Question about taglib abilities

[Антон Сергунов]

windows cp1250 or cp1252 for german

2012/7/15 Christian Convey <christian.convey at gmail.com>

> Thanks very much, that's a big help.
>
> Do you happen to know if it's common for MP3 tagging software to use
> character encodings *other than* the five valid ID3v2 encodings
> (latin1, UTF16, UTF16BE, UTF16LE, and UTF8) ?
>
> I'm trying to anticipate how many different character encodings I'll
> have to try out when debugging this MP3 file.
>
> Thanks,
> Christian
>
> On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 11:27 AM, Антон Сергунов <setosha at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > TagLib doesn't convert strings. It read encoding (String::Type) and raw
> data
> > (ByteArray) from file.
> > You can then perform conversion with String::toWString() but before it
> > contains raw byte data from file.
> >
> > But I can't find function to get type enum here.
> > So you can get raw data with String::data(Type t)
> >
> >
> > 2012/7/15 Christian Convey <christian.convey at gmail.com>
> >>
> >> Thanks.  But this is actually a podcast run by someone else:
> >> http://www.dw.de/dw/0,,2548,00.html
> >>
> >> So actually fixing the problem is outside of my power.  What I'd like
> >> to do is research the problem with their mp3 files carefully, so that
> >> I can tell them precisely with the problem is.
> >>
> >> (For example, "Your mp3 tagging software is claiming that the text is
> >> encoded using UTF-8, but it's actually UTF-16.")
> >>
> >> On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Антон Сергунов <setosha at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >> > Most common id3 encoding problem is using local 8bit win encoding in
> >> > Latin1
> >> > fields. You can use special Latin1 handler or (better works for me) if
> >> > string is in Latin1 convert it to local 8 bit windows encoding.
> >> >
> >> > 15.07.2012 21:35 пользователь "Christian Convey"
> >> > <christian.convey at gmail.com> написал:
> >> >>
> >> >> I'm new to ID3 tag handling.  Can you tell me if taglib can be used
> to
> >> >> solve a particular problem?
> >> >>
> >> >> I have MP3 files frm a podcast, and I suspect that there's an
> >> >> inconsistency between the actual encoding of the ID3v2.2 Title field,
> >> >> and the byte that states what encoding is used for that string.
> >> >>
> >> >> Can taglib tell me which encoding the file *claims* to have for that
> >> >> field?
> >> >>
> >> >> And can I get taglib to give me the bytes in the ID3v2.2 Title field
> >> >> *without* taglib automatically performing some kind of
> >> >> character-encoding translation?
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