flac dev - Sep 2004 - using vorbiscomments with metaflac not utf8-encoded

Using metaflac (1.0.3) like this:

metaflac file.flac --set-vc-field=title=test??????e?

The vorbiscomment will not be UTF8-encoded, instead
they will be stored directly as ANSI. 

When trying to add some more comment, it gave the
following error:

ERROR: writing FLAC file file.flac, error FLAC__METADATA_CHAIN_STATUS_OK

Does that mean that weren't enough room for the
comments? But shouldn't it then rewrite the entire
file and perhaps add an extra padding block (I
believe OggVorbis does this).

And, it would be really nice if at least the
Winamp-plugin could display these vorbiscomments. 

Even better if there where a handy tageditor (like
the one for the OggVorbis-plugin).

--- Mattias Dahlberg <mdati00@student.vxu.se>
wrote:
> Using metaflac (1.0.3) like this:
> 
> metaflac file.flac --set-vc-field=title=testÅÄÖåäöeè
> 
> The vorbiscomment will not be UTF8-encoded, instead
> they will be stored directly as ANSI. 
yes, metaflac is currently not doing utf-8 encoding.
the same libutf8 from libvorbis is in the flac source
tree but it's not hooked up yet.
> When trying to add some more comment, it gave the
> following error:
> 
> ERROR: writing FLAC file file.flac, error >
FLAC__METADATA_CHAIN_STATUS_OK
> 
> Does that mean that weren't enough room for the
> comments? But shouldn't it then rewrite the entire
> file and perhaps add an extra padding block (I
> believe OggVorbis does this).
yes, it should rewrite.  you may have found a bug
but there's not enough info for me to tell.  if you
can come up with some reproducible steps for me to
try I can look into it.
> And, it would be really nice if at least the
> Winamp-plugin could display these vorbiscomments. 
> 
> Even better if there where a handy tageditor (like
> the one for the OggVorbis-plugin).
yep, these are all on the TODO list.  but I'll take
patches if anyone wants to volunteer.

Josh


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--- Josh Coalson <xflac@yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- Mattias Dahlberg <mdati00@student.vxu.se> wrote:
> > Using metaflac (1.0.3) like this:
> > 
> > metaflac file.flac --set-vc-field=title=testÅÄÖåäöeè
> > 
> > The vorbiscomment will not be UTF8-encoded, instead
> > they will be stored directly as ANSI. 
> 
> yes, metaflac is currently not doing utf-8 encoding.
> the same libutf8 from libvorbis is in the flac source
> tree but it's not hooked up yet.
OK, I checked in UTF-8 support to metaflac.

Josh


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