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rittaarier

Free Software's new audio heir apparent

Submitted by Uraeus on Wed, 2004-05-05 06:34. Gnome Multimedia

NewsForge has a nice review of Rhythmbox, the popular GNOME music player and manager. If you don't know Rhythmbox already read the article and maybe it will get you interested in trying it out.

Re: I HATE RHYTHMBOX!

Submitted by Anonymous George on Fri, 2004-05-07 17:04.

bcs, the tag sometime are big5 or utf8.

I use Ogg and FLAC, both of which use the Vorbis comment spec, which says comment fields are always UTF-8. I've never had a problem with it.

If you use MP3, the situation is a bit more complex.

ID3(v1) doesn't seem to have any way to specify what encoding is used, so there's no way for an application to reliably interpret non-ASCII characters.

ID3v2 seems to allow either UCS2 Unicode 2.0 (dates to 1996 -- 8 years and 2 major versions ago) or ISO-8859-1. (ID3v2.4.0 adds UTF-16BE and UTF-8.)

I can't seem to find any way to tag a music file with Big-5 that's allowed under any system. So I'm not surprised that Rhythmbox doesn't handle them well.

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