iTunes 7.7 bug - renames tags

Same problem, but I have a temporary fix. You can open up the music files in TextEdit and change the strange characters back (é often got changed to È on my tracks). Save them and then next time you play them in iTunes, it reads the data correctly.

It seems iTunes isn't writing to ID3 tags, just reading them. Please fix it, Apple!

It was many versions ago that iTunes started to behave strange in an "international" setting. It no longer uses the timeformat and sorting order specified in the System Preferences. It has its own way of doing these things. Maybe this bug could have been avoided if iTunes used the standard routines to handle text.

Converting to v2.4 works but there are still problems:
1. Even though iTunes 7.7 requires v2.4 mp3s, IT DOES NOT IMPORT AT v2.4!
It only imports mp3s at v2.2!!! And there is no preference setting to import at v2.4. So you have to select all the mp3s you want to convert and then pull down the menu to choose v2.4.
2. Now many mp3s, even when converted, will not accept graphic Cover Art files. This is usually the case when you select a file, Get Info, and the Encoded with: field reads "Unknown." So for files that have lost their pictures, or for newly loaded mp3s that are not v2.4 AND of known Encoding method, you have to select the mp3 tracks, select Advanced > Convert selection to mp3 [at the bitrate you selected in preferences...bloating smaller files] and THEN discard the ones you copied from, select the newly "Imported" copies and [BECAUSE iTUNES 7.7 DOES NOT ALLOW IMPORTING AT v2.4] you have to convert the selections to v2.4. Be careful not to drag-and-drop on the drop-down's Import option or you'll waste a lot of time waiting for an extra set of dupes to throw away.
3. NOW you can drag the image files in, and correct the accented text THAT iTUNES 7.7 RUINED [provided you know the language well enough to know what the violated character was] and you'll be back where you were on July 9th 2008. Congratulations.

hi~!

well, i'm sorry to tell you that i'm almost 100% sure that it will stay as it is...
because i have iTunes since it was launched some years ago...
and i remember my Korean songs were most of them changed to unrecognisable tag names....
since all the korean mp3's were made by a Windows PC....

i remember that a 'few' number of mp3's kept the korean caracters well, but aside from them, i had to re-type the korean names of songs.... but when i saw it was too much work, i just left them as they were messed up: ¶°“ª≤߸¸ Çß“ª¿ä

Same problem here:
- Mac Mini with Intel Core Duo 1,66MHz
- iTunes 7.7
- Italian Language

It's very annoying because I used to spend a lot of time to have my library so perfect. Hope that Apple will soon release a fix for this bug.

For those that don't know about it, send Apple feedback. Go to the iTunes menu and click on "Provide iTunes feedback". Fill out the form and make sure you select "Bug" from the feedback type menu.

Yeah, iTunes alters my tags as well. It changes my genre to "[Rock] Kraut-Rock"

this bug is indeed as bad as all the stuff that emerged from my once beloved apple company. has anybody ever tried to use the "provide feedback" feature? when clicking on this option i'm not forwarded to a feedback site on itunes, but to a website where i could request music to be incorporated into the music store catalogue!!!!
same policy in everywhere. they just don't care.

since apple does not care about complaints (the first reason might be that it is so ****** difficult to find a way to complain) i wanted to post a link that might help with renaming the damaged files, though it won't do any miracles.
the application tune instructor (their website doesn't seem to be available in english yet, though they provide a english localization) provides the possibility of bulk-renaming your tags. thus, you could tell the application to exchange any weird letter with the correct one within the tags of the selected tracks in itunes, either in the title, the album, the artist, and so on.

i've just found the actual feedback website, which is http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html

Same problem here. My macs are having the same problem, under 10.4.11 and 7.7. Was beginning to go crazy until I found this post, and now can only wait, can´t believe still no word from apple on their support site. Have sent feedback. Maybe anything with foreign characters is not big an issue for them...

To temporarily solve the bug and continue to use iTunes untill an official fix will be released, I suggest you to follow the istructions given previously in this thread to convert the ID3 tags of ALL your library to version 2.4.

I've done so with my >11K tracks library, it took about 3 hours, but now the problem is no more. Note that I lost 8 of 200 cover arts, but I had a full backup of the library and so I easily re-added them.

10.5.4
iTunes 7.7

Same problem - ü no go.

Updated to 7.7 yesterday, and just now found out about this problem.
Half a month since the release and still no patched iTunes. 😟

A possible way to help find corrupted tags:

cd ~/Music/iTunes/

egrep -rHiI --color "‰|ƒ|·|¡|‚|¬|Â|≈|‡|Ê|È|…|Í|Ë|Ô|Ì|ˆ|÷|Û|Ù|¯|ÿ|¸¸|‹|˙|Á|Ò|fl|°|∞|Æ" "iTunes Music Library.xml" > ~/Desktop/bad_id3.txt

Good luck. This bug is hardcore !