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Repair encoding of ID3 tags

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I have inherited about 2000 MP3 files. For the majority of them, their ID3 tags display garbled in Amarok. I need a software that upgrades the ID3 tags to v2.4 type (i.e. UTF-8 encoding), removes any v1 tags, and is also smart about figuring out the original encoding on a case-by-case basis (most l…

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Fix for: Repair encoding of ID3 tags

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You want Ex Falso, the tag editor included in the Quod Libet project. Picard (the MusicBrainz tagger) may use the same tagging library, but QL originated it. In particular, you want the Mutagen tagging library, which supports id3v2.4 (and by "suppor…

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