# Album names showing up in Chinese or? **URL:** \ **Category:** Support\ **Created:** [December 27, 2021, 12:04am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/album-names-showing-up-in-chinese-or/55624 "2021-12-27T00:04:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mahimike](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mahimike](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/mahimike)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2021, 12:04am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/album-names-showing-up-in-chinese-or/55624/1 "2021-12-27T00:04:01Z")
I have been updating my database for the last year. (thank you Florian). Today, I noticed I had a lot of previously updated records that had several fields blank in MP3TAG but the album titles were in a script that looked Chinese to me, but what do I know. (Album name = ÿ䛾愀爀 䄀挀爀漀猀猀 吀栀攀 匀攀愀). In windows explorer the only problem field is the album name also in the above script. MP3TAG the filename is correct, however the title, artist ,album artist, track, year, Genre are blank, file data is populated. Media Monkey displays the data correctly. I have about 600 tracks with this anomaly. Thoughts anyone? ---
**Author:** ![poster](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/poster/32/4881_2.png) [@poster](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/poster)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2021, 6:22am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/album-names-showing-up-in-chinese-or/55624/2 "2021-12-27T06:22:00Z")
Please test whether the files are corrupted: > [@How to check files for errors?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-check-files-for-errors/44633): > > It’s required and often helps to reduce support cycles to check files for errors before filing a bug report. Symptoms of erroneous files are often missing or wrong bitrate or length audible blips or skips tags seem to be sticky and cannot be removed There are some really good tools to check the files for errors, namely MP3 Diags — identifies many different issues in MP3 files Website: [http://mp3diags.sourceforge.net](http://mp3diags.sourceforge.net) Download: [MP3 Diags - Getting MP3 Diags](http://mp3diags.sourceforge.net/010_getting_the_program.html#binWindows) If the font size in MP3 Diags is … Please also check whether you have APE tags in the files. Since Mp3Tag prioritizes Ape tags when reading, these can cover Id3v2 tags. ---
**Author:** ![ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ohrenkino/32/4843_2.png) [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2021, 7:46am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/album-names-showing-up-in-chinese-or/55624/3 "2021-12-27T07:46:57Z")
I would like to add that this looks like a character encoding problem. Apparently the tags are not encoded with UTF but ISO. Unless the original codepage could be reproduced there is little chance to get the tag data back. ---
**Author:** ![mahimike](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mahimike](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/mahimike)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2021, 2:43pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/album-names-showing-up-in-chinese-or/55624/4 "2021-12-27T14:43:27Z")
OK- so now I have a lot of research into specifics of the MP3 details of which I previously knew very little. It is all good and thanks for pointing me to these areas. I am posting this to acknowledge the suggestions and to say that it will take me a little time to learn the new terms and tools. - Thank you and see you later.... ---
**Author:** ![system](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/c/ce7035d426cb755a7916793326d23b465222a407.png) [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2026, 12:29pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/album-names-showing-up-in-chinese-or/55624/5 "2026-02-09T12:29:35Z")