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iTunes 7.7 bug - renames tags

Every song I play that has a non-standard English character is getting renamed as soon as it starts playing.
An example:
Artist: Sigur Rós - *Song Title:* Ágætis Byrun

will be retagged as

Artist: Sigur RÛs - *Song Title:* ¡gÊtis Byrjun

There are a lot of songs in my library that will be afflicted by this problem if this problem continues. I've done a re-install of 7.7 but the problem is still there.

iMac 2.16GHZ C2D, Mac OS X (10.4.11)

Posted on Jul 10, 2008 9:20 PM

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Jul 11, 2008 6:42 AM in response to jens-erich

HI,

Exactly the same problem occurs with itunes 7.7 on both powerbook on 10.3 and mac mini on 10.4. Don't know if it appears on 10.5.
As far as I'm concerned, I've detected it when reading french and brazilian songs
which often used characters with accentuation. Seems to be a i18n bug.
The strange thing is that it appends only when reading. Didn't check if it change the id3 tags of the files also or if it is only the XML file which is modified.

Jul 11, 2008 10:40 AM in response to blakeables

Hi,

I've reinstalled my previous iTunes (good thing I usually download the standalone installer and keep that around...).

First run: "This version of the iTunes library was created by a newer version" -> quit.

Lucky guess: ~user/Music/iTunes/ -> voila! There is a folder "Previous iTunes Libraries", and in there was the (automatically created by iTunes) backup. Copied this over to /iTunes, renamed it (it had the current year/month/date added), and I'm back up and running with the right Umlauts under iTunes 7.6.2

Apple, QA much...?

Jul 11, 2008 7:48 PM in response to blakeables

Same here, all non-conventional characters are changed for good, but only my Intel Mac, not in my iBook, both with 10.4.11. Not to mention that iTunes freezes for 3 minutes when my iPod Touch is connected via USB (also only in iMac Intel). iTunes in that machine is in effect unusable.

Apple is getting just as reliable as Microsoft when it comes to releasing bug-ridden software. It's not the first buggy iTunes release in the recent past either. Or maybe 50% success is what they are aiming at now and I didn't read the press release.

Jul 12, 2008 2:34 AM in response to iTunes Mike

I'm getting the same problem, with the same setup as one of the guys above: Mac OS 10.4.11 on an Intel Macbook Pro, with English as the preferred language. I renamed all of the files (which took a while) and that seems to have stopped the renaming bug for now.

Interestingly, the problem didn't seem to occur with Russian or Greek characters.

Message was edited by: BealeOfSteel

Jul 12, 2008 3:23 AM in response to blakeables

I also have this REALLY annoying bug. At the moment I have 10.000 songs in my library and don't want to rename them all. Until Apple fixes this problem, I will have to use my CDs again...

OS is 10.4.11 (German) on a Mac Mini (Intel 1.66), ITunes is 7.7 (43)

I didn't expect that something like that would happen on a Mac!

Message was edited by: danielberlin

iTunes 7.7 bug - renames tags

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