GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 320188
[id3demux] support for non-unicode strings in unicode string tags
Last modified: 2007-04-11 21:12:29 UTC
Here's a file with an ID3v2 tag where we don't extract the artist/title/album tags correctly. The tags in question are in Hebrew. The reason seems to be that those tags are stored as unicode strings (UCS4), but the 32-bit code points then don't refer to unicode code points but are actually code points in the ISO-8859-8 (CP1255) character table .... The artist string is supposed to look like this (I hope this works, is supposed to be in Hebrew): אג'אר - די נמאס לי This is just so horribly broken and wrong I have no words for it, but allegedly there are lots of these files around (and winamp allegedly displays it fine too). What to do? Yet another magic environment variable and then hope someone writes a retagger to convert all those broken tags into unicode one day? Cheers -Tim
Created attachment 54056 [details] ajar_day_nimas_li.mp3.head
This is silly. It's a completely broken tag, there's no way we can automatically recognise this case, so the file needs to be retagged according to spec.
*** Bug 428689 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***