Charset problems

[daniil]

Hi and sorry for my English.
I'm using 1.8.5-20110218 version of getid3() and library and I have problems with charset.
For some russian songs getid3() returns something like " ? ??????? (Ural Djs Radio Mix Edit) " while GNOME Nautilus (Bashee and Rythmbox) returns "Я Улетела (Ural Djs Radio Mix Edit)". So I think that's gerID3()'s problem. Maybe I'll update to 2nd version? Is it compatible with 1.8? Does it fix charset problems?
P.S. My PHP is Version 5.2.17 and yes, it supports iconv().
Sincerely,
Daniil.

[James Heinrich]

Can you send me a sample file, please?

[daniil]

Almost forgot. Here's example of such file: http://rghost.ru/15029031/private/15328 ... 3f7b7b4039

[James Heinrich]

Thanks. After a very quick look, it seems that the title is correctly read into [comments_html], but not in [comments]. This is a getID3 bug, I will figure out why and post back with the solution.

[James Heinrich]

The data returned by getID3() in [tags] (and [comments]) array is by default encoded in UTF-8. Are you sure you're attempting to display this data with the correct encoding?

I'm not familiar with the other programs you mention, but it could be they display correctly because they're showing the ID3v1 tag and your system is set to Cyrillic codepage so the extended characters appear to be correctly mapped to the characters you expect to see (although it's debatable whether this is "correct" or not).

I also found a display issue in demo.browse.php which would not show the data correctly, even though getID3() did return the correct data. See attached screenshot.

What is your code for reading/displaying the tag data with getID3?

[daniil]

When I used this code:

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require_once('getid3/getid3.php');
$getID3 = new getID3;

$meta = $getID3->analyze(ROOT_DIR.$alterfolder."/".$fname);
getid3_lib::CopyTagsToComments($meta);

$artist = (!empty($meta['tags']['id3v2']["artist"][0])) ? $meta['tags']['id3v2']["artist"][0] : "Неизвестно";
$title = (!empty($meta['tags']['id3v2']["title"][0])) ? $meta['tags']['id3v2']["title"][0] : "Неизвестно";



getid3() returned something like "????? ???????? — ??????????? ?????????". Now I'm trying to use

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// (...)
$artist = (!empty($meta['comments_html']["artist"][0])) ? $meta['comments_html']["artist"][0] : "Неизвестно";
$title = (!empty($meta['comments_html']["title"][0])) ? $meta['comments_html']["title"][0] : "Неизвестно";

But it returns data encoded in "CP1252". Example: "Âàëåðèé Ëåîíòüåâ — Íå Íàäî ßäà". It is better than "?????? ????", but still not UTF-8 :\
Also, my bd charset (each composition is saved in DB) is utf8.

[James Heinrich]

Are you using getID3 v1.8.5 or v1.9.0? If <1.9.0, please upgrade so I'm not trying to fix old bugs.

Note that [comments] is a combination of all tag formats, and so you'll usually see something like this:

['comments']['album'][0] = "Çàæãè ïîä ëåòíèå õèòû (2011)"
['comments']['album'][1] = "Зажги под летние хиты (2011)"

because the first version comes from ID3v1 (assumed to be ISO-8859-1, and converted to UTF-8), and the second (correct) version comes from ID3v2 converted from whatever character set the tag data is written in (ISO-8859-1, UTF-8, UTF-16, etc) to UTF-8.

If you know that your ID3v1 tags are encoded in something other than ISO-8859-1, you can override it like this, and you should get the correct output in [tags] and [comments]

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$getID3 = new getID3;
$getID3->encoding_id3v1 = 'CP1252';
$meta = $getID3->analyze(ROOT_DIR.$alterfolder."/".$fname);

[daniil]

I updated my getid3() to the last version and I still get "???????". What am I doing wrong?

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         $artist = (!empty($meta['comments']['artist'][1])) ? $meta['comments']["artist"][1] : false;
         $title = (!empty($meta['comments']["title"][1])) ? $meta['comments']["title"][1] : false;
         if (empty($artist))
            $artist = (!empty($meta['comments']['artist'][0])) ? iconv("CP1252", "UTF-8", $meta['comments']['artist'][0]) : "Неизвестно";
         if (empty($title))
            $title = (!empty($meta['comments']["title"][0])) ? iconv("CP1252", "UTF-8", $meta['comments']["title"][0]) : "Неизвестно";
         echo $title; //returns 58.  ???????

[daniil]

Thank you! Problem solved!
Here's solution (line 2):

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$getID3 = new getID3;
$getID3->setOption(array('encoding' => "UTF-8"));

[James Heinrich]

$getID3->setOption(array('encoding' => "UTF-8"));

Yes, you're absolutely right, sorry about that -- I thought that was the default encoding for the getID3 class, but it wasn't. But it is now -- I've changed the default value for v1.9.1