SUMMARY I ripped a bunch of audio CDs to flac and noticed that while the filenames of the resulting files where normal, their Metadata had all sorts of characters replaced, e. g. "Don't Stop Me Now" became "Don##t stop me now". I was able to correct these mistakes by editing the metadata in other software, so clearly this is not a limitation of Flac's Metadata format. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Find an audio CD that has characters such as ' or üöäß in its album title, artist name or track names 2. Rip it with K3b 3. Take a look at the metadata of the resulting files using e. g. VLC OBSERVED RESULT The characters are replaced with ## in the metadata but the filename is usually fine. EXPECTED RESULT The metadata should look normal SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: Arch Linux KDE Plasma Version: 5.24.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.94.0 Qt Version: 5.15.4 Kernel Version: 5.18.2-zen1-1-zen (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland
Can't seem to reproduce :/ tsdgeos@xps:~/musica/AC_DC - Iron Man 2:$ ls 02 - Rock 'n' Roll Damnation.flac tsdgeos@xps:~/musica/AC_DC - Iron Man 2:$ metaflac --list 02\ -\ Rock\ \'n\'\ Roll\ Damnation.flac METADATA block #0 type: 0 (STREAMINFO) is last: false length: 34 minimum blocksize: 4096 samples maximum blocksize: 4096 samples minimum framesize: 16 bytes maximum framesize: 13711 bytes sample_rate: 44100 Hz channels: 2 bits-per-sample: 16 total samples: 9630852 MD5 signature: 24d7c6bcd32b693b32f544ec7d71d931 METADATA block #1 type: 4 (VORBIS_COMMENT) is last: false length: 140 vendor string: reference libFLAC 1.3.4 20220220 comments: 5 comment[0]: ARTIST=AC/DC comment[1]: TITLE=Rock 'n' Roll Damnation comment[2]: TRACKNUMBER=02 comment[3]: DATE=2010 comment[4]: ALBUM=Iron Man 2 METADATA block #2 type: 1 (PADDING) is last: true length: 8192
(In reply to Albert Astals Cid from comment #1) > Can't seem to reproduce :/ Weird. I wonder what's going wrong on my system then, because it happens literally every time there is a special character in the metadata. I do seem to recall that this hasn't always been the case on my system either though, as I'm sure I have ripped CDs with '-characters before without problems. Maybe it has something to do with the tools / libraries used in the background? Or maybe it is in some way related to the locale? My system is set to german.