I am running Kubuntu on a 1.5gHz P4 machine with 256MB RAM. My music is stored on a mounted FAT32 partition. When the machine was running Windows XP Home I tagged about 20 gigs of music in Hebrew with Windows Media Player. Now, those ID3 are showing up as gibberish (Latin vowels with dots and slashes though them) in Amarok.

To resolve the problem, I took a test batch and converted the ID# tags to v2.4, and then converted them to UFT-8 (using eyeD3). But I see no improvment in the situation for the test batch.

Checking / unchecking the checkboxes for the encoding in Settings -> General -> Encoding has made no change either. Nor has changing the listed encoding there.

What can I do? You can see a screenshot of the situation at:
http://dotancohen.com/amarok.png

Thank you in advance.

Dotan Cohen

once selected the option to read the tags as utf8 you have to rebuild your collection, to renew all tag information stored in the database

pay attention on which db backend will you use. In my case amarok+utf8+mysql didnt work well, postgres did alright.

Problem solved. For future problem solving:
I had to change my locale to UTF-8. I had to mount the FAT32 partition with charset UTF-8. I had to override the latin encoding in the Amarok settings and use UTF-8. I then rebult the database and all was well.

Thank you!