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
You might try Chacon (http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Foobar2000:Components_0.9/Chacon_(foo_chacon)).
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.
thx, it work
i never thought that official foobar component will get updated , i should looked there first next time
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.
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.
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)