Cai Feng’s Blog

It’s a long time pain for my mp3 files. I tried a lot of kinds way to convert my mp3 files’ id3 tag encoding. But every time when I need to convert the tag, I can’t remembered what I did last time. Now I’m going to record some way to do this.

I used amarok. Since the developers os amarok hate to deal with various kinds of encoding, they determined to use unicode which required id3v2.4 tag. This decision makes a lot of Chinese music displayed like a mess in the amarok because most of Chinese music used old version, different encode id3 tags.

I found some good ways to convert your music id3 tags here: http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Converting_MP3_Tags_To_UTF-8

The most way I like is mid3iconv

I used it like this:

For a single file

$mid3iconv -e gb2312 a.mp3 --remove-v1 -dp

For a directory

$find . -name "*.mp3" -exec mid3iconv -e gb2312 --remove-v1 -dp "{}" \;

-p option means dry-run, so if you really want to convert, remove this option.

Linux id3, Linux, tool

I can’t install google toolbar in archlinux firefox3 for a long time. Today I resolved this issue by searched archlinux forum.

Reference:

http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/13759

Why I can’t install google toolbar?

Google can’t recogonized my firefox version correct, that’s because archlinux mark firefox as “GranParadiso”.

How to change that?
1. Type “about:config” in the url bar of firefox.
2. Search “general.useragent.extra.firefox” key, and change the value from “GranParadiso/3.0.x” to “Firefox/3.0.x”
3. Then go to google toolbar install page and click install.

Linux archlinux, firefox