media-sound/kid3-0.5 is not able to edit files containing umlauts and other special caracters. Please add this patch, submitted by Peter Korf on kid3's sourceforge page, to fix this issue. For me this patch apllies cleanly and fixes the problem. Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/amd64/2005.0, gcc-3.4.3, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.11-gentoo-r11 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r11 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.12 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.5 [2.3.5 (#1, Jun 17 2005, 21:37:51)] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5 sys-apps/sandbox: [Not Present] sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.8.5-r3, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.4_p6, 1.9.5 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.16 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r4 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=k8 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo/ ftp://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/ ftp://gentoo.inode.at/source/ http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/gentoo-mirror/ http://gentoo.tiscali.nl/gentoo/" LANG="de_DE.utf8" LC_ALL="de_DE.utf8" LINGUAS="de" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 X acpi alsa arts artswrappersuid berkdb bitmap-fonts cddb cdr crypt cups curl dvd dvdr dvdread encode esd fam flac font-server foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif gimpprint gphoto2 gpm gtk gtk2 imagemagick imlib ipv6 java jp2 jpeg kde lzw lzw-tiff mad mozilla mp3 mpeg nas ncurses network nls nptl nptlonly ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam perl png ppds python qt quicktime readline samba sdl spell ssl tcpd tidy tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb userlocales vorbis xine xml2 xpm xrandr xv zlib linguas_de userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LDFLAGS
Created attachment 62544 [details, diff] Patch to fix this issue
Hm, no cvs changes for eleven months now. I'm more inclined to say this project seems to be dead upstream, let's remove it from the tree; At least if there's nothing happening for another weeks. Why don't you use e.g. Juk for tagging, Jannick? sound herd, your opinion?
Hmm, I have to disagree Carsten. It's probably true that this project is dead, but kid3 is the only isolated id3tagger for kde3 and I don't want to install a whole mediaplayer just to edit some tags. Kid3 works very well, is easy to use and the only annoying bug is this "special caracter" issue, which can be solved by this simple patch. So I don't really understand, why we should remove it. I would be happy if we could leave kid3 in the tree for the moment and just apply the proposed patch. When kde4 will be released and nothing happens, we could think about removing it.
There's kid3-0.6 in portage now, closing.
