Encoding of ID3 tags in mp3s

[Florian Lindner]

Am Dienstag, 11. Juli 2006 21:14 schrieb Dotan Cohen:
> On 11/07/06, Florian Lindner <mailinglists at xgm.de> wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I use the audiocd kioslave to rip CDs and encode to mp3.
> > The filenames are taken from the CDDB and appear to be enocded correctly.
> > (for example the accents in the spanish versiion of Shakira - Fijacion
> > Oral). But the ID3 tags seem to have a problem with the encoding, amarok
> > and my iPod nano for example show titles that look like that:  Escondite
> > inglĂ(c)s
> >
> > id3info shows correct title on the command line:
> >
> > florian at horus ~/Desktop/Musik/Lieder/Shakira/Shakira - Fijacion Oral $
> > id3info Shakira\ -\ Escondite\ inglés.mp3
> >
> > *** Tag information for Shakira - Escondite inglés.mp3
> > === TSSE (Software/Hardware and settings used for encoding): LAME v3.96.1
> > === TIT2 (Title/songname/content description): Escondite inglés
> > === TPE1 (Lead performer(s)/Soloist(s)): Shakira
> > === TALB (Album/Movie/Show title): Fijación Oral, Vol. 1 [DualDisc]
> > === TYER (Year): 2005
> > === TRCK (Track number/Position in set): 6
> > === TCON (Content type): (13)
> > *** mp3 info
> > MPEG1/layer III
> > Bitrate: 192KBps
> > Frequency: 44KHz
> >
> > My locale is:
> >
> > LANG = de_DE.UTF-8
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Florian
>
> Check that you're using ID3 v2.4 and not v2.3 tags. I have had a lot
> of trouble with UTF-8 characters that aren't in ascii in v2.3 tags. It
> appears that v2.3 does not support UTF-8.

How can I check that? I've seen no option like that in the Kontrolcenter for 
the audiocd kioslave.

Florian
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