--- "Oskar L." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am having a lot of problems with tagging FLAC-files. I edited the > tags > in XMMS (in Linux) using the FLAC plugin, version 1.1.o. Playback > worked > fine with that setup, but when I played the files on my other > computer, > again with XMMS, but with version 1.1.1 of the FLAC plugin, the � and > � > characters had changed to some strange characters (I don't remember > exactly they were). I then tried editing the tags using the 1.1.1 > version, > but it could not save the � an � characters, it immediately changed > them > to those strange charachters. I then tried Easytag 1.0, in that the � > and > � characters just disappeared, and were not replaced by anything. In > Easytag 1.9 tagging worked, and with that I mean it could read what > it had > written itself, just like the 1.1.0 version of the XMMS plugin. But > tags > written by Easytag 1.9 were not displayed correctly in using the > 1.1.0 or > 1.1.1 FLAC plgin. Then I booted Windows and tried editing the tags in > Winamp, witch worked, but the tags written were not displayed > correctly in > XMMS. Easytag 1.0 could not read the tags written by Winamp, but > version > 1.9 could. > > This is all very confusing. I don't know what the problem is. As I > have > understood the tags are saved in UTF-8, so characters like � and � > can be > used in the tags. Witch of those programms are writing the tags > incorrectly? Or can the tags be in different formats (I would not > think so > if they should be in UTF-8)? Or perhaps the problem is not in the > programs > writing the tags incorrectly, but reading them the wrong way?
this is hard to debug remotely. tags are stored internally in utf-8 but there are many possible places between a tagger interface and libFLAC where things can go wrong. one known problem is that flac/metaflac use set_locale to try and match the user's locale so that tags coming in on the command line will be converted correctly, but I don't know if that works on windows. > And then another question; when encoding from the command line, is > there > any way to set the name of the file to be the TITLE tag (in GNU/Linux > or > Winows)? I remember using some program (CDex?), in witch you could > write > something like %1 in the title-field, and it would then encode the > file > (Ogg Vorbis), writing the filename as the title. Is that possible > from the > command line with FLAC? no. this is probably a job best left to a tagging program. Josh __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Flac mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac
