BUG: LOST PART OF TAGS: WMA->OGG

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BUG Report:
When dbPowerAmp Music Converter convert wma with tags to mp3, all is OK. But if wma to ogg, tag is cuted short from first char with punctation to the end.

e.g.:
convert wma with title "Dödel Up" (o is o with two points above)
When I convert to mp3, tag title is the same as original, but
when I convert to ogg, tag title is only "D" and rest is lost.

And it does the same thing always when I convert wma to ogg with chars with punctation!

I beleave, you can fix it?

Thanks Glin

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I have almost some problems - to be worse, I'm a Korean, and Korean use 2byte for a character, so not a byte is remained. :(

The tags are, however, appeared in Windows Media Classic(unfortunally WMC does not recognize 2byte characters), so it may be a bug of WinAmp, but I'm not sure, because I have hundreds of ogg files with tags, and all of them have been shown correct tags in all version of WinAmp, so I don't know which is wrong.

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But I'm sure, that chars 1byte long with punctation are supportet by Ogg, because when I edit ogg tags, I can write song title with char with punctation and all is OK (even winamp display all right). So it must be only small bug, which can be easy to fix.

With two bytes char I don't have experience.

Glin

[Spoon]

Odd I don't have that problem, so either my ogg is newer (it has had other things changed didn't think I touched that sort of tagging) or it is your WMA.

Save and extract this file:

http://www.dbpoweramp.com/beta/a.zip

convert the wmv file to ogg, look at tag did the artist name all go over?

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I found the reason using hex editor:

Every file format uses different code on description. OGG plugin on WinAmp uses Unicode(UTF-8) and MP3 uses OS native characters. I think that WMA uses UTF-16, but I'm not sure whether it is little-endian or big-endian.

And your OGG library uses OS native characters: it doesn't matter on characters below 127 of ASCII codes but makes conversation problems and (perhaps) makes truncation over higher characters.

I don't know that it is standard that using UTF-8 on OGG.

(By the way, I couldn't test your file because my Korean Windows converted German character to normal English o. :( )

[Spoon]

>Unicode(UTF-8)

I didn't know there was such a 8 bit unicode? can you point me to any examples / descriptions?

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4Spoon:
With your file is the same problem as with my files.

Glin

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I find WHERE IS PROBLEM!!!

I find WHERE IS PROBLEM!!!
In fact, when I look to my (or your (SPOON)) converted files (wma to ogg) in binary, there is tag "Dödel up", but winam and togger (and I suppose most of programs) expect tags in UTF-8 (I thing), and there is only normal ISO (or other 8-bit) coding.
SO problem is in dbPower Music Converter (and other dbPower products like player...) use wrong tag character coding.

(another example: if I convert MP3 with tag "Dödel up" to ogg, it is binary "Dödel Up", and winamp displays it correct "Dödel up", but dbPower... displays it as "Dödel Up") so it refer to problem with wrong coding, too.

Do I explain it clear?

Glin

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another example2:

another exapmle 2:
In dbpower Audio CD input write tag "Dödel up" and rip it to ogg, there is same problem (winamp and togger (and I suppose most of programs) displays "D")

Glin

[Spoon]

Beta Released to fix this:

http://forum.dbpoweramp.com/showthread.php?p=9318#post9318

Now to figure out which other tagging methods (mp3, etc) need UTF8