japanese tag/character messed up Options

[kiriee]

hey when i first install foobar2000 1*, I realize that it didnt support Japanese character but after i change system locale foobar able to read it, but for sometime a realize that foobar starting to messed up my title and artist tag.

my question how to fix this problem, i read about masstag but since its for foobar 0.9, i cant use it. other thing about writing to id3v2. but i dont know how to

[Yirkha]

You might try Chacon.

[スラッシュ]

I can confirm that Chacon works on everything I've tried it on (Japanese in various formats and Korean). An alternative is also to get the freedb tagger.

This post has been edited by スラッシュ: Aug 23 2010, 04:09

[kiriee]

thx, it work

i never thought that official foobar component will get updated , i should looked there first next time

[nevets1219]

For freedb, you can use freedbtest.dyndns.org

I'm not sure if there are other options out there but I've been using this for a while and it's good. Post if you know of any other good ones.

[Sandrine]

hey when i first install foobar2000 1*, I realize that it didnt support Japanese character but after i change system locale foobar able to read it [...]

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but AFAIK foobar started using utf-8 only around version 1.0. If your tags were written with a previous version, you would probably have them as Shift-JIS, so you'd have to convert them to UTF-8 with chacon. No need to change the system locale, though.

[shakey_snake]

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but AFAIK foobar started using utf-8 only around version 1.0.

You are wrong. fb2k has used UTF-8 for as long as it has tagged id3v2.

For other tagging formats it has always used the format's specified character encoding (e.g. vorbis comments are UTF-8)