I have been using id3v2 to automatically tag music files (title, album, artist).
While id3v2 displays the metadata correctly, other players do not - here I have an example of issues with À/è/û and this occurs for seemingly anything other than characters found in English (or 7 bit ASCII?).
I found that using mid3v2 instead fixes this, but I still have hundreds of songs with tagging like this.
For example:
id3v2 -l files/Pomme\ -\ On\ brûlera.mp3
gives
id3v1 tag info for files/Pomme - On brûlera.mp3:
Title : On brûlera Artist: Pomme
Album : À peu près Year: , Genre: Unknown (255)
Comment: Track: 0
id3v2 tag info for files/Pomme - On brûlera.mp3:
TPE1 (Lead performer(s)/Soloist(s)): Pomme
TALB (Album/Movie/Show title): À peu près
TIT2 (Title/songname/content description): On brûlera
However, most music players, e.g. MPV, Musicolet & Sayonara, display this incorrectly:
mid3v2 -l files/Pomme\ -\ On\ brûlera.mp3
gives
IDv2 tag info for files/Pomme - On brûlera.mp3
TALB=à peu près
TIT2=On brûlera
TPE1=Pomme
An example of how it should be:
mid3v2 -l files/Pomme\ -\ À\ peu\ près.mp3
gives
IDv2 tag info for files/Pomme - À peu près.mp3
TALB=À peu près
TIT2=À peu près
TPE1=Pomme
TSSE=Lavf60.3.100
But changing the TSSE of other songs does nothing seemingly, and the other tags remain garbled. e.g.
IDv2 tag info for files/Pomme - On brûlera.mp3
TALB=à peu près
TIT2=On brûlera
TPE1=Pomme
TSSE=Lavf60.3.100
Is there some way of automatically un-garbling all of the metadata? This would be a mighty task to do by hand. Current solution would be to parse the titles to the new artist/title and then do the albums in batch where possible.
