Advise for making my tags work in Windows

[Jeremy Gregorio]

Thanks, that is tremendously helpful, especially the unicode stuff. One
last question, is there an easy way to tell tag lib I want an id3v2.3 tag
instead of a 2.4 tag?

On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 12:01 AM, Lukáš Lalinský <lalinsky at gmail.com> wrote:

> There are two separate issues:
>
>  1) I don't know about Windows 8, but no Microsoft software up to
> Windows 7 can't read ID3v2.4 tags. With TagLib 1.8, you can force it
> to write ID3v2.3 tags, which Windows should be able to read.
>
>  2) You can pass Unicode strings on Windows just fine. You just need
> to use the Unicode API to call the application and to retrieve them.
> See CommandLineToArgvW()/GetCommandLineW().
>
> Here is an example of a hack I do to get UTF-8 parameters on Windows:
>
> https://github.com/lalinsky/chromaprint/blob/master/examples/fpcalc.c#L318
>
> Lukas
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 5:25 AM, Jeremy Gregorio
> <jeremy.firefox.addon at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >     I'm using the Poco C++ library to make what I hope are UTF 8 and/or
> 16 strings. I'm doing this because I want to be able to pass unicode
> characters on a Windows command line and in an English copy of Win XP and
> well, that just ain't happening :P. I thought I might get clever and base
> 64 encode the string before passing it, then decode it. This more or less
> works in Linux, but not so well in Windows, where the OS' (admittedly
> crummy) unicode support seems to be hamstringing me.
> >
> >     I took the demo tagwriter app, and added this:
> >
> >     std::string decoded;
> >     std::wstring decoded16;
> >
> >     Poco::URI::decode ( argv[i + 1] , decoded ) ;
> >
> >
> >     Poco::UnicodeConverter::toUTF16(decoded, decoded16);
> >
> >     TagLib::String value ( decoded16 );
> >
> >    TagLib::List<TagLib::FileRef>::Iterator it;
> >       for(it = fileList.begin(); it != fileList.end(); ++it) {
> > ....
> >
> >   Then I build and run this under Linux and copy the mp3 I tagged to
> Windows. I pass it some Japanese encoded as base 64 which Poco seems to
> decode OK. The tag is there, I can even read it in Tag Scanner in Windows,
> but just plain Windows XP won't pick up on the tag in the file properties.
> >
> >    Anyway does anyone have any tips/advise/horror stories on getting
> tags working in Win XP's tagging. I've done it once before calling directly
> to tag lib, but I would like to rely on the command line.
> >
> >   Thanks all!
> >
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