Server Version#: 1.25.5.5492
Player Version#: Plex for Mac 1.40.1.2823-6f60f3a7
Problem description
Use Mp3tag to write music tag
Plex identifies the Chinese of music tag as garbled code
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Can someone help solve the problem that plex reads the music file tag and displays the garbled code in Chinese? thank you
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help…
help…
Is it possible you can give me a sample file I can test with
The forum can only upload pictures, not attachments, so it uses the external chain . Thanks for your help @BigWheel
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Excuse me, Did you find the reason? thank you @BigWheel
Did you find any problems? thank you
Still looking into it but it seem to be only an issue with .WAV files. MP3 files seem fine.
Excuse me, Is there any progress on this issue? thank you
It is a work in progress. I’m sorry I don’t have any ETA
Excuse me, Is there any progress on this issue? thank you
Ups, and sorry…
Wav files will not support embedded tags, since we use FFMPEG to analyze the file, and that currently doesn’t support it 
Hello, please use the following wav file for testing. Plex supports wav embedded tags and needs to solve the problem of garbled Chinese display. thank you
test.wav.zip (1.3 MB)
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We rely on FFmpeg (mainly) for reading embedded metadata. As far as I can tell, it doesn’t handle these WAV files very well.
You can run ffprobe on the files which exhibits the same behaviour:
ffprobe test.wav
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[wav @ 0x55f2e00a4ac0] Discarding ID3 tags because more suitable tags were found.
Input #0, wav, from 'test.wav':
Metadata:
album : Test
artist : M2M
title : Test Music ��������
Duration: 00:00:17.91, bitrate: 705 kb/s
Stream #0:0: Audio: pcm_s16le ([1][0][0][0] / 0x0001), 22050 Hz, 2 channels, s16, 705 kb/s
I’m adding this to our issue board but it’s not something that’s going to get looked at any time soon as it’s a very small amount of users this affects and it’s also an issue residing in a 3rd party library (not within Plex itself).
I would always recommend avoid using WAV files for personal music libraries where you can and use FLAC, or similar lossless formats instead which have much better metadata tagging support.
