https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=814814
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=814814#c50
--- Comment #50 from Suren Chilingaryan 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.
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