EAC&Unicode->CUE&Image->.wv->fb2k

EAC&Unicode->CUE&Image->.wv->fb2k - unicode problems

2008-01-24 21:58:53

Hi.
Im fairly new to using eac. I'm using v0.99 PB3 with an excellent LG GSA-H10N. I rip albums as images and convert them to .wv with embedded cuesheets. While ripping my first 50 albums, i encountered some problems:

- the suggested commandline for usage with cuesheets

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-hm -w "Cuesheet=@*.cue" -w "Artist=%a" -w "Album=%g" -w "Year=%y" -w "Genre=%m" %s %d

from the ha-wiki for eac&wv messes my various artist albums up. Every track has the artist set, that was originally only on track 2. Which is, to me, clear as i set the artist tag for the whole file by using "Artist=%a". Why should i do this? For me,

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-hm -w "Cuesheet=@*.cue" %s %d

worked much better and this is what I expected to see on the wiki. The (track-)tags are taken anyway from the cuesheet. Was that intentional?

- i use the musicbrainz to freedb-gateway, so the downloaded tags consist of unicode (UTF-8 without BOM i guess) characters, which i want to keep. As eac can't handle them, they aren't displayed correctly and can't be written into filenames either, which ain't a serious issue. But i expected foobar to read the right characters from the embedded cuesheet, but it doesn't. It still displays those messed-up characters already seen in eac. Is there anything i can do about it without having to stick to latin1?

Thank you for your answers.

EDIT: as i did some examination, it seems to me, the characters had to be interpreted as unicode, then it won't be a problem for eac and foobar to show them correctly. Can't say to now though why they don't get they're dealing with unicode. Notepad can do it. But still, no easy solution for this. If i replace the 'bad' characters by what they were meant to be, i only get latin1-files. How could i control if i set an latin-ü or a unicode-ü? (guess what, i'm german )

EAC&Unicode->CUE&Image->.wv->fb2k - unicode problems

Reply #1 – 2008-01-25 09:55:37

Quote from: soulsearchingsun on 2008-01-24 21:58:53

I rip albums as images and convert them to .wv with embedded cuesheets.

First- I have to complement you on an excellent scheme.

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from the ha-wiki for eac&wv messes my various artist albums up. Every track has the artist set, that was originally only on track 2. Which is, to me, clear as i set the artist tag for the whole file by using "Artist=%a". Why should i do this? For me,
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-hm -w "Cuesheet=@*.cue" %s %d
worked much better and this is what I expected to see on the wiki. The (track-)tags are taken anyway from the cuesheet. Was that intentional?

From my experience, EAC does screw up with mutli-artist discs to images with CUE-sheets, and that is the exact same behavior I experienced with the second artist being used instead of the album artist, Various. FB2K can read from the cuesheet comment to give each image the track tags. Instead of using EAC to make and tag my images, I use REACT thought EAC, as REACT gets it tags from the CUE.

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- i use the musicbrainz to freedb-gateway, so the downloaded tags consist of unicode (UTF-8 without BOM i guess) characters, which i want to keep. As eac can't handle them, they aren't displayed correctly and can't be written into filenames either, which ain't a serious issue. But i expected foobar to read the right characters from the embedded cuesheet, but it doesn't. It still displays those messed-up characters already seen in eac. Is there anything i can do about it without having to stick to latin1?

No ideas about that, I haven't really encountered/thought about this issue.

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