Hello

A few months ago I made a bug report about Rhythmbox on Ubuntu bug tracker
here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rhythmbox/+bug/703697 time
passed and I received no answer the bug is still unrecognized and
unassigned. The bug report claimed that Rhythmbox was failing to recognize
Unicode Japanase character from ID3 tags, the bug report was inaccurate in
fact the problem is not Rhythmbox failing to recognize Unicode characters it
is just a peculiar behavior among media players.

I have some Japanese music which off course had Japanese characters on the
ID3 tag information of the Mp3 Files but Rhytmbox always displayed them
wrong, some characters where represented like boxes with little numbers in
them (like unrecognized characters). It didn't matter how many times I
tagged and re-tagged the Mp3s even from within Rhytmbox the characters kept
displaying wrong in Rhythmbox.

I tried to open those Mp3 files in all the media players I had, Winamp,
Windows Media Player, VLC Player (Linux and Windows), iTunes (on
Machintosh), Amarok, Songbird and Cowbell (is not a media player but an ID3
tagger) and in all of them the characters where displayed correctly the only
other player that shared the same awkward behavior was Banshee. I couldn't
understand why these two player had the same issue I guessed that maybe they
were sharing the same ID3 Tag library.

I found by accident the cause of all this. When trying to re tag the songs
(like for the 100th time) in an attempt to make Rhythmbox read the tags
correctly I tried to totally remove all the tags using Winamp i removed the
ID3 v1 tag and then I removed the ID3 v2 tag and then I saved the changes to
the file and surprisingly the wrong displayed characters emerged in Winamp,
I opened the ID3 Tag window once again in Winamp and it showed another ID3
v2 tag there. So, the file had two ID3 v2 tag headers on it (O.o I don't
know why or how they got there).

I removed that other ID3 v2 tag and re-tagged the files, then opened them in
Rhytmbox and at last it displayed the correct characters :D YAY!

So, my guess here is that Rhytmbox and Banshee read the first ID3 Tag header
that they find on the file while most modern media players read the last one
(or maybe read borth and keep the last one they read).

I just wanted developers to know this particular behavior just... in case. I
don't know if you are going to make any changes but anyways I just wanted to
share this information with you.

Sincerely

Sergio
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