Originally posted by busterG
I'm encoding an audio CD which has a lot of international characters in the track titles, and performer names. I can go into File->Edit Album and chose an Encoding, but this only fixes the problem for filenames, not for the tags that get written to the mp3s themselves.
So I can get a track name to be Prélude.mp3 but the track information for the title shows "Prélude". I'm using KAudioCreator 1.4.3 and I'm encoding to mp3 using the default settings (it has to be mp3 format as I'm copying my albums from home to play at work, which is Windows only).
I am having the exact same problem with KAudioCreator and lame (mp3 encoding). Whenever I rip audio CDs that contain Japanese tracks, the track names in the ID3 tags of the resulting MP3 files get garbled. OTOH, OGG encoding using oggenc works perfect.
I am wondering if this is really an issue with the ID3 tag specfication rather than with KAudioCreator or lame?