MP3 tags problems

befortin · Apprentice Joined: 10 Feb 2004 Posts: 193

I've just spent all the day changing tags on my MP3s with JuK. Now, when I open them with XMMS, I get some strange ID3s. For example, instead of "Radiohead - Amnesiac - Knives Out", I get "DOED - NSA - IE U" and instead of "Radiohead - Amnesiac - Hunting bears", I get "DOED - NSA - NIGBAS".

I have the same problem on my other Gentoo box with XMMS running, but I don't have this problem with winamp on Windows.

XMMS is up to date... Anyone has an idea??

drjimmy42 · Guru Joined: 03 Feb 2003 Posts: 512 Location: Nashua, NH

Could be an encoding issue. See if you are using the same character encoding in Juk and xmms.

John

befortin · Apprentice Joined: 10 Feb 2004 Posts: 193

I tried the different encodings in XMMS (UTF-8, CP866, CP1251, KOI8-R, default) and different fonts. Il still doesn't works. When I go in "View file info", it shows the good ID3s.

What else could I try??

drjimmy42 · Guru Joined: 03 Feb 2003 Posts: 512 Location: Nashua, NH

That was my only idea. Sorry. Try the xmms mailing list or something. Better chance that someone has run into this before.

Good Luck.

Peach · Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2004 12:21 pm Post subject:

try to use Cantus, I've got no problems in tagging mp3 with it, and see if it works for you too...
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Peach · Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2004 12:25 pm Post subject:

try to take a look at this:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=146854

hope this is not the same problem you've got
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drjimmy42 · Guru Joined: 03 Feb 2003 Posts: 512 Location: Nashua, NH

along that lines, I usually use easytag for tagging, but if that thread describes your problem, it may not matter how you tag it.

However, I use xmms all the time and most of my tags are id3v2 and I've never seen that problem. Whacky. Maybe my files also have id3v1 tags and I just don't know it.... most taggers can be set up to do both at the same time. That might solve your problem.

befortin · Apprentice Joined: 10 Feb 2004 Posts: 193

I had to disable ID3v2 tags. Thanks Peach, I've searched on Google and on the forum, and I didn't saw that post.

drjimmy, I'll try easytag tonight. Thanks for your help!