by Jim
Mar 05, 2008 11:12 AM
One of the cool features of the Alltel Hue phone that Katrin and I have is the built-in music player. I recently started using this and found that some of my mp3 files show gibberish for the album and song information.
After a little research I figured out the source of the problem; the problem files have their tags stored in unicode. The phone can't understand this and shows the wrong characters.
There are a lot of tools out there for manipulating mp3 tags, but the one I've found that can fix this issue is Mp3tag. I don't have to reload the tag information; just set the appropriate options in the software, open a folder full of music files, and choose the save option from the file menu. The 16-bit tags are overwritten with 8-bit information and the phone can now understand them.
Update: I wrote a little console application to check which files have unicode tags.