Hi > What kind of files / tags did you process with easytag? If these files
that were mp3, not sure about what version of tags since they were gone afterwards. At least they displayed fine in all music players I used. But yes, I guess it is common here in Japan that id3v1 tags are coded in UTF8 (or even ShiftJIS). I still consider overwriting tags when there was an error during preparation, irrespective of the correctness of the original tags, a serious problem. easytag should *not* write broken tags. Best Norbert -- PREINING Norbert https://www.preining.info Fujitsu Research + IFMGA Guide + TU Wien + TeX Live + Debian Dev GPG: 0x860CDC13 fp: F7D8 A928 26E3 16A1 9FA0 ACF0 6CAC A448 860C DC13