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How to convert MP3 ID3 tag encodings on Linux

If your music player does not display some MP3 tracks correctly (e.g., with garbled symbols), it is most likely that the character encoding of ID3 tags is not supported on your Linux system. You can often encounter this problem when song titles or artist names are written in Cyrillic, Greek, Chinese, Japanese or Korean characters.

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