https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=814814 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=814814#c50 --- Comment #50 from Suren Chilingaryan <csa@dside.dyndns.org> 2013-04-24 20:57:23 UTC --- The problem is that the specification was faulty and had left most of the world without any option to store their tags. Obviously, some chaos and, then, standard de facto had emerged. You cant blame people for it, there was no way to be complient to the specification. Now we cant change the reality and behavior of Windows users. We only can deny reality and make life of Linux-users complicated or accept it and make it easy. I mean there is no problem for me. I can recode everything or to just patch the taglib myself. But there is a horde of people who has no clue about encodings. They just see that the music they downloaded from Internet got from a friend is not displayed properly and they have no clue why. On the friends PC running Windows there is no problems... And of course there is uses when it is helpful even if you are know about encodings and Unicode. I believe that modern players from respectable brands are all supporting ID3 v.2. But I personally have a simple USB flash/MP3 player combo and it is not working with it. There is still lots of such devices. And there are lots of cases when online recoding is helpful. Your frined who is using Windows and dont care about specification is comming with his hard drive with a lots of music and you just want to quickly see what he has without doing prior recoding whatever. The file sharing is also quite often in ID3 v.1 only. Even for recoding, the RusXMMS patches are helpful. Quite often people are bringing the stuff in some horible mix of encodings. Some files are using CP1251, others - KOI8-R. I have seen UTF8 in ID3 v.1 tags. With encoding autodetection, you will recode everything automatically. Im just running tagwriter over all files in the collection. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.