iTunes corrupts ID3v2 tags in mp3
First - I couldn't find any form for a bug report on this site, so I'm using this forum. If it is wrong please feel free to redirect me to correct place.
Well, the story is the following: I've tried to add a directory with it's subdirectories containing mp3's to playlist, but iTunes found only 30% of all files! Okay, I have the winamp's .m3u list of the same directory and iTunes can import it(at least there's such menu item). After I've opened m3u in iTunes it showed all the songs with national(Russian) letters in their name as <-)-< e.g. it doesn't understand this characters(winamp's m3u list is stored in plaintext, not in the unicode). After I've tried to play some of these mp3's their names displayed right. Great, I've started to play all these mp3's with "bad" names to correct them. I've uploaded them to iPod and was happy. Till I've launched winamp again. It showed all the songs names as giberish! And notice, only song names, artist name and album remained the same. I've found that iTunes replaced all the names in ID3v2 tags with their unicode variant! Why??? I really don't understand this. And I didn't found any checkbox like "don't corrupt my id3 tags".
What I need now is to return my tags to their previos state. I think that iTunes developers should 1)fix this bug 2)write an utility to restore the tags (it is their fault that the tags were corrupted).
Thanks for reading.
Waiting for response from developers.
--ss
Well, the story is the following: I've tried to add a directory with it's subdirectories containing mp3's to playlist, but iTunes found only 30% of all files! Okay, I have the winamp's .m3u list of the same directory and iTunes can import it(at least there's such menu item). After I've opened m3u in iTunes it showed all the songs with national(Russian) letters in their name as <-)-< e.g. it doesn't understand this characters(winamp's m3u list is stored in plaintext, not in the unicode). After I've tried to play some of these mp3's their names displayed right. Great, I've started to play all these mp3's with "bad" names to correct them. I've uploaded them to iPod and was happy. Till I've launched winamp again. It showed all the songs names as giberish! And notice, only song names, artist name and album remained the same. I've found that iTunes replaced all the names in ID3v2 tags with their unicode variant! Why??? I really don't understand this. And I didn't found any checkbox like "don't corrupt my id3 tags".
What I need now is to return my tags to their previos state. I think that iTunes developers should 1)fix this bug 2)write an utility to restore the tags (it is their fault that the tags were corrupted).
Thanks for reading.
Waiting for response from developers.
--ss
