# Corrupted Freedb data

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/corrupted-freedb-data/2990
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [March 3, 2006, 5:58am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/corrupted-freedb-data/2990 "2006-03-03T05:58:24Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![drbob](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/3be4f8/32.png) [@drbob](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/drbob)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2006, 5:58am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/corrupted-freedb-data/2990/1 "2006-03-03T05:58:24Z")

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mp3tag corrupts track data from Freedb when they contain cyrillic characters. The data in the database is correct, I checked it with another program.

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### Author: ![Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/florian/32/5759_2.png) [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2006, 6:57am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/corrupted-freedb-data/2990/2 "2006-03-03T06:57:09Z")

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The data in the freedb was stored in the (cyrillic) system codepage and not as UTF-8. You have to use Utils \> Convert codepage to fix it by yourself.

Not a bug.

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### Author: ![system](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/c/ce7035d426cb755a7916793326d23b465222a407.png) [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:19pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/corrupted-freedb-data/2990/3 "2026-02-09T12:19:40Z")

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