[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 Michael Shigorin  2005-01-26 03:21 -------
2 Benjamin: err... "teaching people in a hard way" may work if it isn't really
lot of people and an awful lot of a hard way ahead -- I've exchanged several
emails with grip author and maintainers of freedb.org on a similar topic.

It all started as quite similar patches for grip to handle potentially different
encodings of freedb data, ID3s and filesystem where the filenames get stored. 
The problem was they broke with grip being modified to comply with freedb's
policy.  The latter was fine in theory but in practice there's an awful lot of
"latin1" information there which is really in e.g. windows-1251 charset.  In
fact, any cyrillic sample I could find was exactly that, filed in by some
non-compliant Windows software.

So please postpone your pedagogical talent till the time when it can be fruitful
-- this one isn't.  We have an ugly ignorant legacy problem, and it's not going
to fade away anytime soon by itself.  You're basically saying "hey use LaTeX" to
a secretary which doesn't know what Windows is -- all she knows is "Word". 
Prudent people at Star Division invented another way around this problem. :)

Sorry for the lengthy rant but the issue (and accompanying bugs and
troubleshooting) have annoyed me quite a bit to maintain Packages That Work and
not bother to update them if they break or even look at another e.g. players. 
People tend to follow the advice, too :)

---

Recapping: I can attach current patch in our grip package, and here's link to
another one applied to our xmms package (I happen to maintain both):

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/rusxmms/xmms-1.2.10-recode-csa27.4.tar.bz2?download
(project site: http://rusxmms.sourceforge.net)

-- 
WBR, Mike

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