# ASF/WMA files and codepage
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/asf-wma-files-and-codepage/2523
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [November 25, 2005, 4:42am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/asf-wma-files-and-codepage/2523 "2005-11-25T04:42:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@dgcom](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dgcom)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2005, 4:42am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/asf-wma-files-and-codepage/2523/1 "2005-11-25T04:42:39Z")
Hi!
I was using mp3tag with great success to edit asf/wma files tags up until I upgraded to the latest version (2.33f).
I tried editing tags in Russian, and now only Artist and Album shows correctly. Other fields are displayed in wrong codepage.
I guess, this is all started after Unicode support was implemented - I was using 2.28c before and it was fine.
I also tried to use "Taglist-file - Tag" conversion and got the same problem plus it writes tag and complains that it can not open file for writing for each file.
If I click yes and refresh view once it is done, I see files tagged correctly... (except codepage problem, of cause).
Any way it can be fixed? I had to roll back to older version...
Thanks,
Dmitry
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2005, 8:47am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/asf-wma-files-and-codepage/2523/2 "2005-11-25T08:47:42Z")
Hello Dmitry!
Can you please try [this unofficial version](http://www.anytag.de/downloads/nonpublic/mp3tagv233f2setup.exe) and see if this solves your problems?
Best regards,
~ Florian
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### Author:  [@dgcom](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dgcom)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2005, 5:11pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/asf-wma-files-and-codepage/2523/3 "2005-11-25T17:11:43Z")
> [@](#):
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> Hello Dmitry!
>
> Can you please try [this unofficial version](http://www.anytag.de/downloads/nonpublic/mp3tagv233f2setup.exe) and see if this solves your problems?
>
> Best regards,
> ~ Florian
>
> \<{POST\_SNAPBACK}\>
Hi!
Florian, thank you very much for your fast reply!
This version fixes codepage problem.
As for "Can not open file for writing" problem - this happens only first time mp3tag tries to write tag to each particular file. That may be something with those files and is not a really big problem...
Thanks,
Dmitry
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2005, 5:25pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/asf-wma-files-and-codepage/2523/4 "2005-11-25T17:25:20Z")
Great! Thanks for your reply.
I plan to release a new official version very soon which will include that fix (along with cover art support for WMA files 😉)
Best regards,
~ Florian
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### Author:  [@dgcom](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dgcom)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2005, 10:01pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/asf-wma-files-and-codepage/2523/5 "2005-11-25T22:01:53Z")
> [@](#):
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> Great! Thanks for your reply.
>
> I plan to release a new official version very soon which will include that fix (along with cover art support for WMA files 😉)
>
> Best regards,
> ~ Florian
>
> \<{POST\_SNAPBACK}\>
Wow! That would be perfect!
BTW... I wanted to ask you how you read/write tags in WMA - are you using your own code or call some MS API?
Thanks,
Dmitry
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2005, 5:57pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/asf-wma-files-and-codepage/2523/6 "2005-11-26T17:57:16Z")
> [@](#):
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> BTW... I wanted to ask you how you read/write tags in WMA - are you using your own code or call some MS API?
I've hacked a C++ class around the Windows Media Format SDK which I'm delay-loading at runtime (if available).
Best regards,
~ Florian
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### Author:  [@dgcom](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dgcom)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2005, 5:06am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/asf-wma-files-and-codepage/2523/7 "2005-11-27T05:06:39Z")
> [@](#):
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> I've hacked a C++ class around the Windows Media Format SDK which I'm delay-loading at runtime (if available).
>
> Best regards,
> ~ Florian
>
> \<{POST\_SNAPBACK}\>
Hi!
Ok, that's what I thought... And if this SDK's API is not available, you can't read/write tags.
Thanks again for this information, good to know.
Dmitry