[emms-help] Re: Seeing ??? - ?????????

[Leo]

On 2008-12-15 13:33 +0000, Tassilo Horn wrote:
> Emms reads mp3infos output, so I suspect the output is garbled.  What
> dou you get when executing `mp3info <chinese-track.mp3>' in a cmd
> terminal?

K:\Music\cn>mp3info "You and Me.mp3"
File: You and Me.mp3
Title:   ???                            Track: 1
Artist:  ?? ?????
Album:   ???                            Year:
Comment:                                Genre: Pop [13]

Looks like it can not display it either though all the Chinese files can
be displayed correctly in explorer.

>> I have tried setting emms-info-mp3info-coding-system to various
>> options with no success. The track metainfo can be correctly viewed in
>> application such as vlc.
>
> That doesn't use mp3info but accesses the mp3 idv3 with some API
> directly.  This way it cannot be affected by coding issues with cmd.exe.

Thanks for the explanation.

Best,
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