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+--Forum: Mp3/Tag Studio Support and Bug Reports
+---Topic: UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1 started by wibbly
Posted by: Guest on Feb. 11 2007,23:54
I have used Foobar to create ReplayGain tags in my MP3's but it has also rewitten tags in UTF-8 format, which my other MP3 software does not like.
Is there a way I can mass convert all my MP3 file tags from UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1? (I currently have 3.5 beta 17 installed)
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Posted by: Magnus Brading on Feb. 14 2007,00:07
Do the tag contents display correctly in Mp3/Tag Studio? E.g. in the browse tool?
Posted by: Guest on Feb. 14 2007,06:59
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Do the tag contents display correctly in Mp3/Tag Studio? E.g. in the browse tool?
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Yes, but they do not in another piece of software, which is why I want to convert the tags.
Posted by: Magnus Brading on Feb. 14 2007,23:44
No problem, then simply e.g. do a sweep with the Direct Tag Manipulation tool, with a single no-operation like:
"<Artist>" ----> "<Artist>"
This will cause the entire tag to be rewritten, and thus translated back to ISO-8859-1. You can of course record this operation into a macro too, to access this functionality at the click of a single button in Mp3/Tag Studio.
Posted by: Guest on Feb. 15 2007,06:49
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Thanks, I will try that. MP3TagStudio delivers again ;-)
Posted by: starkat on Feb. 20 2007,02:29
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No problem, then simply e.g. do a sweep with the Direct Tag Manipulation tool, with a single no-operation like:
"<Artist>" ----> "<Artist>"
This will cause the entire tag to be rewritten, and thus translated back to ISO-8859-1. You can of course record this operation into a macro too, to access this functionality at the click of a single button in Mp3/Tag Studio.
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You have no idea how happy you have made me in posting this!
Let me give the landscape:
I have a collection of mp3 files that spans over 50 genres, literally thousands of artists, and the entire collection is about 2.5 terabytes. I keep a very well-organized collection, it's arranged as genre/artist/year - album/ as in the beginning this was the only way to keep my album organized.
For a very long time I would play songs from my collection as one-offs (browsing to the song) or through playlists. I didn't have any music management software at all (and didn't really believe in it).
Anyways, I recently decided to make my collection mobile. I built a mini-itx computer with an array of hard drives, and a wireless card that automatically keeps the collection synced with that on my main fileserver in my home. I found a web-based front-end called Jinzora that manages my collection rather nicely, but unfortunately this is where the problems come in:
Most of my collection (about 70%) included unicode tags. This never was a problem before now, but Jinzora sadly, is incompatable with unicode tags, so I had a real problem. For weeks I've used a combination of mp3 tag studio and another program to convert my tags back to ascii and include album art, lyrics and album/artist "liner notes". I've struggled with weeks to get the unicode stripped out, and have had nothing but frustration and headache.
That is, until I saw this post. I immediately gave it a shot, set it to sweep all the basic tags: genre, artist, name, and comments. It took about 15 minutes to sweep the entire collection. Then with great anticipation, I truncated my database, and re-read the collection. WOW! The problem has been fixed. and not just fixed, but fixed perfectly.
I'm registering MP3 Tag Studio right now. The software, for me, is worth every blessed penny.
Posted by: Magnus Brading on Feb. 20 2007,23:47
Hehe, I'm glad you like Mp3/Tag Studio, and that it could help you out.
And thanks for registering of course!
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