How do I preserve Asian characters in ID3 tags?

[TempestGarden]

Hello.

When I am ripping some of my Japanese Cds and encoding them I notice that dBpowerAMP is recognizing the Asian characters initially, but when I load up my resulting encodes into iTunes I am having a problem. Instead of displaying the characters properly, it displays "???" where the Asian characters should be. When I hover over the individual song files, I see the same thing. So, the program is recognizing them, but for some reason it is not encoding them properly as ID3 tags in the final result.

Any idea what I can do to change this?

Thanks.

[Spoon]

Re: How do I preserve Asian characters in ID3 tags?

dBpoweramp Configuration >> Codecs >> Advanced and set the ID3v2 option to Unicode.

[LtData]

Re: How do I preserve Asian characters in ID3 tags?

Also, make sure you are using dMC r12.

[TempestGarden]

Re: How do I preserve Asian characters in ID3 tags?

Thanks so much to both of you and yes I am using version 12.3 of the program.

[yathome]

Re: How do I preserve Asian characters in ID3 tags?

dBpoweramp Configuration >> Codecs >> Advanced and set the ID3v2 option to Unicode.

hi, i'm trying out dBpoweramp and i have the same asian characters issues. i changed the settings to above but it still comes out as ??? in almost all other players i tried (WMP, MusicBee etc). is there a way around this? i have quite a large number of Chinese and Japanese CDs. thanks

[Spoon]

Re: How do I preserve Asian characters in ID3 tags?

What format are your audio files? mp3?