From humanzz at hotmail.com Fri Jan 18 06:54:28 2008 From: humanzz at hotmail.com (Ahmed Sobhi) Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:54:28 +0200 Subject: [ID3 Dev] Suggestion For International Artists Names Message-ID: Hello, I'm a software developer but I'm not at all experienced with id3 tagging system from a developer's perspective. I'm facing a problem as a user and I just wanted to share that problem and propose how I want it to be solved. I'm Egyptian so part of my mp3s collection is for Egyptian and Arab artists. The problem is with the songs, albums titles and artists names. I'd like to see them in Arabic. I know that this is possible with unicode and for sure that works quite well for me. I'm talking about storing the names in multiple languages, like having an artist's name in arabic and english and also to allow for multiple spellings. For example, I have an artist called " ?? ?????" and in English she has several spellings like Um Kalthoum, Om Kalsoum and several others. I'd like to be able to search in my music library with any of these names. So what I'm suggesting is to enable aliases for different standard fields and to be able to specify their languages too. What do you think? Regards, Ahmed Sobhi -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From paul_t100 at fastmail.fm Tue Jan 8 12:57:10 2008 From: paul_t100 at fastmail.fm (Paul Taylor) Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 20:57:10 +0000 Subject: [ID3 Dev] Solutions to apps not using ISO8859-1 for the default encoding Message-ID: <4783E3A6.1000907@fastmail.fm> Ive had a number of queries recently of people complaining that their non-english tags arent being displayed properly ( see:https://jaudiotagger.dev.java.net/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=179), it turns out it is because they are using their defalt operating ystem encoding rather than ISO8859-1 when the mp3 was created, for example using Windows-1252cp which is different for cyrillic scripts than ISO8859-1. Can I check that ID3v1 must use ISO8859-1 or is it valid to use a different encoding, and could we add encoders that dont use the supported encoding to the non-compliance list. thanks Paul --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: id3v2-unsubscribe at id3.org For additional commands, e-mail: id3v2-help at id3.org From beat84 at gmx.at Thu Jan 24 17:57:00 2008 From: beat84 at gmx.at (Clemens Hammerl) Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 02:57:00 +0100 Subject: [ID3 Dev] id3.org down? In-Reply-To: <20080123182930.GA4531@ayup.limey.net> References: <20080123182930.GA4531@ayup.limey.net> Message-ID: <0E7E90D9-0F36-4D56-AF4A-D747CFB85F7C@gmx.at> site works... Am 23.01.2008 um 19:29 schrieb Ben Bennett: > > It appears that id3.org is down... Is there anything I can do to > help? > > -ben > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: id3v2-unsubscribe at id3.org > For additional commands, e-mail: id3v2-help at id3.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: id3v2-unsubscribe at id3.org For additional commands, e-mail: id3v2-help at id3.org From fiji at ayup.limey.net Wed Jan 23 10:29:31 2008 From: fiji at ayup.limey.net (Ben Bennett) Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 13:29:31 -0500 Subject: [ID3 Dev] id3.org down? Message-ID: <20080123182930.GA4531@ayup.limey.net> It appears that id3.org is down... Is there anything I can do to help? -ben --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: id3v2-unsubscribe at id3.org For additional commands, e-mail: id3v2-help at id3.org From dano at northpb.com Thu Jan 24 20:07:59 2008 From: dano at northpb.com (Dan O'Neill) Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:07:59 -0800 Subject: [ID3 Dev] id3.org down? In-Reply-To: <0E7E90D9-0F36-4D56-AF4A-D747CFB85F7C@gmx.at> References: <20080123182930.GA4531@ayup.limey.net> <0E7E90D9-0F36-4D56-AF4A-D747CFB85F7C@gmx.at> Message-ID: <4799609F.6050409@northpb.com> Hi, Long story short. Old old servers that run fine while they're left alone don't run so well when you shut them down for hours and then try to power them back up. All USA hosting providers are having issues providing enough power to their customers. Ours needed to add new PDU's and transformers and scheduled an outage for our racks. No problem with that... Servers were taken down in an orderly manner and we waited until the maintenance was over (apprx. 5 hours) and started to bring things up. Unfortunately, some of these servers and their power supplies have been running solid since 2000/2001 and no longer had enough juice to fire up the servers. We prepared by having a number of spare 1U PSU's. Unfortunately, the number of failures exceeded our spare pool by 3X - yes 3X! The id3.org server was temporarily (1 day) repositioned as a database server for my company. Additional PSU's were delivered around noon PST and the id3.org server was returned to it's original use. That's all there is. The first data center war story of 2008. dano --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: id3v2-unsubscribe at id3.org For additional commands, e-mail: id3v2-help at id3.org