fb2k is a music player, musepack|MPC is a lossy music compression format that tends to be better than mp3
2004-05-04 12522, 2004
jwatk03
i got the character set converter done for the mb_client library! sent ruaok the patch and files... it should be able to convert the UTF-8 data to 53+ character set encodings, that way they show up better on the os... needs a lot of testing though
2004-05-04 12551, 2004
klang
mb is not unicode atm?
2004-05-04 12534, 2004
jwatk03
it stores the data on the server in UTF-8... when they download the info it should be converted to the character set of their language
2004-05-04 12536, 2004
jinxie
ty sonm *S*
2004-05-04 12525, 2004
klang
unicode tagging is a no-no?
2004-05-04 12503, 2004
jwatk03
it is ok
2004-05-04 12512, 2004
klang
and, afaik, only legal charsets in id3v2 are iso-8859-1, utf-8, and utf-16..
2004-05-04 12533, 2004
klang
other codepages violate the spec
2004-05-04 12534, 2004
jwatk03
this is just for displaying on the screen
2004-05-04 12538, 2004
klang
ah
2004-05-04 12558, 2004
jinxie
so you get a real title, instead of a line of lil boxes
2004-05-04 12559, 2004
jwatk03
people have had problems with displaying the info on the screen
2004-05-04 12518, 2004
jwatk03
yeah
2004-05-04 12529, 2004
jwatk03
if you use that language.. if you use english and download info for a non-western album (such as chinese album) you won't see it right... you have to use the same language the album uses
2004-05-04 12514, 2004
jwatk03
right now non-western users are forced to use the english ISO-8599-1 encoding... and they can't see their albums right
2004-05-04 12519, 2004
klang
that a windows api thang?
2004-05-04 12526, 2004
somniloquy
is it possible to get tags in, say, japanese, on a system using english?
2004-05-04 12534, 2004
somniloquy
and have them display correctly, that is
2004-05-04 12507, 2004
jwatk03
if you have your os configured to display the japanese character set, otherwise it might display boxes or weird symbols
2004-05-04 12507, 2004
somniloquy
i've had some files that had japanese titles, and in fb2k they displayed as random symbols in the playlist, but had the actual japanese in the titlebar and taskbar entry
2004-05-04 12521, 2004
somniloquy
my system's a bit odd
2004-05-04 12527, 2004
jwatk03
heh
2004-05-04 12530, 2004
orogor has quit
2004-05-04 12542, 2004
somniloquy
it tends to display japanese ok in some places but not in others
2004-05-04 12549, 2004
klang
somniloquy: that's a font issue
2004-05-04 12516, 2004
somniloquy
ah, thought it might be. but have no idea what fonts i can use
2004-05-04 12522, 2004
klang
fb2k has pretty great unicode support
2004-05-04 12530, 2004
somniloquy
i tried changing the font the system uses on things, but it just stays the same c_c
2004-05-04 12546, 2004
klang
well, in fb2k at least it's a font issue :)
2004-05-04 12500, 2004
klang
ms gothic is monospaced and has the CJK block
2004-05-04 12526, 2004
klang
so that should fly for fb2k and fancy config strings :)
2004-05-04 12548, 2004
somniloquy
hmm
2004-05-04 12518, 2004
somniloquy
i was using lucida console, and had some lines and stuff, and with ms gothic they become disjointed, as with many -'s stuck together
2004-05-04 12542, 2004
somniloquy
and it unaligns tracks from the same album :(
2004-05-04 12545, 2004
jinxie
ok.. food time.. thanks for the help blizzow... talk to yall later maybe... if i don't take a baseball bat to my machine
2004-05-04 12557, 2004
jwatk03
use a chainsaw!
2004-05-04 12504, 2004
somniloquy
hehe
2004-05-04 12507, 2004
jinxie
lol
2004-05-04 12510, 2004
somniloquy
laters
2004-05-04 12514, 2004
jinxie has left the channel
2004-05-04 12553, 2004
klang
prob with gothic is that '-' takes up two spaces.
2004-05-04 12550, 2004
somniloquy
i think i retagged all the songs i downloaded that had japanese titles anyway
