Library can handle MP3 id3tag encoding

[Michael T. Dean]

On 05/27/2008 09:58 PM, Bin Chen wrote:
> Is there a good library can handle MP3 id3tag encoding easily? AFAIK,
> the encoding that in the id3tag can't be decided, it maybe ASCII,
> UTF-8 and others which sometimes cause the software to decode some
> error character.
> The libid3tag can do raw reading to id3tag but not handle the encoding easily.

Have you looked at TagLib?  
http://developer.kde.org/~wheeler/taglib.html  (Though it's at the KDE 
website, it doesn't require the KDE libs.)  Don't know how well it 
handles encodings, but MythMusic recently switched from libid3tag to TagLib.

Mike