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

[Arie Skliarouk]

Hi,

There are different encodings used to put hebrew into ID3 tags of MP3 files:
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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.
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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?

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Arie
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