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iTunes puts weird words for Russian songs I import.
I downloaded a MP3 file. The name of the file was in russian letters. I imported it to iTunes. The name, artist, and album fields were filled. But not what I expected. They were filled with À Íà Òàíöïîëå Íåòó Ñâîáîäíûõ. Does anyone know why it does that? And how do I fix this?
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Inappropriate?Usually that's when the encoding of the character set is from a native language(That is not UTF or ISO) which is not supported by the language setting of your OS(at least no support for that character set has been installed yet).
To fix it more or less you'll have to edit the MP3 tags yourself. If you want you can also install support for extra character sets (but then again these can consume a few gigs of hard disk space).
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Where do I download these character sets? -
Your Mac OS DVD has them. You can go to system prefs > international and select what you want. If it is not installed then you may need to insert the DVD
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Inappropriate?You can check and see if Russian sets are installed on your computer by checking your System Preferences. See here:
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I know where International is located. Yes, I can type in Russian language. Mac OS shows me Russian characters in iTunes and anywhere else. But only when I import songs with Russian words into iTunes then it shows me weird stuff.
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Inappropriate?Well, I get that too, however, only when I am importing MP3s from my windows PC to my mac. It has to do with ID3 tag encoding (sometimes corruption). I have problems when I import Japanese, Korean and Chinese labeled MP3s. If the files comes from another mac then I have no problems.
Sometimes it is fixed by going to iTunes > Advanced and choose "convert ID3 tag". If that doesn't work then as I said before, you'll have to edit the tag one by one.
