EncodingConverter 0.2

EncodingConverter is an Amarok script that offers a conversion from MP3 ID3v1 tags with non-latin1 data to unicode with ID3v2.

Important: This script is in alpha status. As it makes changes to ID3 tag information please make a backup of relevant files.

Furthermore only a limited number of languages is supported (especially if Textcat isn't installed) though more can be easily added. Please submit encodings and their general language or language family name (e.g. ISO 8859-1 = west european) to the author.

ID3v1 doesn't specify in which encoding the meta data is given. Many people believe that only latin1 (ISO 8859-1) should be specified, though a lot of music is tagged in the encoding used locally and a lot of music players will interpret ID3v1 meta data as being in latin1 or in a previously specified encoding set for all system wide files.

With mixing music of different languages from different sources, ID3v1 tags will be mixed with different encodings, so that a default encoding can't work for all files.

ID3v2 does allow Unicode, so an easy solution is to just convert ID3v1 tags to ID3v2. This script will offer the user a method to select a supported encoding and will even guess the encoding as to try to offer the right encoding as the first match.

Usage:

Right clicking on the file and choosing "EncodingConverter" and "Convert to Unicode" will open a window that shows all relevant tag fields and an encoding chooser. The encoding guesser will try to find a best match for the given content but if the tag fields do show wrong content and weired characters the current encoding is wrong and another one needs to be chosen.

The fields actually to be converted can be chosen by ticking the checkboxes. By default all fields will be converted when clicking Ok.

Requirements:

· PyKDE
· PyQt
· Amarok

What's New in This Release:

· new version of ngram.py, includes language/encoding pairs even if Textcat not available updated documentation



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