Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] converting FLAC tags from Cp1251 to UTF8

[Andrew Gaydenko]

======= On Tuesday 04 March 2008, Aleksey V. Kunitskiy wrote: =======
> On Tuesday 04 March 2008, Andrew Gaydenko wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > There are many inconsistent records in freedb.org db. I mean when,
> > say, Cp1251 charset is used instead of UTF8. Say, I have written
> > these invalid tags to flac files (with easytag or entagged). How to
> > repair tags to make them visible as something useful (i.e. to UTF8)
> > insteaf of abracadabra (i.e. from Cp1251)?
> >
> >
> > Andrew
>
> You can try to export tags from flac, then iconv them and after all
> import it back. Will look like this:
>
> 1. metaflac --export-tags-to=~/some_file.tags --no-utf8-convert
> track.flac 2. iconv -f cp-1251 -t utf-8 ~/some_file.tags >
> ~/some_file_fixed.tags 3. metaflac --remove-all-tags track.flac
> 4. metaflac --import-tags-from=~/some_file_fixed.tags
> --no-utf8-convert track.flac
>
> HTH


Aleksey, 

Aha, I see the idea, thanks!!


Andrew
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