Does setting those variables as suggested by Tim fix your issue? Tim, do you think that should be close since that's a limitation of Id3v1 and there is no other way than setting the variable?
** Changed in: rhythmbox (Ubuntu) Severity: Normal => Minor Assignee: (unassigned) => Ubuntu Desktop Bugs Status: Unconfirmed => Needs Info -- rhythmbox displays mp3 tags in non utf8 locales as latin-1 https://launchpad.net/bugs/44876 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs