Total Commander

I have some mp3 files with Arabic names and tags (Windows 1256 Arabic encoding).

No problem with file names but tags are unreadable, something like this "ÊæÊÇá ßæãÇäÏÑ", this is true for the default player and all other players i tried. Can you add an option to specify the charset of tags if they are not UTF-8?

I learned how to auto convert mp3 tag charset to UTF-8, i tried that method with some files and it worked but i don't want to change all my mp3 files that way.

Unfortunately tags are handled by the Android media database (also in Total Commander), and it only seems to understand tags in UTF-8.

I did some test, look like TC's media player do NOT reload mp3 tag when play .m3u8 file
So you can edit the .m3u8 file, save it to UTF-8 charset.

TC does not cache tags by itself, this is all handled by the media database. And it doesn't take tags from m3u8, but from mp3 files themselves. In TC 2.05 beta, you can force reload the database by selecting some files, then pushing a button with internal command nr. 130: Reload /MTP->PC).

I found jetAudio Music Player which provides an option to select charset for non unicode tag
You can find the option in Preferences> Misc> Tag

I hope you can do the same.

It probably uses its own tag database and doesn't use the one from Android.