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Locale problems in 3.5.2

Added by Steve Graham about 10 years ago

When I upgraded from 3.4.x to 3.5.2 (Debian unstable packages) a proportion of my MP3 files showed up with missing tags, where previously they displayed as expected.

On some investigation, it was the MP3s having problems with the character encoding of the tags, and Audacious 3.5 now is more strict. (My locale is "en_IE.UTF-8". Some of the music files are old ones I'd ripped under Windows.) When I looked at the files with various tag editors, they looked fine, since none of the tools concerned itself with the character encodings.

The only tool in the Debian repositories which was able to fix the tags was "eyed3". The following command worked:
$ for f in *.mp3 ; do eyeD3 --to-v2.4 --set-encoding=utf8 --force-update "$f" ; done

I thought I'd leave a message for anyone else perplexed by the new behaviour!


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RE: Locale problems in 3.5.2 - Added by John Lindgren about 10 years ago

You shouldn't have had to do that. There was never any intention of making Audacious "stricter" with regard to character encodings. If anyone else has trouble with tags not displaying in Audacious 3.5, we'd like to hear about it before you go and "fix" all the tags.

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