[SOLVED] mpd error malformed utf-8 characters, possibly incorrectly encoded

[TheOldPresbyope]

@chaos333

I have a number of audio-related software tools which can read/edit metadata from a variety of file formats. They give conflicting views of the metadata data in your WAV file.

In desperation, I examined your WAV file with a hex editor. It turns out the LIST INFO chunk contains metadata using both RIFF-defined tags and ID3v23 tags. (RIFF is the parent file type of a WAV file; ID3v23 is a metadata tagging scheme developed originally for MP3 files.)

So, for example, the RIFF tag IPRD contains "????? ????? ????????" while the ID3v23 tag TALB contains "《和谐之声 为祖国祝福 长城独唱音乐会》".  Depending on the program reading the metadata, either of these may be interpreted as the album title. This explains the conflicting answers I get with my tools. It also suggests why you saw what you reported in your first post in this thread.

I looked at several WAV test files I found online. They also contained this mix of metadata tags but in their cases there were no conflicts; e.g., IPRD and TALB contained the same album title values; IART and TPE1 contained the same artist name values; etc.

Regards,
Kent