How to correct ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags with EasyTag by converting them to Unicode- Install EasyTag
Code:
apt-get install easytag
- Run EasyTag:
- Go to Applications -> Sound & Video -> EasyTag
- Select "Settings" -> "Preferences"
- Select the "ID3 Settings tab"
- Check "Automatically convert old ID3v2 versions"
- Write "ID3v2-tag" version: ID3v2.4, Charset: Unicode
- Write "ID3v1-tag", Charset: Unicode, Additional settings for iconv: "//Translit"
- Check the "Non-standard" and select your encoding (Chinese Traditional BIG5, Chinese Simpliefied GB2312, Japanese EUC-JP, Cyrrilic Windows 1251, Hebrew Windows 1255, Arabic Windows 1256, Greek Windows 1253, Cyrrilic/Ukranian KOI8-U, Korean EUC-KR, Turkish Windows 1254 ...)
- Hit the OK button to apply the changes.
- Open your music folder with EasyTag.
- Click "Save file(s)" to save changes.
Solving the "Operation not supported" problem
EasyTag wasn't able to save many tags for me showing the following error in its log:
Code:
Operation not supported
I was able to fix the problem by changing ID3v2.4 onto ID3v2.3 on step 7.