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Hello,

somebody can tell me from where VLC fetches the title information of an MP3 file? I have an issue with VLC showing crypted title in window title bar for some files. However, none of the tools i used to investigate the tag fields confirms a crypted title. So, obviously VLC fetches this information from another place or in another way. It is important for me to know where this information comes from because i used to use a script to process mp3 file information and the script breaks for the same reason. For further investigation i'd like to know under which circumstances this type of title information is created, if its a tagger issue or a charset issue.

Any ideas or suggestions?

Nobody?

This is a bug. File a bugreport and Share a sample.

I'm not sure whether this is a bug. Note, when this file is processed by a TCL script the chattr command executed by the script extracts all headers and there the same thing happens breaking my script. I need to find the way this header is created to reconstruct the creation and see whether this happens through mabe a wrong charset or whatever to fix my script.

So i need to know from which header VLC reads this information no matter how its presented in the player window title.

Please tell me!