On Monday 16 August 2010 05:55:33 Arie Skliarouk wrote: > Hi, > > There are different encodings used to put hebrew into ID3 tags of MP3 > files: * > The ID3 Tags contained in your MP3 files can be one of the following: > ID3v1, ID3v2.3 or ID3v2.4 which use different character set encoding. > ID3v1 specifies no specific character coding and has a limited number of > fields with very limited sizes, and is seldom used these days. > IDv2.3 is the most common standard in use and uses ISO 8859 1 or UTF-16 > character set encoding, here UTF-16 is very common. > IDv2.4 is the latest standard and uses UTF-8 character encoding. > * > All players/firmware combinations support different features. Even > desktop-based linux player (Rhythmbox) can't reliably recognize encoding of > the ID3 tags. Can someone recommend a different music organizing program > (for Linux)? > > Is there a page that explains the topic in detail? > > Don't ID3 have encoding type field? > > How can I mass-change encoding of the hebrew texts in the ID3 fields? >
I saw plenty of ID3-handling programs and libraries on Freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/ There are also some on CPAN: http://search.cpan.org/search?query=id3&mode=all One of them should do the trick. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/ways_to_do_it.html God considered inflicting XSLT as the tenth plague of Egypt, but then decided against it because he thought it would be too evil. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
