I have some Bulgarian/Russian songs which have Cyrillic characters in them. Nautilus displays them fine , but in rhythmbox all their id3tag info is displayed as gibberish.
I have set the system language to Russian(UTF-8) .
Downloaded some program named mp3diags with which I tried to convert id3 tags to utf-8 but instead of gibberish the song was displayed with Chinese letters.
I tried to use EasyTag , but could not find out how to mass rename song titles or to convert them to UTF-8.
P.S There are some songs which are displayed right in rhythmbox (i.e I can see the artist name , album , song title just fine – all written in Cyrillic) , does that mean that the problem is in my Songs?
If someone has faced similar problem I would be most grateful for some info on solving it.
Best Answer
This is a common problem with Cyrillic id3tags encoded in Windows.
There is a python script, tag2utf, you could try to fix the encoding.
Just place the script into the same folder where the songs are, run it with
python ./tag2utf-0.16.py, and follow the prompt.Reportedly, there is also another tool, mid3iconv. It is part of the
python-mutagenpackage in the repositories.