Hello all, I'm new to the list. I have been using flac to archive my entire CD collection. I think this will take approx. 80 GB (hopefully - that's all the space I've got for now). 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. Is there any way around this issue? Or are these special characters not supported yet. And if the later, are there plans to support this? Any info on this would be helpfull. Thanks, Brent
Hello Brent, Tuesday, October 15, 2002, 11:03:19 PM, you wrote: BB> I'm having an issue, however, with non-English CD's which contain BB> characters with accents or other markings. These seem to show up as #'s BB> in the meta information. This is frustrating my archiving efforts since BB> the accuracy of file information is lost. Technically, vorbis comment is UTF-8 by specification. I'm not quite sure how are you using them. But it may be that either the tagging application doesn't support UTF-8 or the reading application is either broken or simply doesn't have the glyphs for rendering the coded characters. BB> Is there any way around this issue? Or are these special characters not BB> supported yet. And if the later, are there plans to support this? UTF supports as many characters as possible on PC. It may be a limitation of the application, thou. BB> Any info on this would be helpfull. BB> Thanks, BB> Brent
--- Brent Bowman <bbowman@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 __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos & More http://faith.yahoo.com