I have many files that I ripped from Classical music compilations that were apparently manufactured in Asia. When played in a music app, the album art does not load properly and the song title is wrong. The display shows asian language characters. However if I go to Mp3tag, there are no asian langu…

[image] rod2: The display shows asian language characters. That often happens when a non-unicode application tries to display unicode information. It is possible that Mp3tag is displaying tags that are unicode but you are using a non-unicode music app. Which players have you tried? If thes…

I use an android music app called Neutron.

I downloaded another mp3 tag editor out of curiousity, tagscan, and it did not show any asian language characters either. I found some advice on how to set the options in mp3tag to show the extended tags but even with that, no asian characters. But when I play it thru Neutron, there they are. I can …

[image] rod2: I use an android music app called Neutron. I have no experience with Neutron. I suggest trying another player. (eg. Winamp or Foobar2000 or VLC)

I cannot find another android player that will display custom album art that fills the entire screen on a tablet. If I could, I'd switch. Ill have to put up with the ocassional tag weirdness I guess. Thanks for trying to help.

You could try to load one of the files into MP3tag, set File>Options>Tags>Mpeg>Write: ISO8859 close the options dialogue Press Ctrl-S to save tags Load the file into your player and see if you can read the characters now. What was the result to remove APE tags? What do you mean by [image] …

tried that - no effect. What happens is that when I open the mp3file in mp3tag, there are no chinese characters anywhere to be seen in the file. Its all english, in any kind of view, no matter what tags are removed or displayed. I can open the same file in Windows Explorer and click details, and s…

what you see is that a utf-16 character consists of 16 bits whereas others use only 8 bits to encode a character. So if the player does not understand to read utf-16 characters, it show these strange characters. What you can do is to check the files with mp3diags as this utility detects strange ch…

i downloaded mp3diags and ran it on a couple of cloned files. Nothing in the"tag info" suggested any issues with non-english character display. Specifically, what sort of error would those be called in mp3diag, or, what sort of thing would I be looking for?

[image] rod2: Specifically, what sort of error would those be called in mp3dia I think the error is "df". In general anything that looks like "usupported" or "invalid" should be of concern.

Chinese characters show in player but not mp3tag

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ohrenkino December 7, 2019, 6:21pm 16

See File>Options>Tags>Mpeg
You probably save the tags now as ID3v2 UTF-16
There select the option with ISO-8859-1