> --- "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.
I noticed that the default settings for the XMMS plugin was not correct, at least not for my system. I configured the plugin so that the characters are converted from UFT-8 to ISO-8859-1, and this way it writes the tags correctly (in UTF-8). Oskar _______________________________________________ Flac mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac
