tag2utf<\/a>.\u00a0 It’s a little Python script that converts the encoding of ID3 tags from koi8 or cp1251 (two most widely used Russian encodings) to utf8.\u00a0 It’s very easy to install (the only requirement my system needed was python-eye3d library, which exists in Fedora repository) and use.\u00a0 Just run it from the command line with no parameters and it will recursively look in the current directory for any files that have ID3 tags in non-utf8 encoding.\u00a0 It will then give you a choice of two encodings to select from (koi8 or cp1251), a “skip” option, and a “manual” option.\u00a0 All you will have to do is take a quick look at the files, and chose to either convert them from one of the two options, skip them or convert manually one by one.\u00a0 You will have to make this choice for every directory with non-utf8 files.\u00a0 Optionally, you can specify on the command line which directories to scan.\u00a0 In case you need to convert from some other non-Russian encoding to utf8, the script is trivial to modify.<\/p>\nBoth tools are excellent pieces of software.\u00a0 It took me practically no time at all to fix my mp3 collection.\u00a0 Now I can search it better, and all files display nicely in any mp3 player.\u00a0 Brilliant stuff!<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n
I have a rather large MP3 collection.\u00a0 The directories and files are named correctly more or less, but ID3 tags used to be a mess until very recently.\u00a0 Two applications helped me to bring some order in that mess. 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