# Song titles with special characters change when importing to Itunes
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/song-titles-with-special-characters-change-when-importing-to-itunes/53939
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [August 2, 2021, 4:59am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/song-titles-with-special-characters-change-when-importing-to-itunes/53939 "2021-08-02T04:59:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@agustin440](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/agustin440)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2021, 4:59am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/song-titles-with-special-characters-change-when-importing-to-itunes/53939/1 "2021-08-02T04:59:22Z")
I have songs in other languages that I am trying to import into itunes (or other apps), but special accents or letters not found in English are substituted for strange characters.
the mp3tag program shows When I look at properties using mp3tag, the file name shows correct, but the TAG title shows the strange characters, How to I change 10,000 songs, so that the file name is the tag title, The folder name is correct but the album name also shows bad characters, Need to make the path / album name to show as the album name on the tag. please help thx
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2021, 5:07am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/song-titles-with-special-characters-change-when-importing-to-itunes/53939/2 "2021-08-02T05:07:13Z")
could you check the character encoding and make sure that you write tags with UTF character encoding (and not ISO)?
See Mp3tag settings in File\>Options\>Tags\>Mpeg.
If the data show correctly in MP3tag, you have to rewrite the tags with the new character encoding. Press ctrl-S for that.
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### Author:  [@agustin440](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/agustin440)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2021, 5:54am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/song-titles-with-special-characters-change-when-importing-to-itunes/53939/3 "2021-08-02T05:54:17Z")
Thank you for writing, The songs were ripped with a bluos vault 2i CD ripper. The tag is ID3v2.3 UTF-16 I tried to change them to -8 and to ISO, but the name of the song and album name are still gibberish It looks like what I need to do is convert the file name into the song title. (and do something similar with the album name), BUt I am unfamiliar with this TAG editor, the people at BLUOS NAD/ Vault told me to use it, but then not how.
thanks.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2021, 6:07am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/song-titles-with-special-characters-change-when-importing-to-itunes/53939/4 "2021-08-02T06:07:32Z")
> [@agustin440](#):
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> The tag is ID3v2.3 UTF-16
Is this the setting that you have or is this the actual character encoding?
You can [add a column](https://docs.mp3tag.de/customization/file-list) that shows the character encoding. Set as value %\_id3v2\_character\_encoding% (and leave field emtpy).
Also, you could use [MP3diags to convert the tags](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-check-files-for-errors/44633), assuming you local codepage.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:29pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/song-titles-with-special-characters-change-when-importing-to-itunes/53939/5 "2026-02-09T12:29:21Z")