[Flac-users] New to the list

Josh Coalson xflac at yahoo.com
Wed Oct 16 17:44:02 PDT 2002


closure... he didn't cc the list so I'm forwarding it:

--- Brent Bowman <bbowman at vistacraft.com> wrote:
> From: "Brent Bowman" <bbowman at vistacraft.com>
> Subject: RE: Re: [Flac-users] New to the list
> Date: 16 Oct 2002 11:38:46 -0700
> 
> 
> Thanks all for your replies.  It turns out that this is a false
> alarm and the error is actually in my perl script that runs metaflac.
>  It is sending a bad sequenc of characters for each one of those
> special chars.  I'll have to look deeper when I get home from
> work.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Brent
> 
> 
> >--- Original Message ---
> >From: Josh Coalson <xflac at yahoo.com>
> >To: Brent Bowman <bbowman at vistacraft.com>,
> flac-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> >Date: 10/16/02 5:35:32 AM
> >
> 
> >--- Brent Bowman <bbowman at vistacraft.com> wrote:
> >>  Anyway, I've been making my own tags with MetaFlac since
> I didn't
> >> find 
> >> any default ones (for Artist, Album, Track Title, etc.)  I've
> been 
> >> putting them in Vorbis Comments which seems to be the easiest
> method
> >> to 
> >> manipulate and retrieve the data with other scripts.
> >> 
> >> I'm having an issue, however, with non-English CD's which
> contain 
> >> characters with accents or other markings.  These seem to
> show up as
> >> #'s 
> >> in the meta information.  This is frustrating my archiving
> efforts
> >> since 
> >> the accuracy of file information is lost.
> >
> >When you tag with metaflac, it converts the comments from the
> >local charset to UTF-8 (unless you use the --no-utf8-convert
> >option).  The problem could either be in the conversion
> >process while tagging, or the displaying process; there's
> >not enough info in your initial report to tell.  First I
> >should ask, where do the #s show up?  In metaflac --list, in
> >the plugin, in ... ?
> >
> >Also, if you are familiar with UTF-8 you should be able to
> >tell if the problem is in the actual tagging like so:
> >
> >1. create flac file
> >2. add a vorbis comment like 'test=zzz<funnychar>zzz' making
> >   sure <funnychar> is not ASCII
> >3. use hexedit to edit the flac file.  search for zzz and see
> >   what <funnychar> turned out to be; is it a '#' or the true
> >   UTF-8 code for <funnychar>?
> >
> >Josh



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