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gaucho66

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UTF tags
« on: November 25, 2013, 06:19:59 pm »
A suggestion for future release could be to have an option under library tools to convert tags in different UTF codes (such as UTF-8)
I am a Greek citizen and i have other programs to do this conversion.


Keep up the good work

EL gaucho
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Re: UTF tags
« Reply #1 on: November 25, 2013, 06:42:37 pm »
Welcome.

Could you help us understand your motivation?

MC, or any other good program, should read any valid tag. 

For ID3v2 (used in MP3, etc.) it's possible for the tag to use a few formats.  From the spec:
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     $00   ISO-8859-1 [ISO-8859-1]. Terminated with $00.
     $01   UTF-16 [UTF-16] encoded Unicode [UNICODE] with BOM. All
           strings in the same frame SHALL have the same byteorder.
           Terminated with $00 00.
     $02   UTF-16BE [UTF-16] encoded Unicode [UNICODE] without BOM.
           Terminated with $00 00.
     $03   UTF-8 [UTF-8] encoded Unicode [UNICODE]. Terminated with $00.

MC supports all, and writes ISO-8859 if possible and UTF-8 when necessary (because there are characters above 127).
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gaucho66

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Re: UTF tags
« Reply #2 on: November 26, 2013, 04:41:17 pm »
Some mp3 purchased do not have correct encoding. The program reads but any cd/dvd make for another medium (e.g. car) doesn't show the right words but shows symbols. The solution is to convert to UTF-8 and JRiver would be more comprehensive if could give this feature from within the application.

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