Hello Guys,
I eventually answered my own question. So, for those of you evolving in a mixed Windows (Media Center) and Linux environment (I wish I'm not the only one
), here is what I came to:
1. Use AmaroK media player under Linux, which allows to deal with ID3 tags on the ISO-8859-1 encoding basis (look in the application settings)
2. Use a script to convert ID3 tags from UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1 when encoding. Follows an example for LAME :
#!/bin/sh
# Check command line
[ $# -lt 7 ] && echo "USAGE: $0 <src> <dst> <ta[artist]> <tl[albumtitle]> <ty[year]> <tt[title]> <tn[number]>" && exit
# Retrieve arguments
VERSION=`lame --version | head -n 1`
SRC=$1
DST=$2
TA=`echo $3 | iconv -f UTF-8 -t ISO-8859-1`
TL=`echo $4 | iconv -f UTF-8 -t ISO-8859-1`
TY=`echo $5 | iconv -f UTF-8 -t ISO-8859-1`
TT=`echo $6 | iconv -f UTF-8 -t ISO-8859-1`
TN=`echo $7 | iconv -f UTF-8 -t ISO-8859-1`
# Launch LAME
lame --preset extreme --tc "Encoded: ${VERSION} --preset extreme" --ta "${TA}" --tl "${TL}" --ty "${TY}" --tt "${TT}" --tn "${TN}" "${SRC}" "${DST}"
Hope this helps some of you out there