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

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

[Andrew Gaydenko]

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

[Aleksey V. Kunitskiy]

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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

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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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