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seth

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Re: ABCDE eyed3 Error

+ echo 'tagtrack-mp3-1: returned code 1: nice' -n 10 eyeD3 --encoding utf8 -A Этажи -a 'Молчат Дома' -t 'На дне' -G 255 -n 1 -N 9 --encoding=utf8 --text-frame=TDRC:2020 /home/user/Downloads/abcde.7907cd09/track1.mp3

but doesn't say why - my guess is one of the doubled encoding parameters?

eyeD3 --encoding utf8 -A Этажи -a 'Молчат Дома' -t 'На дне' -G 255 -n 1 -N 9 --encoding=utf8 --text-frame=TDRC:2020 /home/user/Downloads/Молчат Дома - Этажи/1.*.mp3

eyeD3 --encoding utf8 -A Этажи -a 'Молчат Дома' -t 'На дне' -G 255 -n 1 -N 9 --text-frame=TDRC:2020 /home/user/Downloads/Молчат Дома - Этажи/1.*.mp3

eyeD3 -A Этажи -a 'Молчат Дома' -t 'На дне' -G 255 -n 1 -N 9 --encoding=utf8 --text-frame=TDRC:2020 /home/user/Downloads/Молчат Дома - Этажи/1.*.mp3

"--encoding utf8" comes from the "-E utf8" parameter, so drop that again.

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Mrlaura

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Registered: 2026-10-19

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Re: ABCDE eyed3 Error

Looking at the trace in #26, I think there may be two separate issues here.

The duplicated `--encoding` argument is worth removing as seth suggested, but I'd also check `-G 255` independently. The earlier traceback specifically complains about an unknown genre ID, so it might help to try the eyeD3 command without the genre argument and see whether the error changes.

For the Cyrillic text, the `Ð...` output looks more like a decoding problem than a Unicode normalization problem. I'd check where the text first becomes corrupted: MusicBrainz output, abcde's intermediate metadata, or the final ID3 tags. That should help narrow down which step is actually responsible.

There's a useful distinction between character encoding, normalization and transliteration explained here:
https://www.levenshtein.net/text-normal … literation

I don't think normalization would fix the garbled text in this case, though. The original bytes need to be interpreted with the correct encoding first.

I haven't reproduced this locally, but I'd start by isolating the genre error and checking the metadata before eyeD3 writes it, rather than changing several encoding options at once.

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Re: ABCDE eyed3 Error

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