diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 63219a1a7..56533ff6a 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ ver 0.20 (not yet released)
   - ape, ogg: drop support for non-standard tag "album artist"
     affected filetypes: vorbis, flac, opus & all files with ape2 tags
     (most importantly some mp3s)
+  - id3: remove the "id3v1_encoding" setting; by definition, all ID3v1 tags
+    are ISO-Latin-1
 * decoder
   - ffmpeg: support ReplayGain and MixRamp
   - ffmpeg: support stream tags
diff --git a/doc/mpd.conf.5 b/doc/mpd.conf.5
index 0cd6c313d..23b319d8a 100644
--- a/doc/mpd.conf.5
+++ b/doc/mpd.conf.5
@@ -156,12 +156,6 @@ This specifies the character set used for the filesystem.  A list of supported
 character sets can be obtained by running "iconv \-l".  The default is
 determined from the locale when the db was originally created.
 .TP
-.B id3v1_encoding <charset>
-This specifies the character set which ID3v1 tags are encoded in.  A list of
-supported character sets can be obtained by running "iconv \-l".  The default is
-to let libid3tag convert them (from ISO-8859-1, as the standard specifies) and
-do no additional conversion.
-.TP
 .B gapless_mp3_playback <yes or no>
 This specifies whether to support gapless playback of MP3s which have the
 necessary headers.  Useful if your MP3s have headers with incorrect
diff --git a/doc/mpdconf.example b/doc/mpdconf.example
index 73a71f1f4..bf407ea4e 100644
--- a/doc/mpdconf.example
+++ b/doc/mpdconf.example
@@ -373,8 +373,4 @@ input {
 #
 #filesystem_charset		"UTF-8"
 #
-# This setting controls the encoding that ID3v1 tags should be converted from.
-#
-#id3v1_encoding			"ISO-8859-1"
-#
 ###############################################################################
diff --git a/src/config/ConfigTemplates.cxx b/src/config/ConfigTemplates.cxx
index 44eb6c252..b5f0c3e93 100644
--- a/src/config/ConfigTemplates.cxx
+++ b/src/config/ConfigTemplates.cxx
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ const ConfigTemplate config_param_templates[] = {
 	{ "max_command_list_size" },
 	{ "max_output_buffer_size" },
 	{ "filesystem_charset" },
-	{ "id3v1_encoding" },
+	{ "id3v1_encoding", false, true },
 	{ "metadata_to_use" },
 	{ "save_absolute_paths_in_playlists" },
 	{ "gapless_mp3_playback" },
diff --git a/src/tag/TagId3.cxx b/src/tag/TagId3.cxx
index 98f85daff..288f239d1 100644
--- a/src/tag/TagId3.cxx
+++ b/src/tag/TagId3.cxx
@@ -33,10 +33,6 @@
 #include "fs/Path.hxx"
 #include "fs/FileSystem.hxx"
 
-#ifdef HAVE_GLIB
-#include <glib.h>
-#endif
-
 #include <id3tag.h>
 
 #include <string>
@@ -91,43 +87,11 @@ tag_id3_getstring(const struct id3_frame *frame, unsigned i)
 /* This will try to convert a string to utf-8,
  */
 static id3_utf8_t *
-import_id3_string(bool is_id3v1, const id3_ucs4_t *ucs4)
+import_id3_string(const id3_ucs4_t *ucs4)
 {
-	id3_utf8_t *utf8;
-
-#ifdef HAVE_GLIB
-	/* use encoding field here? */
-	const char *encoding;
-	if (is_id3v1 &&
-	    (encoding = config_get_string(ConfigOption::ID3V1_ENCODING,
-					  nullptr)) != nullptr) {
-		id3_latin1_t *isostr = id3_ucs4_latin1duplicate(ucs4);
-		if (gcc_unlikely(isostr == nullptr))
-			return nullptr;
-
-		utf8 = (id3_utf8_t *)
-			g_convert_with_fallback((const char*)isostr, -1,
-						"utf-8", encoding,
-						nullptr, nullptr,
-						nullptr, nullptr);
-		if (utf8 == nullptr) {
-			FormatWarning(id3_domain,
-				      "Unable to convert %s string to UTF-8: '%s'",
-				      encoding, isostr);
-			free(isostr);
-			return nullptr;
-		}
-		free(isostr);
-	} else {
-#else
-		(void)is_id3v1;
-#endif
-		utf8 = id3_ucs4_utf8duplicate(ucs4);
-		if (gcc_unlikely(utf8 == nullptr))
-			return nullptr;
-#ifdef HAVE_GLIB
-	}
-#endif
+	id3_utf8_t *utf8 = id3_ucs4_utf8duplicate(ucs4);
+	if (gcc_unlikely(utf8 == nullptr))
+		return nullptr;
 
 	id3_utf8_t *utf8_stripped = (id3_utf8_t *)
 		xstrdup(Strip((char *)utf8));
@@ -144,7 +108,7 @@ import_id3_string(bool is_id3v1, const id3_ucs4_t *ucs4)
  * - string list
  */
 static void
-tag_id3_import_text_frame(struct id3_tag *tag, const struct id3_frame *frame,
+tag_id3_import_text_frame(const struct id3_frame *frame,
 			  TagType type,
 			  const struct tag_handler *handler, void *handler_ctx)
 {
@@ -173,7 +137,7 @@ tag_id3_import_text_frame(struct id3_tag *tag, const struct id3_frame *frame,
 		if (type == TAG_GENRE)
 			ucs4 = id3_genre_name(ucs4);
 
-		id3_utf8_t *utf8 = import_id3_string(tag_is_id3v1(tag), ucs4);
+		id3_utf8_t *utf8 = import_id3_string(ucs4);
 		if (utf8 == nullptr)
 			continue;
 
@@ -194,7 +158,7 @@ tag_id3_import_text(struct id3_tag *tag, const char *id, TagType type,
 	const struct id3_frame *frame;
 	for (unsigned i = 0;
 	     (frame = id3_tag_findframe(tag, id, i)) != nullptr; ++i)
-		tag_id3_import_text_frame(tag, frame, type,
+		tag_id3_import_text_frame(frame, type,
 					  handler, handler_ctx);
 }
 
@@ -208,8 +172,7 @@ tag_id3_import_text(struct id3_tag *tag, const char *id, TagType type,
  * - full string (we use this one)
  */
 static void
-tag_id3_import_comment_frame(struct id3_tag *tag,
-			     const struct id3_frame *frame, TagType type,
+tag_id3_import_comment_frame(const struct id3_frame *frame, TagType type,
 			     const struct tag_handler *handler,
 			     void *handler_ctx)
 {
@@ -225,7 +188,7 @@ tag_id3_import_comment_frame(struct id3_tag *tag,
 	if (ucs4 == nullptr)
 		return;
 
-	id3_utf8_t *utf8 = import_id3_string(tag_is_id3v1(tag), ucs4);
+	id3_utf8_t *utf8 = import_id3_string(ucs4);
 	if (utf8 == nullptr)
 		return;
 
@@ -244,7 +207,7 @@ tag_id3_import_comment(struct id3_tag *tag, const char *id, TagType type,
 	const struct id3_frame *frame;
 	for (unsigned i = 0;
 	     (frame = id3_tag_findframe(tag, id, i)) != nullptr; ++i)
-		tag_id3_import_comment_frame(tag, frame, type,
+		tag_id3_import_comment_frame(frame, type,
 					     handler, handler_ctx);
 }