Correctly and conveniently recoded mp3 tags in UTF-8

Hello, dear Habr.

If you have mp3 files with tags in windows-1251 encoding, then Amarok shows such files in its database crookedly.

This post is for those who previously used Rus-Xmms
a project to quickly and conveniently get rid of the headache associated with the encoding of mp3 tags and got it again with the release of KDE4 and
new amarok.
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This post is also for those who do not quite understand how you can correctly and recursively re-encode tags in Linux.
sets of mp3 files in Unicode and version ID3v2.4.

I will try to present it as concisely as possible, so I will not describe the installation of the program in [here substitute
Your favorite distribution name] .

The recipe is simple and is under the cut.



one.
Install EasyTag


2
Go to the settings and set the values ​​as in the screenshot ( ALT + P ).


3. In the tree, select the directory with the music.



4. We are waiting.

5. Press 2 buttons - select all files, save all files.

6. We are waiting. Make Amarok scan the entire base. Everything.



As a bonus, EasyTag will fix file extensions in lowercase.
Thanks for attention.

upd1. I thought and transferred to "Linux for all."
upd2. Habra-user Miroling prompted the name of a similar software under Windows - TagScanner
upd3. krig prompted the tag2utf project
upd4. Sent by mail:
I was rescued by mp3unicode, I recommend
mp3unicode.sourceforge.net
I wrote an article on it, but did not like the UFO.
Alexander Prenko <prenko@gmail.com>