[Flac] Tagging Flac-files in GNU/Linux and Windows

[Oskar L.]

> --- "Oskar L." <oskar at rbgi.net> wrote:
>> I am having a lot of problems with tagging FLAC-files. I edited the
>> tags
>> in XMMS (in Linux) using the FLAC plugin, version 1.1.o. Playback
>> worked
>> fine with that setup, but when I played the files on my other
>> computer,
>> again with XMMS, but with version 1.1.1 of the FLAC plugin, the ä and
>> ö
>> characters had changed to some strange characters (I don't remember
>> exactly they were). I then tried editing the tags using the 1.1.1
>> version,
>> but it could not save the ä an ö characters, it immediately changed
>> them
>> to those strange charachters. I then tried Easytag 1.0, in that the ä
>> and
>> ö characters just disappeared, and were not replaced by anything. In
>> Easytag 1.9 tagging worked, and with that I mean it could read what
>> it had
>> written itself, just like the 1.1.0 version of the XMMS plugin. But
>> tags
>> written by Easytag 1.9 were not displayed correctly in using the
>> 1.1.0 or
>> 1.1.1 FLAC plgin. Then I booted Windows and tried editing the tags in
>> Winamp, witch worked, but the tags written were not displayed
>> correctly in
>> XMMS. Easytag 1.0 could not read the tags written by Winamp, but
>> version
>> 1.9 could.
>>
>> This is all very confusing. I don't know what the problem is. As I
>> have
>> understood the tags are saved in UTF-8, so characters like ä and ö
>> can be
>> used in the tags. Witch of those programms are writing the tags
>> incorrectly? Or can the tags be in different formats (I would not
>> think so
>> if they should be in UTF-8)? Or perhaps the problem is not in the
>> programs
>> writing the tags incorrectly, but reading them the wrong way?
>
> this is hard to debug remotely.  tags are stored internally in
> utf-8 but there are many possible places between a tagger
> interface and libFLAC where things can go wrong.  one known
> problem is that flac/metaflac use set_locale to try and match
> the user's locale so that tags coming in on the command line
> will be converted correctly, but I don't know if that works
> on windows.

I noticed that the default settings for the XMMS plugin was not correct,
at least not for my system. I configured the plugin so that the characters
are converted from  UFT-8 to ISO-8859-1, and this way it writes the tags
correctly (in UTF-8).

Oskar