Re: [Easytag-mailing] Japanese and english text = problems

[Andrew Conkling <andrew conkling gmail com>]

I'm not sure about this, but I know that MP3s often are more limited
in what they can handle from non-English encodings.  If these are
MP3s, that could be part of the problem.  If you have any OGGs/FLACs
around to test, I'd be interested to see how they behaved.  (And yeah,
Unicode works wonders.)

These are MP3s, right?

On 2/5/06, Dullin Panuru <dullin gmail com> wrote:
> It seems that the way EasyTag handles field when there is both English
> and Japanese in a field is not top notch. I was happily tagging away and
> everything seemed fine. I was finding the albums automatically with the
> CD database search which returned me with Japanese track listing and
> applied to the directory the music was in and everything was dandy when
> checking the files.
>
> Unfortunately, problems popped-up when I tried using those file in my
> favourite music player Amarok. The album I tried to tag not only didn't
> display things properly but misplaced information. First of all I will
> display the track listing of the album :
> album name
> ファイナルファンタジー  V マンボdeチョコボ
> Artist
> セニョール植松とマンボ・パンチョス
>
> Track listing
>
> http://gamerseden.kir.jp/soundtrack/ff/ff5manbo.html (in case something
> goes wrong in the mailing-list encoding.
>
> マンボ de チョコボ
> 飛竜の山　（ゲーム未収録曲）
> オープニング・アイディア Version2　（ゲーム未収録曲）
> 飛空艇 Version2　（ゲーム未収録曲）
> FINAL FANTASY MEGAMIX
>
> Now here is what the tags looked like after saving, changing directory
> and coming back in it
> Album name
> ￕﾡﾤￊ￫ￕﾡ￳﾿ﾸ?　￞￳ￜde￁￧ﾳￜ
>
> Artist
> ﾻￋ￧￫植松と￞￳ￜ￑￳￁￧ﾹ
>
> Track listing
> ￞￳ￜde￁￧ﾳￜ
> ￛￜの山（ﾲ￠未ￎ録￲）
> ﾪￗￋ￳ﾰﾢﾤￇﾢVersion2（ﾲ￠未ￎ録￲）
> ￛ空艇Version2（ﾲ￠未ￎ録￲）
> FINAL FANTASY MEGAMIX
>
> Now even weirder is the fact that under Amarok, all the titles are
> displayed correctly but the first 4 tracks have their album name
> replaced with their track number with a 0 in front of it (like 01, 02,
> 03 and 04)and all their album names are blank but the year,genre and
> track number are all correct.
>
> I tried fiddling with the encoding settings but I did not have any
> success (tried putting everything in Unicode mostly).
>
> One last thing, in the album CD data base search the album name was
> reported incorectly to the tags also as ファイナルファンタジー?　マンボ
> deチョコボ (notice the ? in the middle).
>
> Could anyone report on what is happening and maybe shed light on how to
> make things work.
>
> Thanks a million for this program it saved me countless hours of boring
> renaming.

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