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[leon-9]

Hi there,

I'm running emms (v3.0) with Emacs (2008-12-14) on WinXP.

I have mp3info for windows installed. However, it displays Chinese track
with question marks like those in the subject line of this message.

I have tried setting emms-info-mp3info-coding-system to various options
with no success. The track metainfo can be correctly viewed in
application such as vlc.

Any idea how to fix this?

Thanks,
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[Tassilo Horn-5]

Leo <sdl.web@...> writes:

Hi Leo,

> I'm running emms (v3.0) with Emacs (2008-12-14) on WinXP.
>
> I have mp3info for windows installed. However, it displays Chinese
> track with question marks like those in the subject line of this
> message.

Emms reads mp3infos output, so I suspect the output is garbled.  What
dou you get when executing `mp3info <chinese-track.mp3>' in a cmd
terminal?

> I have tried setting emms-info-mp3info-coding-system to various
> options with no success. The track metainfo can be correctly viewed in
> application such as vlc.

That doesn't use mp3info but accesses the mp3 idv3 with some API
directly.  This way it cannot be affected by coding issues with cmd.exe.

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[leon-9]

On 2008-12-15 13:33 +0000, Tassilo Horn wrote:
> Emms reads mp3infos output, so I suspect the output is garbled.  What
> dou you get when executing `mp3info <chinese-track.mp3>' in a cmd
> terminal?

K:\Music\cn>mp3info "You and Me.mp3"
File: You and Me.mp3
Title:   ???                            Track: 1
Artist:  ?? ?????
Album:   ???                            Year:
Comment:                                Genre: Pop [13]

Looks like it can not display it either though all the Chinese files can
be displayed correctly in explorer.

>> I have tried setting emms-info-mp3info-coding-system to various
>> options with no success. The track metainfo can be correctly viewed in
>> application such as vlc.
>
> That doesn't use mp3info but accesses the mp3 idv3 with some API
> directly.  This way it cannot be affected by coding issues with cmd.exe.

Thanks for the explanation.

Best,
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[William Xu-2]

Leo <sdl.web@...> writes:

> I have mp3info for windows installed. However, it displays Chinese track
> with question marks like those in the subject line of this message.

Which emms-setup are you using? (emms-devel) includes an extra emms-i18n
module, which is capable of decoding outputs from mp3info correctly in
some respects.  

I did a quick test on Windows XP with some mp3 files.  And it works okay
for both gbk and utf-8 encoded tag info.  

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[leon-9]

On 2008-12-21 06:13 +0000, William Xu wrote:
> Leo <sdl.web@...> writes:
>
>> I have mp3info for windows installed. However, it displays Chinese track
>> with question marks like those in the subject line of this message.
>
> Which emms-setup are you using? (emms-devel) includes an extra emms-i18n
> module, which is capable of decoding outputs from mp3info correctly in
> some respects.

Correct.

> I did a quick test on Windows XP with some mp3 files.  And it works okay
> for both gbk and utf-8 encoded tag info.  

Unfortunately, my Windows XP has been set up to use utf-8 with British
English. I only installed east Asian language support but cmd.exe still
can not display Chinese.

Thanks,
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[William Xu-2]

Leo <sdl.web@...> writes:

> Unfortunately, my Windows XP has been set up to use utf-8 with British
> English. I only installed east Asian language support but cmd.exe still
> can not display Chinese.

Hmm...  I'm using Chinese version Windows XP here.  cmd.exe also cannot
display all the tag info correctly, since there are multiple encodings
anyway.  But inside emms, they are all displayed correctly.  

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[leon-9]

On 2008-12-21 07:13 +0000, William Xu wrote:
> Leo <sdl.web@...> writes:
>
>> Unfortunately, my Windows XP has been set up to use utf-8 with British
>> English. I only installed east Asian language support but cmd.exe still
>> can not display Chinese.
>
> Hmm...  I'm using Chinese version Windows XP here.  cmd.exe also cannot
> display all the tag info correctly, since there are multiple encodings
> anyway.  But inside emms, they are all displayed correctly.  

Thanks for the info. This gives me hope;) I'll try again later today.

Cheers,
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[leon-9]

On 2008-12-21 11:21 +0000, Leo wrote:

> On 2008-12-21 07:13 +0000, William Xu wrote:
>> Leo <sdl.web@...> writes:
>>
>>> Unfortunately, my Windows XP has been set up to use utf-8 with British
>>> English. I only installed east Asian language support but cmd.exe still
>>> can not display Chinese.
>>
>> Hmm...  I'm using Chinese version Windows XP here.  cmd.exe also cannot
>> display all the tag info correctly, since there are multiple encodings
>> anyway.  But inside emms, they are all displayed correctly.  
>
> Thanks for the info. This gives me hope;) I'll try again later today.

I meant to say that I'll get a macbook and try it there. Yes, it works
beautifully.

I'm glad I am rid of Windows XP once and for all.

> Cheers,

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