I believe that newer versions of abcde have rectified the mp3 tagging issues. By default in 2.7.1 the tagging will be accomplished with eyed3 and options exist for id3v2 and even id3. Precise ships a very old version of abcde that may be a little too much trouble to patch up...
This is an old bug (2013) and if perhaps you are now running trusty have a look at Doug's PPA: Ubuntu Multimedia for Trusty https://launchpad.net/~mc3man/+archive/ubuntu/trusty-media This contains abcde 2.7 as well as other goodies :) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1155718 Title: abcde generates MP3 metadata with incorrect character encoding To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/abcde/+bug/1155718/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
