carmen wrote: > banshee is even worse, generally freezing up while populating the > library, let alone playing a track. but then amarok freezes > populating the library until i move utf-8/shift-jis dirs out of the > music directory as well.. I had lots of problems with utf-8 and Chinese GB encoded id3 tags in my mp3 files. Even though they were utf-8, lots of the applications still didn't recognize them as such - amarok and rhythmbox all gave me problems with them - I guess because they were not marked specifically as utf-8 in id3v2. I finally went and compiled Easytag 1.99.13 and needed to find a patched libid3 (id3lib) https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/id3lib3.8.3/3.8.3-6 which I build for Ubuntu edgy, since the included id3lib has a nasty Unicode bug. Then I went through and had it fix all the id3 tags. I think it puts in a BOM or marks it as UTF-8 somehow (I really don't understand id3). In a few files I had to tell easytag to read them as GB encoded, and then it wrote them as utf-8. Now everything works great in every application that I use, including iTunes in Windows. (Except XMMS which has always given me problems with non-roman tags, but is still the most reliable and flexible mp3 mplayer I have ever used). I even have a file with Unicode Japanese file name and Japanese id3 tags, and my little iRiver iFP-190TC displayed them with no problems, kanji and all. Easytag is, as far as I'm concerned, the best thing to happen for id3 tags since id3v2, and I am sure happy with utf-8 tags. vic
