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Title: Problems with UTF-16 ID3v2 tags
Post by: int19h on December 11, 2005, 12:32:36 am

I have quite a few files with that here, and MC v11.1.77 is apparently unable to read any of them correctly - all Cyrillic letters in the tags show up as question marks (spaces are displayed right, though). Two other players show the tags correctly: Quod Libet, which tagged the files in the first place, and wxMusik.

I also glanced inside the files with a hex editor, and the tags look spec-compliant, with 0x01 UTF-16 markers in place and little-endian Unicode BOMs (0xFF 0xFE). Anyway, it reads it as UTF-16 alright (since it does display the correct number of characters), it just seems that it gets the character codes wrong somehow (but even then, spaces work... weird).

Title: Re: Problems with UTF-16 ID3v2 tags
Post by: Matt on December 12, 2005, 08:54:28 am

Is it possible the font you're using in MC doesn't support those characters?

Title: Re: Problems with UTF-16 ID3v2 tags
Post by: int19h on December 12, 2005, 11:52:34 am

I am quite sure it's not the font and is, in fact, ID3-specific, because Ogg Vorbis files with Cyrillic tags display just fine in the very same list (and obviously with the same font).

I can send the headers of the MP3 files affected (the first kilobyte should be enough, right?) if you cannot reproduce this.

Title: Re: Problems with UTF-16 ID3v2 tags
Post by: Matt on December 12, 2005, 01:12:15 pm

Quote from: int19h on December 12, 2005, 11:52:34 am

I am quite sure it's not the font and is, in fact, ID3-specific, because Ogg Vorbis files with Cyrillic tags display just fine in the very same list (and obviously with the same font).

I can send the headers of the MP3 files affected (the first kilobyte should be enough, right?) if you cannot reproduce this.

An entire file would be even better.  The address is matt at jriver.com.

Thanks!

Title: Re: Problems with UTF-16 ID3v2 tags
Post by: int19h on December 22, 2005, 10:31:30 pm

I've seen some UTF-related entries in the changelogs and decided to give it a try, in case that was the fix. Well... 11.1.83 still doesn't read the tags correctly.

Title: Re: Problems with UTF-16 ID3v2 tags
Post by: Matt on December 22, 2005, 10:42:28 pm

Please try build 89.

Title: Re: Problems with UTF-16 ID3v2 tags
Post by: int19h on December 23, 2005, 09:16:11 pm

Just did; it still doesn't work.

Title: Re: Problems with UTF-16 ID3v2 tags
Post by: Matt on December 23, 2005, 10:59:16 pm

Please send a file that doesn't work as expected to matt @ jriver.com

Thanks.

Title: Re: Problems with UTF-16 ID3v2 tags
Post by: int19h on December 23, 2005, 11:55:44 pm

That would be a few hundred files, including the one I had sent to you in reply to the first request. None still work. I've sent another, different file just in case.