Re: Unicode id3 tag problem.

[Deling Ren <lg@home.homeunix.org>]

Looks like rhythmbox handles it perfectly, although it uses a little  
more resources on this P2 266 laptop :)

Thank you guys a lot. I really wish there is some software on Linux  
as perfect as iTunes.

Deling

On Jun 28, 2005, at 10:35 PM, Ling Li wrote:

> There's a library for id3tag processing named libid3 or something  
> similar,
> and the lib is used by many applications. But it do have some bugs  
> in process
> unicode id3tag. So if you have problem in some programs, it's  
> usually caused
> by the lib.
>
> But in rythmbox, the unicode id3tag is displayed correct, and I use  
> a program
> written in java named id3iconv(0.2.1) to convert id3tag from gb* to  
> unicode.
>
> Ling
>
> * Deling Ren <lg@home.homeunix.org> [2005-06-28 11:33:55 -0700]:
>
>
> > Hi all, I am running beep-media-player and it does not seem to be  
> > able to
> > handle id3 tags in unicode very well.
> >
> > The mp3 files were managed by iTunes on a Mac, the ID3 tags contains
> > Chinese characters and I suppose they are in UNICODE, ID3 tags  
> > v2.4. In
> > beep-media-player, they are all displayed as some gibberish ending  
> > with
> > "(Invalid UTF-8)". I am not sure if I am missing something. Anyone  
> > have
> > clues? Thanks a lot in advance.
> >
> > Deling
> >
> >
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