# Garbled tags, might be Japanese encoding?
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/garbled-tags-might-be-japanese-encoding/69004
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [July 1, 2025, 3:32pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/garbled-tags-might-be-japanese-encoding/69004 "2025-07-01T15:32:53Z")
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### Author:  [@middle\_pickup](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/middle_pickup)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2025, 3:32pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/garbled-tags-might-be-japanese-encoding/69004/1 "2025-07-01T15:32:53Z")
I have some .mp3 files from a Japanese CD which have garbled tags. Because of the music's origin I suspect the tags might be using shift JIS encoding. Is there some way to convert these to UTF-8, or whatever it is that mp3tag normally uses?
Thanks.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2025, 3:38pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/garbled-tags-might-be-japanese-encoding/69004/2 "2025-07-01T15:38:08Z")
You can check the Option\>Tags\>mpeg which encoding uses MP3tag to write to MP3 files.
If the tag data is already in a mess due to an external program then I fear that not a lot can be done.
For more detailed help: screenshots help in many cases.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2025, 3:39pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/garbled-tags-might-be-japanese-encoding/69004/3 "2025-07-31T15:39:09Z")
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