Re: Any KDE way of reencoding id3 tags?

[Arthur Marsh <arthur.marsh@internode.on.net>]

Christoph Burgmer wrote, On 2006-11-02 05:55:
> Hi list,
>
> I'm living in the 21st century and just can't understand why my 
> favourite software isn't able to display the id3 tags given to my mp3s. 
> Support of multiple languages is something not only nice to have but 
> something obligatory. Long story short: I can't work with my mp3s 
> encoded in gbk*. Amarok developers aren't willing to support a method of 
> specifying the encoding, so I end up with nothing but a hint to use 
> easytag to convert them manually. easytag though again is ranting about 
> some buggy version of "id3lib" and I am not willing to apply a patch.
> Is there any help for somebody in a situation like this?
>
> Thanks for any hints
> Christoph Burgmer

What is gbk* ?

Although it is GTK+ based, exfalso seemed to be the best tag editor I 
could find in Debian unstable. I haven't done batch conversions although 
they appear to be supported - my needs were more along the line of utf-8 
support.

Arthur.