Looking For mp3 ID Tag Module

[Tim Daneliuk]

Iñigo Serna wrote:
> On 8/18/06, Tim Daneliuk <tundra at tundraware.com> wrote:
>> > try mutagen. 
>> http://www.sacredchao.net/quodlibet/wiki/Development/Mutagen
>>
>> This module is more-or-less exactly what I needed.  However, I am running
>> into problems when the filenames or ID tags have unicode characters in 
>> them.
>>
>> Typically, I do something like:
>>
>> from mutagen.easyid3 import EasyID3
>>
>> audio["title'] = Something based on the filename that has unicode 
>> chars in it
>>
>> I then get this:
>>
>> UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xfc in position 
>> 56: ordinal not in range(128)
> 
>> From the docs:
> """Mutagen has full Unicode support for all formats. When you assign
> text strings, we strongly recommend using Python unicode objects
> rather than str objects. If you use str objects, Mutagen will assume
> they are in UTF-8."""
> 
> So I suppose the value you try to assign as title is not unicode,
> check the encoding used in the file system.
> 
> Iñigo

I am trying to set the title based on the filename.  The file is in a Win32
NTFS filesystem, so it could have non-ASCII chars in it.  What I am stumbling
on it how to coerce it into unicode.  I have tried:

name = filename.split(....) blah blah blah
audio["title"] = unicode(name)

But I still get this error.  I am not real up to speed on the whole unicode
end of things, so any kind suggestions would be most welcome.

By the way, I believe the offending string contains a German umlaut, at least in one
of the cases.


Similarly, when I just try to *read* a tag, I get these kinds of errors:

print audio["title"]

Will sometimes choke ...

Thanks for the help..

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