Chinese Characters?

[soundscience]

One of my music server customers living in Hong Kong is using DB Power amp to rip her music.
Her Chinese Music Rips and the Chinese Characters show up while ripping and then vanish and are converted to question marks.

What must be done for her to be able to keep the characters.

I have an identical music server in Tokyo and that customer can rip Chinese music and his doesn't lose the Chinese characters when the rip is finished.

Both are using DBPoweramp?

[Spoon]

Re: Chinese Characters?

Possibly the player is not unicode compatible? or they are ripping to a format which has no unicode tag support.

[soundscience]

Re: Chinese Characters?

Hi Spoon,

I'm not sure what that means but I will have my customer try ripping to flac to see what happens.
Thank you.

[soundscience]

Re: Chinese Characters?

Spoon, I am assuming perhaps incorrectly that you are part of DB Poweramp?

I looked up Unicode and this may not be my issue as when DB Power amp rips the CD the Chinese characters convert to question marks after it is ripped??????

Neal

[Spoon]

Re: Chinese Characters?

FLAC is unicode, after the track is ripped, right click on one in Windows File Explorer >> Edit ID Tags

are the correct tags shown? if they are then they are stored correctly in the file.

[soundscience]

Re: Chinese Characters?

HI Spoon,

If Flac solves the problem with the Chinese characters will I be able to use DBPoweramp to convert to wav and keep the Characters?

[Spoon]

Re: Chinese Characters?

WAVE cannot hold unicode characters if the player cannot read the 2nd id tag (the id3v2 tag), if it reads the WAVE list tag, then it is non unicode.