Accent in files names or tag are not properly encoded/displayed

[Guidart]

Accent in files names or tag are not properly encoded/displayed

[tibbi]

any example or screenshots or what you mean?

[Guidart]

Here an example, is it helping?

[tibbi]

paste some selectable text here too for easier reproduction please

[Guidart]

Ce que l'on sème

[ajgelado]

The kind of mojibake shown in the screen capture points to UTF-8 being treated as Latin-1. The specification of ID3 indicates that text fields should be marked with the encoding used in them. Maybe the tool used to tag the files are incorrectly marking the encoding? Should Simple Music ignore the encoding mark and try to autodetect it? While it would work almost every time with Latin alphabet languages, that strategy would certainly be disastrous for eastern language users (Japanes, Chinese, etc.).

[lubomir]

I have the same problem, only with Czech instead of French. I believe the file contains correct ID3 v2.3.0 tag (https://id3.org/id3v2.3.0), as it displays correctly in VLC and Rhythmbox.

The song name should be Vyšehrad by Bedřich Smetana, but it displays like this:

Hexdump of the start of the file with the metadata:

00000000: 4944 3303 0000 0000 0776 5449 5432 0000  ID3......vTIT2..
00000010: 0013 0000 01ff fe56 0079 0061 0165 0068  .......V.y.a.e.h
00000020: 0072 0061 0064 0054 5045 3100 0000 2100  .r.a.d.TPE1...!.
00000030: 0001 fffe 4200 6500 6400 5901 6900 6300  ....B.e.d.Y.i.c.
00000040: 6800 2000 5300 6d00 6500 7400 6100 6e00  h. .S.m.e.t.a.n.
00000050: 6100 5452 434b 0000 0004 0000 0031 2f36  a.TRCK.......1/6
00000060: 5441 4c42 0000 0013 0000 01ff fe4d 00e1  TALB.........M..
00000070: 0020 0076 006c 0061 0073 0074 0054 5945  . .v.l.a.s.t.TYE
00000080: 5200 0000 0500 0000 3139 3930 5458 5858  R.......1990TXXX
00000090: 0000 0015 0000 0043 4444 4220 4469 7363  .......CDDB Disc
000000a0: 4944 0034 3731 3233 3830 3654 5858 5800  ID.47123806TXXX.
000000b0: 0000 1000 0000 6469 7363 6964 0034 3731  ......discid.471
000000c0: 3233 3830 3654 5858 5800 0000 3000 0000  23806TXXX...0...
000000d0: 4d75 7369 6342 7261 696e 7a20 4469 7363  MusicBrainz Disc
000000e0: 4944 004e 426e 6a4c 5654 5659 5f44 6665  ID.NBnjLVTVY_Dfe
000000f0: 7a51 3072 772e 4857 365f 2e4a 4363 2d54  zQ0rw.HW6_.JCc-T
00000100: 5858 5800 0000 3000 0000 6d75 7369 6362  XXX...0...musicb
00000110: 7261 696e 7a5f 6469 7363 6964 004e 426e  rainz_discid.NBn
00000120: 6a4c 5654 5659 5f44 6665 7a51 3072 772e  jLVTVY_DfezQ0rw.
00000130: 4857 365f 2e4a 4363 2d00 0000 0000 0000  HW6_.JCc-.......

Here's interpretation of the frame with song name:

• 5449 5432 == TIT2 ­– frame ID
• 0000 0013 == 19 – size of frame minus header
• 0000 – flags
• 01 – indicates that UCS-2 encoding is used (which really is the only allowed Unicode encoding for this tag version, the only alternative is ISO-8859-1, which can not represent this text)
• ff fe – BOM
• 56 0079 0061 0165 0068 0072 0061 0064 00 – actual data

The information about encoding is actually stored in the file and is correct.

[lubomir]

This may be a problem directly with Android: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/37013213 https://vanilla-music.github.io/ can display the names correctly. It however seems to implement a custom parser for the metadata.