Please default to standard-compliant WAV tagging [#5847]

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Please default to standard-compliant WAV tagging [#5847]

Post by chrisjj »

MM's default reading/writing of WAV tags (UTF-8 encoding in an ANSI field) is non-compliant with the standard (http://www.saettler.com/RIFFMCI/riffmci.html), causing written tags to have garbage characters when viewed by compliant programs, and causing tags in files written by compliant chars to faulty display in MM (see http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewto ... 90#p170990.)

I think very few if any other programs use MM's non-standard flavour (http://www.mediamonkey.com/support/inde ... icleid=111), so the only advantage I see in MM's behaviour is some increased functionailty in MM-to-MM round trip. This IMO does not outweigh the cost of the failures.

Hence i suggest that MM should be changed to use standard WAV tagging by default.

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Chris