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Bug 639585 - ID3 or ID3v2 tags do not display non-ascii characters properly
ID3 or ID3v2 tags do not display non-ascii characters properly
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Product: banshee
Classification: Other
Component: Metadata
git master
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: 1.x
Assigned To: Banshee Maintainers
Banshee Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-01-15 06:47 UTC by Chow Loong Jin
Modified: 2011-01-30 12:32 UTC
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Description Chow Loong Jin 2011-01-15 06:47:49 UTC 
Originally reported at:
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/675569

Binary package hint: banshee

This looks like reading windows encodings as utf-8, for example, the playlist shows 'Así es el calor' instead of 'Así es el calor'.

Sample file can be found here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/banshee/+bug/675569/+attachment/1776584/+files/Beyonc%C3%A9%20-%20Baby%20boy.mp3
Comment 1 Alexander Kojevnikov 2011-01-30 12:32:33 UTC 
The file is not properly tagged. For example, the TPE1 frame has a flag indicating that it's encoded using iso-8859-1 [1] but it's actually encoded with UTF-8. Relevant bits:

49 44 33 03 00 00 00 00  08 48 54 50 45 31 00 00  00 09 00  ID3......HTPE1.....
00 00 42 65 79 6f 6e 63  c3 a9 54 49 54 32 00 00  00 09 00  ..Beyonc..TIT2.....
 
Closing as NOTABUG. The user needs to re-tag their files using a decent tagger e.g. Picard [2].

[1] http://www.id3.org/id3v2.3.0#head-1a37d4a15deafc294208ccfde950f77e47000bca
[2] http://musicbrainz.org/doc/PicardTagger