[Abcde-users] FW: Abcde and aiff

[Jason Miller]

Gabriel Rosenkoetter <gr at eclipsed.net> writes:
> On 2025-04-22 04:24, josh wrote:
>> My apologies but I was too hasty to declare that abcde does not tag aiff 
>> files. It does tag them during the encoding action.
>> 
>> Here is the link to the relevant function:
>> ...
>
> Huh.
>
> Are $TRACKARTIST, $TRACKNAME, and so forth populated when that code path 
> executes?
>
> Of course I could check, but you're way closer to this code base at this 
> point. :^>
Somehow this thread got detached from the original thread in my
mail-reader, so I missed this track of discussion, but see in the
original thread that I confirmed that the result of running abcde with a
configuration substantially similar to what was posted resulted in a
UTF-8 id3v2 tag in the AIFF file on my machine.

Since ffmpeg is used for adding the AIFF metadata, the ffmpeg version
could be affecting things.  As far as locale goes, I tried with an
LC_ALL=C and still got UTF-8 data in the id3v2 tag; this is with ffmpeg
7.1 on NixOS.

Lastly, I wasn't able to get RuneAudio setup, but it appears to be MPD
based, and a vanilla MPD server was able to read the metadata properly
(again on my machine).

-Jason