Thread: Strange characters suddenly showing up in music names...

dont know why this happens, but it does. what i do to fix it:

1) download 'id3-tagit 3'
2) navigate to the folder with the music with the bad tags
3) open that folder, and push ctrl-A (select all) of the songs which have the bad tags
-if you dont konw which ones they are, you might as well do all of them cuz it wont hurt.
4) after selectign the songs go to the menu on top to 'extended functions' and then to 'change tag ver. 2 text encoding'
5) make sure both of the drop down menus say ANSI coding (default)
6) click ok
7) ctrl-s to save
8) repeat for music in other folders

its kinda lengthy, but it works for me.

Thanks a ton Tundra. I'm willing to do what it takes to fix it. The strange thing is that it just randomly started happening recently. I don't think I changed anything in the ID3 Format settings, but it's highly possible that I was drunk. (I don't drive when I'm drunk, I swear, but I DO play with RR in the driveway after a few Jack Daniels').

Originally Posted by Nola111

Thanks a ton Tundra. I'm willing to do what it takes to fix it. The strange thing is that it just randomly started happening recently. I don't think I changed anything in the ID3 Format settings, but it's highly possible that I was drunk. (I don't drive when I'm drunk, I swear, but I DO play with RR in the driveway after a few Jack Daniels').

lol yea it was weird it just started happenin to me one day and now it happens pretty frequently. at least i can fix it.

Yeah, it started noticing that too. I think it me be related to adding new music the library. But I found that simply shutting down and restarting RR seems to make it go away.

It started doing it to mine when I used a different program to edit the tags than normal, usually used winamp.

this happens when using unicode ID3 tags..the tags are not bad it is just that visualBasic can not handle unicode text..
the solutions are the following,
either
1. download a tag program like Tagscanner, and remove the unicode tags.
2. select "prefer ID3 v1 in rrconfig...(unicode text is only written in ID3v2 and above..so if you use v1 there will be no unicode in there, but you will miss the features of v2 e.g long text strings, more fields etc..

the problem that arises form that is that people with foreign ID3 (greek russion chinese) are not able to display the characters correctly in either case..what i mean is if they use unicode + ID3v2, RR will not display the correctly, if they use ID3v1 then they will display coorectly but only for ONE language (the language chosen in the control panels regional settings under "select a language to match the language of the non-unicode programs you want to use" in the Advanced panel..
so no way to have greek + russian + english ID3 all together..
and Guino correct me if i am wrong, there is actually no solution for that, except maybe let me think....using Flash playlists and tags directly connected to winamp??? is that possible and maybe Cdrscull can inlighten us....ah by the way i might start a new thread on that

Any updates on this?
Nomader> did you start a new thread?

iceman, i'm confused. why would you want to know an update if nomad answered how to fix this? (in rr config)

He didnt actually fix this, he found a workaround. I dont want to retag all my MP3's, but more importantly, I dont know which ones I NEED to retag until they show up in RR with bad characters. Also, I think he was refering this to a new thread and checking if CdR could him him... neither of which I was sure had occurred.