Russian Tags

[FireX_01]

Hello! I was wondering if there is any way to enable russian mp3 tags support in MM3-RC3. They work in WMP11, as well in MM2.5. Is this simply not supported yet? Or do i need to enable it in MM? Right now the tags appear garbled.

Thank you

[austin powers]

russian and many other non latin tags are supported in MM3 as well as in MM2.X. Though, to be displayed properly they must be encoded in UNICODE and not in language-specific codepage.

[Guest]

Hi,

if the cyrillic tag text appears ok in Windows Explorer (extended properties) or e.g. MP3tag, then try selecting all files in MP3tag and press SAVE to save them once again with the (standard, preset) option "UTF-16" enabled (in preferences -> tags -> mpeg).

If the tag text does not look ok in Windows or MP3tag (i.e. looks like this òóééà) then you first need to go to the Windows control panel, regional/language options, extended tab, where it says: language for programs, that dont support unicode. Select Russion/Cyrillic, OK. Restart computer. open MP3tag or similar (maybe even with MM, but I dont know), then as above, simply save all files again (utf-16, as ALWAYS...). Change setting in control panel again to your first language, restart windows.

Rgds,

Claude

[FireX_01]

thank you for replies. Yes I do have the correct language settings, and they show up correctly in every player I use except media monkey (I use Windows media player 11 as well as J River Media Center) The same files also showed up fine in MM 2.5 . If it is in fact a unicode problem, does anyone know where I might get a converter to either convert them to unicode or convert them to english phonetically (Russian words spelled with english language) ? Thank you

[Guest]

Your problem sounds really weird. The process I described worked for me, as written, for files, that don't show up correctly even in Windows Explorer (and, therefore, nowhere on that same computer system). The filenames were encodrd correctly, but not the tags.

So I don't understand why it does not work for you, but you might still give my proposition a try.

If it is in fact a unicode problem, does anyone know where I might get a converter to either convert them to unicode or convert them to english phonetically (Russian words spelled with english language) ? Thank you

I, too, looked for an auto-converter, but couldn't find one. But the process I described with the (free) MP3tag does just that, although you need to reboot twice (I am not talking about the general Windows language, see my posting). It works even for large file collections: you might need to set the option "include subfolders" in MP3tag, then drag your music root folder into the program and press save.

An online converter for text (clipboard text, not files!! So it won't help you, it's just for finding out which problem you might have) is here:
<http://web.ku.edu/~herron/encoder/encode_form.html>

If you are 100% sure that it worked in MM2.5 and you didn't change the tags, you might need to find someone here that has more knowledge of MM programming than I do.

Rgds,

Claude

[FireX_01]

Thank you, it worked!