On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 11:07:09PM +0100, Pablo Saratxaga wrote: > If your problem is not with the program interface but with the song > titles... it's a mess. > MP3 format didn't define the encoding to use, so there are around files > using various different encodings; plus the xmms program in the first > versions only supported ascii for displaying titles; various patches > have been done to improve that, and with an xmms version including all > the nice patches, you have to go to preferences->fonts/encodings > to define the various fonts to use (clicking on "use fontsets" is a good > idea if you are on an utf-8 locale), click on "use X font" if you want > an X11 font to be used for the small display on the main window (I don't > know if the builtin font has german letters). > > In the "encodings" tab you can play with the variables if your mp3 > have their titles encoded differently than the locale you are using; > the choices are limited, and not very suitable for German, but probably > choosing an Eastern European language written in latin alphabet could give > good enough results. AFAIK, ID3v2 2.3 version tags support iso-8859-1 and utf-16 encodings. So maybe you can try to convert your tags to utf-16. You can use a very neat program EasyTAG [http://easytag.sf.net] for that. > Of course, what is needed is for xmms to switch to gtk2, and things > will be much easier, and a lot of languages currently unsupported will > be possible. While it's not happened just grab a newest release of Beep Media Player, which is a nearly drop-in replacement for xmms, if you don't have to use some xmms' plugins. Cheers, Åygis
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