taglib sharp id3v1 tag, question marks instead of Russian letters

Question

I'm running following code:

TagLib.File f = TagLib.File.Create(path);
f.Tag.AlbumArtists = f.Tag.Artists = new string[] { "артист" };
f.Tag.Title = "песня";
f.Save();

Both id3v1 and id3v2 tags are set, but only id3v2 tag is set properly. v1 tag shows me only "????????" question marks instead of letters.

Can someone help me? Thanks!

Answer 1

ID3v1 is an old standart and support only ANSI characters.

See more information here.

Answer 2

Unfortunatley, TagLib makes some encodings inside. I've testen over 100 mp3 files. And I'm real confused: why some of them I can update with CYR texts inside of TAGs, but the same time some of them have "?????". The same code!

I've combined Tags and Properties - nothing differed. But! Some files have 2 Tags "collections": ID3v2, ID3v2 and ID3v1. In this case I can change Tags with CYR chars. What that means "ID3v2, ID3v2" I've didn't undrestood. Why 2 same - no answer.

I have a look some codes of TagLib# and fond there "this.encoding = ...". After that I've stoped analyze "why" and "where".

Vlad L, just use Translit for those files. I thing TagLib# detect charset and gives you no chance to change it (1251 != 1252 etc.)