hebrew text in ID3 tags of mp3 files (Was: hebrew letters in non-unicode vfat)

[Shlomi Fish]

On Monday 16 August 2010 05:55:33 Arie Skliarouk wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> There are different encodings used to put hebrew into ID3 tags of MP3
> files: *
> The ID3 Tags contained in your MP3 files can be one of the following:
> ID3v1, ID3v2.3 or ID3v2.4 which use different character set encoding.
> ID3v1 specifies no specific character coding and has a limited number of
> fields with very limited sizes, and is seldom used these days.
> IDv2.3 is the most common standard in use and uses ISO 8859 1 or UTF-16
> character set encoding, here UTF-16 is very common.
> IDv2.4 is the latest standard and uses UTF-8 character encoding.
> *
> All players/firmware combinations support different features. Even
> desktop-based linux player (Rhythmbox) can't reliably recognize encoding of
> the ID3 tags. Can someone recommend a different music organizing program
> (for Linux)?
> 
> Is there a page that explains the topic in detail?
> 
> Don't ID3 have encoding type field?
> 
> How can I mass-change encoding of the hebrew texts in the ID3 fields?
> 

I saw plenty of ID3-handling programs and libraries on Freshmeat:

http://freshmeat.net/

There are also some on CPAN:

http://search.cpan.org/search?query=id3&mode=all

One of them should do the trick.

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

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