Package: gstreamer0.10-plugins-good Version: 0.10.14-2 Severity: normal I noticed that rhythmbox shows correctly decoded tags for for local files, but not for files provided by a mt-daapd server. While analyzing this issue, I saw that most of the tags in my MP3 collection contained garbage: the text had a wrong encoding. Very often, UTF8 text was put into ID3 v2.3 tags. However, ID3 v2.3 doesn't support UTF8, only v2.4 does.
For local files, the broken encoding was magically and silently fixed, I suspect the id3demux plugin is the culprit. This behaviour looks userfriendly at the first place, but the user also doesn't notice that his files contain garbage in the tags (like with german umlauts, or other non-ASCII characters), so there should be at least some warning that broken text in ID3 tags was corrected. This way, the user knows that there is something wrong. In my case, I installed mt-daapd, which handles the ID3 tags and the defined charset according to the specification, and I ended up with broken tags in a lot of files. Regards, Tino -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-rc4-00187-gb4348f3 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages gstreamer0.10-plugins-good depends on: ii gconf2 2.26.0-1 GNOME configuration database syste ii gstreamer0.1 0.10.22-5 GStreamer plugins from the "base" ii libaa1 1.4p5-38 ascii art library ii libavc1394-0 0.5.3-1+b2 control IEEE 1394 audio/video devi ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.5-1 high-quality block-sorting file co ii libc6 2.9-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcaca0 0.99.beta16-1 colour ASCII art library ii libcairo2 1.8.6-2+b1 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.12-1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libdv4 1.0.0-2 software library for DV format dig ii libflac8 1.2.1-1.2 Free Lossless Audio Codec - runtim ii libgcc1 1:4.4.0-3 GCC support library ii libgconf2-4 2.26.0-1 GNOME configuration database syste ii libglib2.0-0 2.20.1-2 The GLib library of C routines ii libgstreamer 0.10.22-5 GStreamer libraries from the "base ii libgstreamer 0.10.22-3 Core GStreamer libraries and eleme ii libgtk2.0-0 2.16.1-2 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libhal1 0.5.12~git20090406.46dc48-2 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share ii libiec61883- 1.2.0-0.1 an partial implementation of IEC 6 ii libjpeg62 6b-14 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG ii liboil0.3 0.3.15-1 Library of Optimized Inner Loops ii libpng12-0 1.2.35-1 PNG library - runtime ii libraw1394-1 2.0.2-2 library for direct access to IEEE ii libshout3 2.2.2-5 MP3/Ogg Vorbis broadcast streaming ii libsoup2.4-1 2.26.1-1 an HTTP library implementation in ii libspeex1 1.2~rc1-1 The Speex codec runtime library ii libstdc++6 4.4.0-3 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libtag1c2a 1.5-6 TagLib Audio Meta-Data Library ii libv4l-0 0.5.9-1 Collection of video4linux support ii libwavpack1 4.50.1-1 an audio codec (lossy and lossless ii libx11-6 2:1.2.1-1 X11 client-side library ii libxdamage1 1:1.1.1-4 X11 damaged region extension libra ii libxext6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 miscellaneous extension librar ii libxfixes3 1:4.0.3-2 X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio ii libxml2 2.7.3.dfsg-1 GNOME XML library ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-13 compression library - runtime Versions of packages gstreamer0.10-plugins-good recommends: ii gstreamer0.10-x 0.10.22-5 GStreamer plugins for X11 and Pang gstreamer0.10-plugins-good suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
