# Mixmeister BPM Analyzer Tags always UTF-16 but ahown as ISO-8859-1
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mixmeister-bpm-analyzer-tags-always-utf-16-but-ahown-as-iso-8859-1/7290
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [October 5, 2008, 8:20am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mixmeister-bpm-analyzer-tags-always-utf-16-but-ahown-as-iso-8859-1/7290 "2008-10-05T08:20:48Z")
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### Author:  [@Moonbase](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Moonbase)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2008, 8:20am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mixmeister-bpm-analyzer-tags-always-utf-16-but-ahown-as-iso-8859-1/7290/1 "2008-10-05T08:20:48Z")
I just diagnosed some problems someone had using the »Mixmeister BPM Analyzer« and found that it _always_ stores the ID3v2.3 TBPM tag in UTF-16 format—even in a file that otherwise uses ISO-8859-1. Sadly enough, if the TPBM tag is nonexistant, Mixmeister will _rewrite_ ALL tags as UTF-16. (If TBPM was there before, only TPBM will be re-saved using UTF-16, all other tags will be left as they are, resulting in a mixed ISO/UTF tagged file.)
This can be quite some hassle on larger collections using ISO tags—after spending days for Mixmeister to calculate all BPM values, you’d have to rewrite the whole collection back to ISO-8859-1 using MP3Tag (which, in turn, will _also_ take some days).
Since ideally one should have only ONE kind of encoding in any one file (or the whole collection, at best), I now used MP3Tag to »detect« if files were corrupt. I set up two extra columns containing **%\_tag%** and **%\_id3v2\_character\_encoding%** to do that.
It turns out that for any given file that had ID3v2.3 ISO-8859-1 encoding before and got the TPBM tag updated using Mixmeister BPM Analyzer the %\_id3v2\_character\_encoding% still shows _ISO-8859-1_. Since, in ID3v2, _all_ Text Frames have an encoding flag, I assume that MP3Tag just detects the encoding from the first text frame found, _not_ by checking ALL text frames.
For diagnosing problems with mixed character encoding, I’d very much like if there were some means of detecting that. Maybe just some flag that states »mixed encoding« or the like, just to be able to check for which files the tags should be re-saved using MP3Tag (which it does beautifully).
Any chance, Florian?
In the meantime, for all of us using Mixmeister BPM Analyzer AND ID3v2 ISO-8859-1 tags, here's the recommended procedure:
1. Use Mixmeister BPM Analyzer to calculate and save the BPM.
2. Open all changed files in MP3Tag, have it set to write ID3v2 with ISO-8859-1 encoding, and re-save all tags (mark all using Ctrl-A, right-click the selection and select »Save Tag« (or press the diskette button in the toolbar).
3. Re-read the tags into any applications that have their own »media libraries«, i.e. cache the data. (Windows Media Player, newer Winamp versions, SAM, MusicIP Mixer, etc.)
4. Be aware that we knowingly _violate the standard:_ TBPM is supposed to hold a numeric _integer_ value but BPM Analyzer (and other tools) write a xxx.xx _float_ value into this field! (Then again, as any good DJ will tell you, we _need_ about .05 BPM precision to make real good mixes …)
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### Author:  [@nyil](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/nyil)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2009, 12:48am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mixmeister-bpm-analyzer-tags-always-utf-16-but-ahown-as-iso-8859-1/7290/2 "2009-03-02T00:48:21Z")
Hi !
I just would like to see the BPM value - that created by MixMeister - in my Mp3tag.
At first I created an extra column for BPM :
On the "Adjust visibility of the columns" panel:
Name: Bpm
Value: %bpm%
Field: BPM
Sort by:
Than I loaded to MixMeister some mp3 files and it makes BPM rates.
After these I loaded to my Mp3tag(v2.42) the appropriate files, but I saw nothing in the column of Bpm!
What should I do to Mp3tag let shows the Bpm rate.
Thanks for all of help!
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2009, 7:35pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mixmeister-bpm-analyzer-tags-always-utf-16-but-ahown-as-iso-8859-1/7290/3 "2009-03-10T19:35:06Z")
Use %bpm% for both field and value.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:21pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mixmeister-bpm-analyzer-tags-always-utf-16-but-ahown-as-iso-8859-1/7290/4 "2026-02-09T12:21:08Z")