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Topic: Convert APE to WAV, title+album displayed as ? for Chinese—how to fix? (Read 2734 times) previous topic - next topic
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Convert APE to WAV, title+album displayed as ? for Chinese—how to fix?

when converting APE files to WAV, Title and Album information are displayed as question mark. (for Chinese words only)...how to handle this?please.

Convert APE to WAV, title+album displayed as ? for Chinese—how to fix?

Reply #1 –
Upgrade to the latest version.
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Convert APE to WAV, title+album displayed as ? for Chinese—how to fix?

Reply #2 –
Do you mean that foobar2000 shows them as question marks? Or some other player shows them?

Convert APE to WAV, title+album displayed as ? for Chinese—how to fix?

Reply #3 –
Quote from: lvqcl on
Do you mean that foobar2000 shows them as question marks? Or some other player shows them?

Sorry. I mean when I playing them with WMplayer, the Title and Album will display as question marks. Yet if I open the WAV file with FB2K, everything is all right. Thanks.

Hi Shaky_snake,
I can't find a latest version than V1.1.10 at official website. Thanks.

Convert APE to WAV, title+album displayed as ? for Chinese—how to fix?

Reply #4 –
Quote from: lyzzywl on
Sorry. I mean when I playing them with WMplayer, the Title and Album will display as question marks. Yet if I open the WAV file with FB2K, everything is all right. Thanks.

fb2k writes ASCII only tags into LIST/INFO chunk, and Unicode ID3v2 tags into ID3 chunk.
WMP (and many other softwares supporting wave file tagging) handle only LIST/INFO chunk.

In your case, Chinese characters are not representable with ASCII encoding. Therefore, fb2k will put question marks (????) into LIST/INFO tag, and other softwares display it.

Convert APE to WAV, title+album displayed as ? for Chinese—how to fix?

Reply #5 –
OK. I know how it comes now, then can you please tell me how to fix it? or where can I find some stuff such as patchs or plugin to handle? Thanks a lot.

Convert APE to WAV, title+album displayed as ? for Chinese—how to fix?

Reply #6 –
IMHO it's not possible to write chinese characters into LIST/INFO tags. So, what do you want to patch?

Convert APE to WAV, title+album displayed as ? for Chinese—how to fix?

Reply #7 –
Quote from: lyzzywl on
OK. I know how it comes now, then can you please tell me how to fix it? or where can I find some stuff such as patchs or plugin to handle? Thanks a lot.

Character encoding used for LIST/INFO is inconsistent among softwares, and also there's no defined way for LIST/INFO to declare or obtain the character encoding in use.
ASCII can be considered as a greatest common divisor. I guess this is why fb2k limits to ASCII for LIST/INFO.
In other words, it's probably intentional and won't fix.

In short, you'd better use lossless formats with better tagging support, such as FLAC.