[Solved] mp3 tag problem in xmms

[marquitico]

The skinny:

Regarding mp3 tags, what does this error mean?

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Conversion not supported. Charsets: UTF-16 -> ANSI_X3.4-1968
The long-winded version:

Several mp3 files produce garbage characters in xmms's display instead of the file info from the tags (song name, artist name, et cetera). If I run xmms from the command line with the file in question, I get the error quoted above. I have verified that the tags from the same files display correctly in Windows, and also in a few other Linuxes.

I understand locales and character sets very little, so any help is appreciated. These mp3s are Amazon downloads, in case anyone's curious. Other mp3s in my collection have tags that display just fine.

If it's simply a question of adding locale support, I'd prefer to do that rather than running around re-tagging all these songs by hand, as there are quite a few.

MicroCore 2.10, Xorg-7.4, xmms (gtk1 version)

Thank you.

[curaga]

Short: Install glibc_gconv (or whatever it's called).

Long: glibc character set conversion data is not included by default.

[marquitico]

Oh, brilliant. Thank you!