I have bunch of Japanese songs. These have ID3tags that are in Japanese. In addition, file names for these files are also in Japanese.
I loaded these songs to the player, but no matter what I do, I am not able to get Fuze to display ID3tags in Japanese correctly. I get either Unknown, bunch of ???, or complete geblish (depending on what version of ID3tag I use).
Strangely, when there is no ID3tag on a file or ID3tags are Unknown (not read correctly), and when the file name is in Japanese, this file name is displayed correctly in Japanese.
I am using utf-8 encoding.
In addition, all songs display ID3tag info correctly on my PC.
Also, ID3tag info on same files displayed correctly on older Sandisk MP3 player (m240).
What am I doing wrong? Or is this a bug in firmware?
i had the same problem with my files that uses non-alphabet characters. the way i was able to fix this is to re-download the ID3 tags using services like gracenote or freedb. if u use Winamp, highlight on the file and right-click, select “auto-tag” on the menu that comes up. it will try to match the file characteristic with what’s on the database. if u allow it to, it will re-tag the file with the new info. u just got to be careful because there are misses! give it a try on one or two of your japanese file first and see how it works out. i have been having good luck with thai, japanese and chinese mp3 files so far.
I don’t know anything about foreign-language characters in tags, but the preferred format for ID3 tags on Sansa players is ID3v2.3 ISO-8859-1, not UTF-8. Try changing your tags to ISO and see if that helps.
I don’t think ISO-8859-1 can display Japanese characters, unfortunately…
@gwk1967 wrote:
I don’t know anything about foreign-language characters in tags, but the preferred format for ID3 tags on Sansa players is ID3v2.3 ISO-8859-1, not UTF-8. Try changing your tags to ISO and see if that helps.
i had the same problem with my files that uses non-alphabet characters. the way i was able to fix this is to re-download the ID3 tags using services like gracenote or freedb. if u use Winamp, highlight on the file and right-click, select “auto-tag” on the menu that comes up. it will try to match the file characteristic with what’s on the database. if u allow it to, it will re-tag the file with the new info. u just got to be careful because there are misses! give it a try on one or two of your japanese file first and see how it works out. i have been having good luck with thai, japanese and chinese mp3 files so far.
Thanks for info. Maybe I’ll need to play around with auto tagging route.
But it would be nice to find a way to get it fixed when customizing tags.
Is there any way to find out how Winamp tags the songs and mimic it manually?
