[gstreamer-bugs] [Bug 149274] [PATCH] gst-plug mad gets id3v2 text tags in wrong encoding

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 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=149274
 GStreamer | gst-plugins | Ver: 0.8.2





------- Additional Comments From Benjamin Otte  2005-01-25 08:51 -------
If anyone is asking me for an opinion (seems so, since I was added to the cc :)):

These files are broken.

Broken files should be hard but possible to support so there exists a way for
people to get them to work, but it involves some time on their part. Just so
they are annoyed enough that they fix their files.

I also don't want a solution that makes stuff much more complicated just because
of broken files. Adding a libenca dependency makes stuff much more complicated,
especially for packagers.


The best solution I can see is what __tim suggested: use an env var
GST_ID3_TAG_ENCODING. If set (to for example "cp1251"), ID3v1 tags and ID3v2 in
8859-1 tags are tried to be interpreted in that encoding first.
This is only a little more code, makes it possible to read tags and involves
work to get the broken files going.

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