#80 Tagging on command line doesn't work for special characters

[Erik Reckase]

Numerous times I've tried to tag a FLAC rip of 'In Search
Of Sunrise 2 (Mixed by DJ Tiësto)' on the flac command
line:

"D:\Music\EAC\Flac 1.1.0\bin\flac.exe" -V -
T "title=Tantrix" -T "artist=Tastexperience" -T "album=In
Search Of Sunrise 2 (Mixed by DJ Tiësto)" -
T "date=2001" -T "tracknumber=01" -
T "comment=FLAC1.1.0" "D:\VA-2001-In Search Of
Sunrise 2 (Mixed by DJ Tiësto)\01-Tastexperience-
Tantrix.wav"

But when I look at the Album tag in the Winamp plugin,
it says

'In Search Of Sunrise 2 (Mixed by DJ TiĂŤsto)'

What's going wrong here?

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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I think the problem is in the xmms-plugin, rather than the flac
program itself. Try to list the tags from the command line
also. (metaflac --list <file>).

cheers!

Daniel

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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It looks as if the command line is putting in the proper
UTF-8 byte sequences, but the Winamp plugin is screwing up
and displaying the bytes in (presumably) iso-8859-1. If it
looks OK in foobar2000 (http://www.foobar2000.org/), then
blame the Winamp plugin and file a bug against it because it
can't display UTF-8 properly.

For what it's worth, XMMS can't handle UTF-8 properly unless
you've sacrified a goat beforehand, either.

Nathan Sharfi

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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Same problem here, it gets really annoying with Bjrk albums :-/
metaflac --list shows the same (every ISO-8859-1 character
is replaced by #), so I do think the problem lies somewhere
in metaflac...

skamp

[Sean Andrews]

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I've noticed this myself ... and there's two solutions and
neither work. use tag.exe to read back the tag ... if the
character is not displayed properly there, then it's wrong
completely. i use the win2dos.exe that's supplied to
convert the character in a text file (i put the title in a
txt document and then pass it to win2dos). the character
will probably be just a rectangle, but use that. when you
read back the tag on the command line, it will be displayed
properly ... what it boils down to is the winamp plugin
doesn't read it properly.

[Josh Coalson]

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flac.exe is not locale aware. in the meantime, until it
is fixed, you can edit the tags with metaflac which should
work, unless this is a shell problem.

Josh

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Any idea when it may get fixed? I've now decided to move
from APE to FLAC and have a lot of artists with special
characters in their names? It is a bit more than an
annoyance, especially when I'm trying to convince others
that FLAC is a better option than Monkey's Audio.

Same Guy

[Josh Coalson]

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it's on the list for the next release and it's a pretty
simple fix, but the next release date is not set yet.

Josh

[John Stimson]

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Under Linux:
Either flac or metaflac is converting ASCII 212 into '#'. I
have written a perl script that calls flac and uses the -T
flag to add a TITLE tag which includes ASCII 212. When I
use metaflac to read the TITLE tag back out, I get # instead
of ASCII 212.

I will be able to check the tag this evening with another
tagging program (mediatagger for Windows) to see if the
problem is in flac storing the tag, or in metaflac reading
it back.

I had a separate issue with ASCII 212 getting translated
into "`e" (backquote e) when CDex calls flac.exe under
windows, but that probably is a problem with CDex, not flac.exe.

[John Stimson]

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Note: I'm using FLAC 1.1.1

[Josh Coalson]

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