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how to enter unicode data in the ID3 tag
Posted by liviaa on March 30, 2003 at 23:02:35:
Hi everyone,
I tried to enter Chinese characters in the ID3 tag of a MP3 file because I understand that ID3v2 supports Unicode. I did this through WinAmp and I wrote a program to read the binary data of the MP3 file byte by byte out to another text file in order for me to examine how the ID3v2 Tag data has been stored.
From the ID3v2 specs, I understand that there is a text encoding description byte, which will indicate whether the data in that particular frame is in Unicode encoding. However, although I have entered Chinese characters in the ID3 tag of the MP3 file through WinAmp, I found the text encoding description byte does not indicate this and is still at $00, which means that the text is in ISO-8859-1 encoding, and will result in garbage characters to be displayed if the Chinese editor software is not executed in the background.
Can anyone give me some guidance on which ID3 tagger is there available, which will allow me to embed Unicode data correctly into the ID3 tags of MP3 files.
