Editing ID3 tags of mp3's

[Dotan Cohen]

On 5/13/06, Tez <binary_y2k2 at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> Dotan Cohen wrote:
>
> > What program can I use to automatically edit the ID3 tags of an mp3
> > collection based upon the file names? I have tried EasyTag but it does
> > not support the UTF-8 that I need because my file names are in Hebrew.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Dotan Cohen
> > http://auto-car.info
>
> First let me say I'm not an expert on ID3 tags, but I have been working
> on converting some audio types recently so I have had to look up a few
> things. There are different versions of ID3 tags and they work with
> different encodings, i.e. ISO-8859-1, UTF-16 and UTF-8. And UTF-8
> olny works with **ID3v2.4. After a bit-o-googleing I found a message
> relateing to your problem:
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/muine-list/2004-June/msg00086.html
>
> But as far as i can see you have to use a hex editor to change some
> bytes to a different value.
>
> At least this gives you an idea of what the problem is.
>
> Terence Simpson
>

Thanks for the tip. I do believe that I have version 2.3 tags as
Amarok can tag them properly. Might Amarok be changing the tag type? I
will look into the issue more. Thanks.

Dotan Cohen
http://what-is-what.com