telephonedude98

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Q: My foreign music titles are in alien language

When I import my Korean music onto iTunes, the title is in some alien language.

The quality and everything else is normal but the title/artist/album are weird.

It reads properly on my phone but not on iTunes. Could someone please help?

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mountain Lion

Posted on Feb 3, 2015 7:58 AM

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by Limnos,

Limnos Feb 3, 2015 10:16 AM in response to telephonedude98
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Feb 3, 2015 10:16 AM in response to telephonedude98

For starters the alien language doesn't happen to be Korean which one would expect Korean music to have, does it?

iTunes: Changing the display language - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2242 - "Follow the steps below to change the language displayed in iTunes and also the language displayed in the iTunes store."

Above method did not work but reinstalling iTunes did - https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6798898

I use an old iTunes so things may be different on yours. With mine I can go to Advanced > convert mp3 tags and change the text coding. It is possible something that was labeled in Korean might need a different text encoding set.
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by telephonedude98,

telephonedude98 Feb 5, 2015 9:31 PM in response to Limnos
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Feb 5, 2015 9:31 PM in response to Limnos

Thanks. Unfortunately it does not work. I've tried changing my language to Korean and then restarting iTunes, but it still shows up in an alien language. Do you know any other way to change this?
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by Chris CA,

Chris CA Feb 6, 2015 6:06 AM in response to telephonedude98
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Feb 6, 2015 6:06 AM in response to telephonedude98

Select the songs in iTunes.
Right click > Convert ID3 tags and select v2.3.
As Limnos suggested, is this "alien" language Korean?
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by telephonedude98,

telephonedude98 Feb 17, 2015 7:41 AM in response to Chris CA
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Feb 17, 2015 7:41 AM in response to Chris CA

I see that option but it doesn't work. I press OK after chooseing v2.3 but then when I right click and Convert ID3 tags again, it goes back to "none", as if I had never clicked v2.3.
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by Limnos,

Limnos Feb 17, 2015 8:09 AM in response to telephonedude98
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Feb 17, 2015 8:09 AM in response to telephonedude98

You only need do it once. I believe it defaults back to "none" each time you open that window but they have already been set to 2.3.

Have you tried re-installing iTunes?
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