Honva;271331 Wrote: > I don't quite understand how flac stores the tags internally. I think that by default, the libFLAC routines perform UTF8 translation on incoming metadata. Vorbis comment tags in flac files are supposed to be UTF8 encoded, but you can stuff virtually anything into a vorbis comment, e.g. the old practice of stuffing album art into a B64 encoded COVERART comment.
If your data is already UTF8 encoded and flac or metaflac utf8 encodes it again, this results in the data being "double encoded" which typically looks like garbage: diacritic marks preceded with random punctuation marks, etc. For myself, as all the metadata I pull together is already UTF8 encoded, I always turn off further UTF8 encoding by flac and metaflac with the --no-utf8-convert arg. -- gharris999 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ gharris999's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=115 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43614 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/beta
