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nbruley Member
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1) When importing metadata with accents in a title, the title stops at the accent. Any way to fix this?

2) Is there any way to display file metadata like artist, album, description, comments also? I'm interested in a way to auto display that info below the mp3 image. Prob just a metadata extraction function I have to find on the web somewhere? Wouldn't have to be able to edit it except in the file I guess, though of course having access to that in the interface would be great. I could prob program in links for the displayed metadata also to search for that like you might a tag... or perhaps I would use the tag field for artist...

Thanks!

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  • acrylian Administrator, Developer
    1) Depends on the encoding used on your site. To work it should be set to UTF-8 everywhere.

    2) Yes, partly. We use this tool to get metadata from multimedia files and also MP3s. http://getid3.sourceforge.net/ (there is a demo what elements this can extract, we have setup it only for the formats Zenphoto supports).
    That is displayed by the normal metadata function that also images use. Of course to import and display them the fields need to be enabled on the meta data option.
  • sbillard Member
    For #1, the answer is really different. Much of the software that creates/stores this data does not bother to make a note of what character set the data is in. Even then, if it is not stored in UTF8 there is no standard for identifying that character set.

    The answer is you will need to figure out what the character set of the data is and tell Zenphoto via the options/image `IPTC encoding` setting.

    What is happening is that the database software is detecting an invalid character and truncating the string. The database is (typically) UTF-8, so if the characters of the IPTC data are not, Zenphoto must translate them. But to do that it needs to know what character set they are in to start with.
  • nbruley Member
    1) Well, I was using Windows Vista explorer to set the metadata, but I switched to Mp3tag v2.50 and changed the encoding to UTF8 and resaved the metadata, reimported, and it still truncated at the same place... then I noticed it was set to Western European in the options so changed that to Unicode UTF-8, reuploaded just for kicks, refreshed metadata, refreshed screen, no luck. What else can I try?

    Thanks for your help.
  • sbillard Member
    You will have to find out what character set the metadata REALLY is in and set it to that. Sorry, there is no simple answer.
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