Bugzilla – Bug 1084
Problem with accented characters in id3 tags on FLAC files
Last modified: 2005-03-14 19:40:12 UTC
SlimServer Version: 6.0b1 - r2461 / slimserver-2005_03_14-1.noarch.rpm Accented characters in id3 tags on FLAC files do not show properly when browsing Artists on the web interface and also on the Squeezebox. Instead of 'C�line Dion', I only get 'C'. For example: [nmizel@sirius The Colour Of My Love]$ id3v2 -l 01.flac id3v2 tag info for 01.flac: TIT2 (Title/songname/content description): The Power Of Love TPE1 (Lead performer(s)/Soloist(s)): C�line Dion TALB (Album/Movie/Show title): The Colour Of My Love TYER (Year): 1993 TRCK (Track number/Position in set): 1 TCON (Content type): Pop (13) sows as: Title: The Power Of Love Artist: C Album: The Colour Of My Love Genre: Pop Track: 1 File Format: FLAC Duration: 5:43 Year: 1993 File Length: 38,881,152 Bytes Bitrate: 905kbps CBR ID3 Tag Version: ID3v2.3.0 Location: file:///music/Celine Dion/The Colour Of My Love/01.flac (Download) Date Modified: Sunday, November 28, 2004, 19:45:18 mp3 files with accented characters looks fine.
SlimServer does not support ID3 tags in FLAC files. They are ignored. Please use Vorbis tags for FLAC files, which are required to be encoded in UTF-8
Ok. I'm writing a script to convert all my id3v2 tags to vorbis comments for my flac files (a few thousands...). I knew that the proper way (and actually the only supported way) to tag flac files was vorbis comments, but id3v2 was working fine until 5.4.1.