diff -dPNur gst-plugins-good-0.10.16/configure.ac gst-plugins-good-0.10.16-ds/configure.ac
--- gst-plugins-good-0.10.16/configure.ac	2009-08-29 00:05:24.000000000 +0400
+++ gst-plugins-good-0.10.16-ds/configure.ac	2009-10-29 06:20:29.000000000 +0300
@@ -939,6 +939,13 @@
   AC_SUBST(BZ2_LIBS)
 ])
 
+dnl *** id3demux to use LibRCC
+translit(dnm, m, l) AM_CONDITIONAL(USE_LIBRCC, true)
+AG_GST_CHECK_FEATURE(LIBRCC, [librcc support for id3demux],, [
+  AG_GST_CHECK_LIBHEADER(LIBRCC, rcc, rccInit, ,librcc.h, LIBRCC_LIBS="-lrcc")
+  AC_SUBST(LIBRCC_LIBS)
+])
+
 else
 
 dnl not building plugins with external dependencies,
@@ -974,6 +981,7 @@
 AM_CONDITIONAL(USE_XSHM, false)
 AM_CONDITIONAL(USE_XVIDEO, false)
 AM_CONDITIONAL(USE_ZLIB, false)
+AM_CONDITIONAL(USE_LIBRCC, false)
 
 fi dnl of EXT plugins
 
diff -dPNur gst-plugins-good-0.10.16/gst/id3demux/gstid3demux.c gst-plugins-good-0.10.16-ds/gst/id3demux/gstid3demux.c
--- gst-plugins-good-0.10.16/gst/id3demux/gstid3demux.c	2009-08-11 02:15:55.000000000 +0400
+++ gst-plugins-good-0.10.16-ds/gst/id3demux/gstid3demux.c	2009-10-29 06:44:25.000000000 +0300
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@
 
 #include "gstid3demux.h"
 #include "id3tags.h"
+#include "rccpatch.h"
 
 static const GstElementDetails gst_id3demux_details =
 GST_ELEMENT_DETAILS ("ID3 tag demuxer",
@@ -107,11 +108,22 @@
 }
 
 static void
+gst_id3demux_finalize (GObject * object)
+{
+  GstID3Demux *demux = GST_ID3DEMUX (object);
+
+  rcc_patch_unref();
+  
+  G_OBJECT_CLASS (parent_class)->finalize (object);
+}
+
+static void
 gst_id3demux_class_init (GstID3DemuxClass * klass)
 {
   GstTagDemuxClass *tagdemux_class = (GstTagDemuxClass *) klass;
   GObjectClass *gobject_class = (GObjectClass *) klass;
 
+  gobject_class->finalize = gst_id3demux_finalize;
   gobject_class->set_property = gst_id3demux_set_property;
   gobject_class->get_property = gst_id3demux_get_property;
 
@@ -133,6 +145,7 @@
 gst_id3demux_init (GstID3Demux * id3demux, GstID3DemuxClass * klass)
 {
   id3demux->prefer_v1 = DEFAULT_PREFER_V1;
+  rcc_patch_ref();
 }
 
 static gboolean
diff -dPNur gst-plugins-good-0.10.16/gst/id3demux/id3v2frames.c gst-plugins-good-0.10.16-ds/gst/id3demux/id3v2frames.c
--- gst-plugins-good-0.10.16/gst/id3demux/id3v2frames.c	2009-08-11 02:15:55.000000000 +0400
+++ gst-plugins-good-0.10.16-ds/gst/id3demux/id3v2frames.c	2009-10-29 06:40:17.000000000 +0300
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
 #endif
 
 #include "id3tags.h"
+#include "rccpatch.h"
 
 GST_DEBUG_CATEGORY_EXTERN (id3demux_debug);
 #define GST_CAT_DEFAULT (id3demux_debug)
@@ -986,7 +987,12 @@
         utf8 = NULL;
       }
     }
-  }
+  } 
+
+  /* Try LibRCC library to detect encoding */
+  utf8 = rcc_patch_to_utf8(start, size);
+  if (utf8) goto beach;
+  
   /* Try current locale (if not UTF-8) */
   if (!g_get_charset (&env)) {
     if ((utf8 = g_locale_to_utf8 (start, size, &bytes_read, NULL, NULL))) {
diff -dPNur gst-plugins-good-0.10.16/gst/id3demux/Makefile.am gst-plugins-good-0.10.16-ds/gst/id3demux/Makefile.am
--- gst-plugins-good-0.10.16/gst/id3demux/Makefile.am	2009-08-11 02:15:55.000000000 +0400
+++ gst-plugins-good-0.10.16-ds/gst/id3demux/Makefile.am	2009-10-29 06:20:06.000000000 +0300
@@ -1,10 +1,15 @@
 plugin_LTLIBRARIES = libgstid3demux.la
 
-libgstid3demux_la_SOURCES = gstid3demux.c id3tags.c id3v2frames.c
+libgstid3demux_la_SOURCES = gstid3demux.c id3tags.c id3v2frames.c rccpatch.c
 libgstid3demux_la_CFLAGS = $(GST_PLUGINS_BASE_CFLAGS) $(GST_BASE_CFLAGS) $(GST_CFLAGS) 
 libgstid3demux_la_LIBADD = $(GST_PLUGINS_BASE_LIBS) -lgsttag-@GST_MAJORMINOR@ \
 	-lgstpbutils-@GST_MAJORMINOR@ $(GST_BASE_LIBS) $(ZLIB_LIBS)
 libgstid3demux_la_LDFLAGS = $(GST_PLUGIN_LDFLAGS)
 libgstid3demux_la_LIBTOOLFLAGS = --tag=disable-static
 
-noinst_HEADERS = gstid3demux.h id3tags.h
+if USE_LIBRCC
+    libgstid3demux_la_LIBADD +=  @LIBRCC_LIBS@
+endif
+
+
+noinst_HEADERS = gstid3demux.h id3tags.h rccpatch.h
diff -dPNur gst-plugins-good-0.10.16/gst/id3demux/rccpatch.c gst-plugins-good-0.10.16-ds/gst/id3demux/rccpatch.c
--- gst-plugins-good-0.10.16/gst/id3demux/rccpatch.c	1970-01-01 03:00:00.000000000 +0300
+++ gst-plugins-good-0.10.16-ds/gst/id3demux/rccpatch.c	2009-10-29 07:05:20.000000000 +0300
@@ -0,0 +1,91 @@
+#ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H 
+#include "config.h" 
+#endif 
+
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include "rccpatch.h"
+
+#ifdef HAVE_LIBRCC
+# include <librcc.h>
+#endif /* HAVE_LIBRCC */
+
+
+#ifdef HAVE_LIBRCC
+# define ID3_CLASS 0
+# define ID3V2_CLASS 1
+# define UTF_CLASS 2
+# define OUT_CLASS 3
+static rcc_class classes[] = {
+    { "id3", RCC_CLASS_STANDARD, NULL, NULL, "ID3 Encoding", 0 },
+    { "id3v2", RCC_CLASS_STANDARD, "id3", NULL, "ID3 v.2 Encoding", 0 },
+    { "utf", RCC_CLASS_KNOWN, "UTF-8", NULL, "Unicode Encoding", 0},
+    { "out", RCC_CLASS_TRANSLATE_LOCALE, "LC_CTYPE", NULL, "Output Encoding", 0 },
+    { NULL, RCC_CLASS_STANDARD, NULL, NULL, NULL, 0 }
+};
+
+static int rcc_initialized = 0;
+
+static rcc_context ctx = NULL;
+#endif /* HAVE_LIBRCC */
+
+
+static void rcc_patch_free() {
+#ifdef HAVE_LIBRCC
+    if (rcc_initialized) {
+	puts("clean");
+       rccFree();
+       rcc_initialized = 0;
+    }
+#endif /* HAVE_LIBRCC */
+}
+
+static void rcc_patch_init() {
+#ifdef HAVE_LIBRCC
+    if (rcc_initialized) return;
+    puts("init");
+    rccInit();
+    rccInitDefaultContext(NULL, 0, 0, classes, 0);
+    rccLoad(NULL, "xmms");
+    rccInitDb4(NULL, NULL, 0);
+    rcc_initialized = 1;
+#endif /* HAVE_LIBRCC */
+}
+
+static int registered = 0;
+static int ref_count = 0;
+static GStaticMutex lock = G_STATIC_MUTEX_INIT;
+
+void rcc_patch_ref() {
+    puts("ref");
+    g_static_mutex_lock(&lock);
+    if (!registered) {
+	g_atexit(rcc_patch_free);
+	registered = 1;
+    }
+    if (++ref_count==1) rcc_patch_init();
+    g_static_mutex_unlock(&lock);
+}
+
+void rcc_patch_unref() {
+    puts("unref");
+    g_static_mutex_lock(&lock);
+    if (--ref_count==0) rcc_patch_free();
+    g_static_mutex_unlock(&lock);
+}
+
+gchar *rcc_patch_to_utf8(const gchar *str, const guint size) {
+#ifdef HAVE_LIBRCC
+    gchar *res;
+
+    if (rcc_initialized) {
+	g_static_mutex_lock(&lock);
+	res = rccSizedRecode(ctx, ID3_CLASS, UTF_CLASS, str, size, NULL);
+	g_static_mutex_unlock(&lock);
+
+	return res;
+    }
+#endif /* HAVE_LIBRCC */
+
+    return  NULL;
+}
+
diff -dPNur gst-plugins-good-0.10.16/gst/id3demux/rccpatch.h gst-plugins-good-0.10.16-ds/gst/id3demux/rccpatch.h
--- gst-plugins-good-0.10.16/gst/id3demux/rccpatch.h	1970-01-01 03:00:00.000000000 +0300
+++ gst-plugins-good-0.10.16-ds/gst/id3demux/rccpatch.h	2009-10-29 06:23:58.000000000 +0300
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+#ifndef _RCC_PATCH_H
+#define _RCC_PATCH_H
+
+#include <gst/gst.h>
+
+void rcc_patch_ref();
+void rcc_patch_unref();
+
+gchar *rcc_patch_to_utf8(const gchar *str, const guint size);
+
+
+#endif /* _RCC_PATCH_H */