Korean/Japanese Characters in media players

Ok, I've got a question, going to post it here because in the audio help thread, there were no responses.


I recently downloaded an OST from a k-drama. When looking at the file names in windows, they appear as korean characters (as above), but when I play the files in winamp, they show up random symbols. Do I need some sort of plugin for winamp?

More importantly, when I put the songs in iTunes and transferred them to my iPod, they were again, random symbols. iTunes also messed up the album and made each song into it's own album folder, probably because of the this.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

This is somewhere in Winamp's preferences--I can't exactly recall where, but you'll find an option to make the font it uses in the player be a "Bitmap font"--disable that so it uses a regular font.

This should make those characters display properly.

As for iTunes, I get the distinct feeling it just doesn't support them, since I know it's choked on my files every time (they're usually in Japanese). Cless might know more about that.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

what I know Winamp not support Korean/Japanese Characters

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

The reason I switched from Winamp to iTunes was for Asian (an later other Cryllic, etc.) tag support. So, yeah, iTunes will support Asian characters. It depends on the way the files were tagged in the first place, though, because I think iTunes uses Unicode in the tags. Sometimes it'll take retagging to get your files tags right, but they'll work in both iTunes and on your iPod (at least the later ones, as far as I know).

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Yeah, things should work out in iTunes. foobar2000 also supports the displaying of Japanese characters.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Number one benefit of Unicode-capable programs: never worry about encoding problems again.

The world needs to speed up its adoption of Unicode, because it is wonderful in every way.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Winamp 5.25 Beta, build 787 supports unicode in the playlist. Jump to file doesn't yet and I think the media library dosen't either. So, if you're partial to Winamp it's getting there. You can pick it up at this thread* if you want it. Foobar has great support but you'll have to do some reading to get a decent interface.

Good luck and hopefully the future will involve full fledged unicode support everywhere and better metadata.

* Since I haven't posted here since whenever that crash was I am not allowed to post URLs... hah, but it's on their forum.

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