Subject: rhythmbox: Cannot read non-UTF-8 ID3 of mp3 with gst-0.10 Package: rhythmbox Version: 0.9.3.1-1 Severity: normal
*** Please type your report below this line *** Hi, Just after upgrade to 0.9.3, I surprisingly find that rhythmbox begin to use gst-0.10 as backend. It's good since gst-0.10 has many advantages compared with gst-0.8. But it seems that gst-0.10 cannot read non-UTF-8 ID3 of mp3 files correctly. Well, I know all ID3 info SHOULD be encoded in UTF-8. The reality, however, is not the case. There are still a large number of mp3 files encoded locale depended, especially in East Asian countries. More important thing is, many hardware mp3 players cannot read UTF-8 ID3 too. So, we couldn't solve this problem just by simply convert all mp3 files into UTF-8 ID3 files. In gst-0.8, an environment variable GST_ID3_TAG_ENCODING controls how gst application read ID3 info. But it appears to be ignored by gst-0.10. Is there any method to ask gst-0.10 read non-UTF-8 ID3? -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-686 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages rhythmbox depends on: ii dbus 0.60-5 simple interprocess messaging syst ii gconf2 2.12.1-8 GNOME configuration database syste ii gstreamer0.10-alsa [gs 0.10.2-2 ALSA plugin for GStreamer ii gstreamer0.10-gnomevfs 0.10.2-2 Gnome VFS plugin for GStreamer ii gstreamer0.10-plugins- 0.10.2-2 Collection of various GStreamer pl ii gstreamer0.10-plugins- 0.10.1-2 Collection of various GStreamer pl ii gstreamer0.10-plugins- 0.10.1-1 Collection of various GStreamer pl ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.17-1 Library of functions for 2D graphi ii libatk1.0-0 1.10.3-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libaudiofile0 0.2.6-6 Open-source version of SGI's audio ii libavahi-client3 0.6.6-1 Avahi client library ii libavahi-common3 0.6.6-1 Avahi common library ii libavahi-compat-howl0 0.6.6-1 Avahi Howl compatibility library ii libavahi-glib1 0.6.6-1 Avahi glib integration library ii libbonobo2-0 2.10.1-1 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library ii libbonoboui2-0 2.10.1-2 The Bonobo UI library ii libc6 2.3.5-12.1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libcairo2 1.0.2-3 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra ii libdbus-1-2 0.60-5 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.60-5 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libesd-alsa0 [libesd0] 0.2.36-3 Enlightened Sound Daemon (ALSA) - ii libexpat1 1.95.8-3 XML parsing C library - runtime li ii libfontconfig1 2.3.2-1.1 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype6 2.1.10-1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libgconf2-4 2.12.1-8 GNOME configuration database syste ii libgcrypt11 1.2.2-1 LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr ii libglade2-0 1:2.5.1-2 library to load .glade files at ru ii libglib2.0-0 2.8.6-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libgnome-keyring0 0.4.6-2 GNOME keyring services library ii libgnome2-0 2.12.0.1-5 The GNOME 2 library - runtime file ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.12.0-2 A powerful object-oriented display ii libgnomeui-0 2.12.0-2 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf ii libgnomevfs2-0 2.12.2-5 GNOME virtual file-system (runtime ii libgnutls11 1.0.16-14 GNU TLS library - runtime library ii libgpg-error0 1.1-4 library for common error values an ii libgpod0 0.3.0-2 a library to read and write songs ii libgstreamer0.10-0 0.10.2-1 Core GStreamer libraries, plugins, ii libgtk2.0-0 2.8.10-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libhal1 0.5.6-2 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share ii libice6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libjpeg62 6b-11 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG ii libmusicbrainz4c2a 2.1.2-2 Second generation incarnation of t ii libnautilus-burn2 2.12.2-3 Nautilus Burn Library - runtime ve ii libnotify1 0.3.2-1 sends desktop notifications to a n ii liborbit2 1:2.12.4-1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB ii libpango1.0-0 1.10.2-1 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-5 PNG library - runtime ii libpopt0 1.7-5 lib for parsing cmdline parameters ii libsm6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System Session Management ii libsoup2.2-8 2.2.6-1 an HTTP library implementation in ii libtasn1-2 0.2.17-1 Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime) ii libtotem-plparser0 1.2.1-3 Totem Playlist Parser library - ru ii libx11-6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System protocol client li ii libxcursor1 1.1.3-1 X cursor management library ii libxext6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System miscellaneous exte ii libxi6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System Input extension li ii libxinerama1 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System multi-head display ii libxml2 2.6.23.dfsg.1-0.1 GNOME XML library ii libxrandr2 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System Resize, Rotate and ii libxrender1 1:0.9.0.2-1 X Rendering Extension client libra ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-9 compression library - runtime Versions of packages rhythmbox recommends: ii avahi-daemon 0.6.6-1 Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD daemon ii scrollkeeper 0.3.14-10 A free electronic cataloging syste ii yelp 2.12.2-2 Help browser for GNOME 2 -- no debconf information -- Hongzheng Wang
