Unicode in CD Ripper?

[MarkSealey]

A lot of the titles of the ten CDs in this set contain umlauts (and other diacritics) etc.

So get M? Dchen instead of [B]M

[MarkSealey]

My post was cut off and should read:

So get M? Dchen instead of M + a-umlaut + dchen.

Does dBpoweramp CD Ripper support diacritics and Unicode; if so, how do I enable it?

Thanks in advance… !

[BrodyBoy]

I always fix that stuff in "post," i.e., post-rip metadata editing. Unless you're lucky enough that the online metadata is correct and properly formatted for those tracks, I know of no other option than to fix it manually.

For anyone (in the English-speaking world) who rips a lot of classical music, it's worth considering how you want to approach this. Original-language accuracy will require considerable, often tedious editing. A couple alternatives include adopting a consistent use of Anglicized substitutions (eg., schloss vs. [I]Schlo

[MarkSealey]

BrodyBoy

Thanks very much for your quick and helpful reply!

I always fix that stuff in "post," i.e., post-rip metadata editing

That’s what I have just spent many hours doing :-)

In a way it gets quite enjoyable after a while, doesn't it.

But - should I assume that dBpoweramp doesn't support Unicode, and so it can't cope with umlauts, accents and so on?

For anyone (in the English-speaking world) who rips a lot of classical music

…

That's me :-)

Thanks for the notion of anglicization. I could do that. But, also being a lover of languages, I would like to keep the diacritics, if possible.

BTW I note that your Eszett (I think it must be:

[I]Schlo

) also seems to have cut off the rest of your post - as my a-umlaut did. Not too crucial, but is this a forum setting that could also be fixed, do you think?

Thanks again!

[Dat Ei]

The forum software doesn't like german umlauts, but dBpa does.

Dat Ei

[MarkSealey]

Dat Ei,

…but dBpa does…

But CD Ripper mangles all of those in the tracks I referred to in my OP: I get, for example,

F? R

(a space and a capital "R") for the German word for "for", namely "F + u-umlaut + r"

Any way round this, please?

[Spoon]

dBpoweramp supports it, the online database might not have it in the unicode format.

Try a manual search of discogs.

[MarkSealey]

Thanks, Spoon: are you suggesting that I first examine what dBpoweramp makes of the CD(s) using AccurateRip Meta (my default); then - if that hasn't handled the diacritics correctly - switch to Sonata or Freedb - as here: