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Originally, the project was aimed to provide means to work with multiple encodings of the same language through adapting encoding of ID3 tags, M3U and PLS playlists (including file names) to local settings on-the-fly. Both the tag reading and writing back using any selected encoding was supported.
Nowadays there are library available providing the same functionality for almost any program with just a few lines of code. The library is not limited to ID3 tags, it can be useful for any program working with small titles or file names in different languages and encodings. The patches for several music players, ID3 tag libraries and some other programs are available on the project page.

The Abilities of RusXMMS2 Project Library

  • Language Autodetection
  • On the fly translation between languages, using online-services!
  • Encoding Autodetection for most of European and Asian Languages
  • Support for encoding detection plugins (besides Enca, LibGUESS and LibRCD)
  • Recoding/translation of multi-language playlists!
  • Cache to speed-up re-recoding.
  • Possibility to configure new languages and encodings.
  • Shared configuration file. For example mentioned TagLib and LibID3 patches do not have their own user interface, but will utilize the same recoding configuration as XMMS.
  • As well the separate program for configuration adjustment is available.
  • GTK/GTK2 UI Library: you can add properties page to your GTK application with 3 lines of code.
  • Menu localization opportunity

The Available Patches and Utilities

  • RusXMMS: Visualization and editing of the whole range of ID3 tags using any of eight byte or unicode encodings. Support for playlists with non-english filenames. The translation of foreign languages to english or locale one is supported as well. The embeded properties page. The patch makes XMMS the best player to work with ID3 titles.
  • TagLib: Visualization and editing of ID3 v.1 and v.2 titles. Any TagLib based application will correctly work with ID3 tags out of the box. The properties page can be added to application with several lines of code. Additionaly, after applying the patch, the 'tagwriter' program from the TagLib examples can be used to convert titles of all your MP3 files to unicode ID3 v.2 tags just using command: "tagwriter *.mp3".
  • LibID3Tag: Visualization of ID3 v.1 and v.2 titles. Any LibID3Tag based application will correctly display (but not edit) ID3 tags out of the box.
  • LibID3: Visualization of ID3 v.1 and v.2 titles. Any LibID3 based application will correctly display (but not edit) ID3 tags out of the box.
  • Mpg123: Visualization of ID3 v.1 titles.
  • GFtp: Recoding file names between FTP servers using different encodings.
  • Unzip: Recoding file names from Windows created archives.
  • 7zip: Fixes file names in zip archives (7z archives have not that problem out of the box).
  • MOC: Recoding ID3 tags (included in 2.4.0)
  • RCCTools: Command line interface to LibRCC library. It is a highly configurable tool (supports almost all library functionality) which allows to recode standard input on the per-line basis. Additionaly, there is a special mode providing a way to bring the names of all files in the specified directory to appropriate form (to the specified encoding, transliterate all names to english, translate all names to english, etc.)


Distribution
  • From project page you can download patch sources and binary packages for quantity of distributions: Mandrake, Slackware, SuSe, RedHat, Debian,Ubuntu. The Gentoo Overlay is available as well. However, all this binaries are maid by different people and not always updated with new version of the RusXMMS or Linux distribution. So, if there are no appropriate binary - build from sources and send builded packages to me ;)
  • Xmms distributed with ALT Sisyphus, and Mandriva Linux has rusxmms patch applied (Mandriva uses first generation of patch).
  • In case of you have made binary releases for other Linux distributions and want to share them with other users, please, contact me.
  • DISCLAIMER: If you want patches presented here to be included in the correspondent project trees, please, ask authors. I can not help with that. The same thing should be concerned about inclusion of LibRCC and LibRCD in the various Linux distributions.


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NEWS



14.04.2008 Few patches are updated, and one new is provided
  • Patch for Libid3tag is provided
  • Patch for taglib is updated to taglib-1.5
  • Patch for p7zip is updated to p7zip-4.57
  • Patch for unzip now respects the rcc configuration
  • Patch fixing segfaults on AMD64 for MAC 3.99 (Monkey Audio Codec) is provided
  • The Gentoo Overlay is now available
13.01.2008 LibRCC 0.2.6, LibRCD 0.1.11: FreeBSD compatibility fixes of autoconf scripts. Upgrade is only required if you expirience compilation problems. No other changes are included. Many thanks to Ulrich Spoerlein for patches.

25.11.2007 RusXMMS csa41: Support of xmms-1.2.11

28.06.2007 New service description file for LibTranslate with support of Translate.ru and Pereklad.ua engines. The Libtranslate patches from here are mandatory should be applied in order to support new services.

28.06.2007 LibRCC 0.2.5, LibRCD 0.1.10:
  • Detection of genuine ISO-8859-1 encoding by LibRCD.
  • Support for LibGUESS library which is providing encoding autodetection for Chinese, Korean and Japanese languages.
  • Better Enca support (correction of wrong encoding names).
  • Improvements of the translation engine.
  • Compilation fixes for FreeBSD. Thanks to D. Panov.
  • Fixes of UI translation routines.
  • Support for external IConv library and LibCharset.
  • Most of preconfigured languages are moved out to configuration file.
04.05.2007 Some information is added to wiki

23.04.2007 Patch fixing compilation in some rare configurations

16.04.2007 Various updates (important for Gentoo users):
  • RCCTools - Command line interface to LibRCC library. Recodes standard input, renames files in the directories.
  • New patches: p7zip (Zip archives), mpg123 v. 0.65
  • New fixed unzip patch: Old patch fails the openoffice build on several platforms (The build executes unzip during install, but openoffice changes environment and uses embeddded berkeley db4 library incompatible with the system one. Therefore, unzip fails complaining on the linkage problems. The new patch uses lazy linking, and if there are some problems with librcc the unzip application will work just without recoding).
  • New Gentoo portage with various xmms packages included (Which are nowadays ripped from the official Gentoo portage). If you want me to include more XMMS related packages in the portage, please, leave a note with the package names on the forum.
  • Wiki, but still empty.