[Abcde-users] Abcde and aiff

[Jason Miller]

Dry Martini Holding Company <qrp at kg4kgl.net> writes:
> My apologies. I knew there was something that I was forgetting. Here is 
> my config file:
> ...
I've been doing some digging on how abcde encodes metadata for AIFF
files:

It (by default and your configuration does not override the default)
uses ffmpeg with the options "-write_id3v2 1 -id3v2_version 4"; that
*might* be enough information for those more familiar with Rune to
suggest what is going wrong.

If that doesn't let you make progress, then if you post an example of a
working AIFF file (with non-ascii characters in the metadata please),
and a non-working AIFF file from abcde, then I would be willing to take
a few minutes to compare the two.

For what it is worth, on "My Machine" abcde properly generates an
id3v2.4 tag that is UTF-8 encoded; here's an example hex dump of the
string for the Japanese band シートベルツ from an AIFF encode I just
performed (from the id3v2 TPE1 -- Lead performer(s)/Solist(s) -- field):

03e3 82b7 e383 bce3 8388 e383 99e3 83ab e383 8400

The "03" at the beginning of the text field indicates it is UTF-8
encoded, and the remainder I have confirmed to be the UTF-8
representation of the Japanese band name, followed by a null termination.

Regards,
Jason