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5 Unicode IDV2 tags - ID: 1371337

Last Update: Comment added ( shaddybaddah )

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Hi,

This patch is useful to me, and I hope my suspicions of
it being useful to the wider community, are correct.

The patch adds proper support for Unicode ID3v2 tags,
used in rips to MP3 of course.

Generally, it fixes the quite dated ID3Lib included in
the project, so that unicode text fields can be
rendered into the ID3v2 tags.

Specifically, I have utilised these capabilities to
allow for Unicode text for a tracks title, artist and
album title field. The Unicode form of the text fields
are only used where non-ASCII characters are detected.

I will try to include both the unified diff patch, and
the 2005-11-09 dated version of the original source
from CVS. The latter is for verification, in case CVS
has changed (or there are unsubmitted check-in's).

I grant permission for free usage of the patch as per
the conventions and terms of the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC
LICENSE Version 2, June 1991, that applies to the CDEX
project itself.

Regards,
Shaddy

Submitted:

Shaddy Baddah ( shaddybaddah ) - 2005-12-02 00:12

Priority:

Status:

Closed

Resolution:

None

Assigned:

Albert L Faber

Category:

None

Group:

None

Visibility:

Public

Comments ( 2 )

Date: 2006-06-06 01:20 Sender: shaddybaddah Logged In: YES user_id=133042 I am delighted to have noticed that this patch has been considered good enough to merge in CVS. I hope it is useful to the CDEX community. my FYI, tmotivation for making the patch was to allow proper usage of Unicode IDV2 tags in Microsoft Windows Media Player, which has good support of them. There should be other players out there that do the right thing in this regard to. One of the more popular shareware ones however, does not do a good job on this presently. Other techniques for non-latin1 IDV2 tags include using local encodings (e.g. big5), however the ID tags do not store any enconding details. So unless your system was set with a matched encoding as default, then your player could not display or manipulate the tags.
Date: 2005-12-02 00:49 Sender: shaddybaddah Logged In: YES user_id=133042 I neglected to mention that I am really thankful to the authors and maintainers of this project. Thank you for CDEX. I'm sorry, I cannot attach that reference file, as it is too big. However, I am sure a cvs export -D 2005-11-09 should obtain the right reference source.

Date: 2006-06-06 01:20
Sender: shaddybaddah

Logged In: YES
user_id=133042

I am delighted to have noticed that this patch has been
considered good enough to merge in CVS. I hope it is useful
to the CDEX community.

my FYI, tmotivation for making the patch was to allow proper
usage of Unicode IDV2 tags in Microsoft Windows Media
Player, which has good support of them. There should be
other players out there that do the right thing in this
regard to. One of the more popular shareware ones however,
does not do a good job on this presently.

Other techniques for non-latin1 IDV2 tags include using
local encodings (e.g. big5), however the ID tags do not
store any enconding details. So unless your system was set
with a matched encoding as default, then your player could
not display or manipulate the tags.

Date: 2005-12-02 00:49
Sender: shaddybaddah

Logged In: YES
user_id=133042

I neglected to mention that I am really thankful to the
authors and maintainers of this project. Thank you for CDEX.

I'm sorry, I cannot attach that reference file, as it is too
big. However, I am sure a cvs export -D 2005-11-09 should
obtain the right reference source.

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Filename	Description	Download
cdex_cvs20051109_to_160b1uniID3v2patch.diff.gz	The unified diff against CVS 2005-11-09	Download

Changes ( 4 )

Field	Old Value	Date	By
status_id	Open	2006-05-30 20:30	afaber
assigned_to	nobody	2006-05-30 20:30	afaber
close_date	-	2006-05-30 20:30	afaber
File Added	158319: cdex_cvs20051109_to_160b1uniID3v2patch.diff.gz	2005-12-02 00:12	shaddybaddah

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