Russian ID3 tags are not displayed correctly

Bug #74253 reported by Max Ischenko
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gstreamer0.10 (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Low
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

While listening to Ukrainian/Russian internet radio the ID3 tags aren't displayed properly. I suspect the problem is that tags encoded in different encoding that rhythmbox expects. E.g. cp1251 instead of utf8.

Sample audio stream: http://radio.zirochka.com:9048/listen.pls

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for your bug. What version of Ubuntu and rhythmbox are you using? Your example seems to not be working, do you have an another one? Does it work correctly with totem?

Changed in rhythmbox:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
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Max Ischenko (ischenko) wrote : Re: [Bug 74253] Re: Russian ID3 tags are not displayed correctly

Hello,

On 12/6/06, Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> Thank you for your bug. What version of Ubuntu and rhythmbox are you
> using? Your example seems to not be working, do you have an another one?

Here is a working url:
http://i-radio.com.ua/altrock-me.m3u
http://i-radio.com.ua/metal-me.m3u

(you may need to wait unti a Russian band is airing though)

Does it work correctly with totem?

It displays the same (garbage) in totem.

I use Ubuntu 6.06 LTS and rhythmox 0.9.3.1-0ubuntu9.

Max.

Changed in rhythmbox:
importance: Undecided → Low
status: Needs Info → Unconfirmed
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Max Ischenko (ischenko) wrote :

The following blog post (in Russian):

http://libc6.blogspot.com/2007/01/id3v1-id3v2-mp3-russian-cyrillic-tags.html

discusses various workarounds to fix encoding; unfortunately all those rely on re-encoding ID3 tags stored in a file. Obviously this won't work for a mp3 streaming/radio.

(PS: why importance is low? do you think non-english users aren't first class users?)

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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote :

Max: not at all. Séb and I both use non-english Desktops. Relax. If you look at other rhythmbox bugs, you will soon find out that display bugs are less severe than others.

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Max Ischenko (ischenko) wrote :

Daniel: glad to hear this. And sure, it's not that "important" compared to more sever errors.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

gst-launch -t playbin display the same incorrect chars, that might be a gstreamer0.10 bug, though it's rather likely that's the stream which doesn't specify its encoding correctly or something like that. Reassigning to gstreamer0.10 for now

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Could you try to reproduce the same with Ubuntu 8.10 or 9.04? Thanks in advance.

Changed in gstreamer0.10:
status: New → Incomplete
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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.

Changed in gstreamer0.10:
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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