Corrupt ID Tags

[Mysticphaze69]

I have a weird problem...when i change just one thing in the ID TAG they become corrupt like showing YcP YbP characters. The only way to fix it is to convert the song over again. Any suggestions????

[Mysticphaze69]

Re: Corrupt ID Tags

O and i'm using MP3 ID3V2

[LtData]

Re: Corrupt ID Tags

What version? 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, or 2.4? Do you know?

[Spoon-]

Re: Corrupt ID Tags

In dBpoweramp configuration you need to switch on the Unicode for mp3 tag handling (just a guess).

[Mysticphaze69]

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Well i went into DB configurations there's like 4 options to change where do i enable unicode handling. And i have no clue wut version of ID tag i'm using i kno i used V2

[LtData]

Re: Corrupt ID Tags

Under "MP3 ID Tag Handling" the two options we want you to look at are: ID3v2 Version and ID3v2 Text Encoding. Tell us what the version number is set to and make sure the Text Encoding is set to Unicode-16.

[Mysticphaze69]

Re: Corrupt ID Tags

Under "MP3 ID Tag Handling" the two options we want you to look at are: ID3v2 Version and ID3v2 Text Encoding. Tell us what the version number is set to and make sure the Text Encoding is set to Unicode-16.

I have version 10. I go to the configuartions and their is like 4 options to check or uncheck.

[Spoon-]

Re: Corrupt ID Tags

v10 is very old and not unicode aware or compatible.

[Mysticphaze69]

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So basically there's nothing i can do? but juss reconvert everything that i change?

[LtData]

Re: Corrupt ID Tags

You will probably need to upgrade to dMC r12, but your tags may actually be corrupt.

[Mysticphaze69]

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Ok so i upgraded....same difference lol i wasted 31 dollars

[Mysticphaze69]

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O and i selected unicode 16 and now it doesn't matter if i reencode it displays nothing but those stupid characters

[LtData]

Re: Corrupt ID Tags

You will probably need to type in the correct tags and then they should be kept. The wrong tags aren't fixed as they are corrupted, so they need to be replaced.

[Spoon-]

Re: Corrupt ID Tags

If you mp3 id3v2 tags were not unicode and they were saved in the local code page of your machine (for example if you machine was set to Korean), then is wrong and not allowed in id3v2, hence only the computer which created the tags could see them correctly.

[Mysticphaze69]

Re: Corrupt ID Tags

Yea i gave up on it...i tried every different setting i'm just going to reencode all my music all over again. Can it handle 3000 songs in one single encode or should i do like a 100 at time?