Fuck you iTunes!!!

[evanae]

ARGH. FUCKING iTUNES!!! ALSKDLKSSLS. >(

I can't get the damn thing to READ Japanese or Chinese. It's not even the dreaded boxes, all the songs are like this --> ¦³¤F§A´N¨¬°÷ ¤ý¤O§»

I have East Asian languages installed. Firefox shows it fine. I can even type in Japanese. But it's just iTunes that's being a stubborn little fuck.

I've tried to change the Language for non-Unicode Progs to Japanese and that didn't help. I've tried converting the ID3 tags to a more recent version, nada.

Anyone have any suggestions? :( Should I reinstall iTunes and hope to god it works?

I'm so frustrated w/ it that I'm sorely tempted to start use another prog just to be able to see the language correctly even if I can't read it. But the thing is, I don't like Winamp (not as user friendly or something IMO) or WMP (too damn slow) so I'm stuck w/ iTunes. :|

Comments

[ziggybecket.livejournal.com]

Ahh yah this is a silly language issue. The thing is with Chinese it could be using BIG5 or GB encoding. And Japanese it might be J-SHIFT or the other common language encoding. But iTunes uses Unicode.

Unicode is probably best now because it supports all languages and things like BIG5 and J-SHIFT were hacks to allow Asian languages before there was a read standard.

If you want to you can use NJStar and do a lot of cut and pasting. :/

The other option, which is what I use because I'm lazy, is look up the album on yesasia.com. Find the album and switch the web page to either Chinese/Japanese and copy and paste the correctly appearing characters in iTunes.

Ether way it's a pain in the ass.

[hybrid-twist.livejournal.com]

Why not look up a Japanese or Chinese music player program (if that's possible)? Otherwise, I think uninstalling and reinstalling is the only way to go about (maybe) fixing the code problem. =\

[evanae.livejournal.com]

*pif @ Mac*

My mom uses NJStar to type. XD But uhm...so basically if I do c/p the correct characs, iTunes will show it correctly instead of reverting back to symbols/boxes?

[evanae.livejournal.com]

Why not look up a Japanese or Chinese music player program (if that's possible)?
Cuz I also have English songs. Lol.

Lemme try Oscar's way and then if not, I'll reinstall and cross my fingers and toes. :x