Cyrillic in iTunes

iTunes
converted both the tags and the file names to Greek
gibberish.

Are you sure it's Greek? If not, send a screenshot (click on my name for the address).

You may have some kind of bad font installed that is substituting. An extra copy of Lucida Grande found in Users/username/Library/Fonts should be dumped. Helvetica Fractions and Times Phonetic should also be removed.

I have this problem too.
Some songs shows correctly with russian font (cyrilic), but other russian names shows right this:
Ò›åê 1 1:26 Soundtrack 2 23/1/06 18:45
P.S. My fonts never been reinstaled or deleted.

I have this problem too.
Some songs shows correctly with russian font
(cyrilic), but other russian names shows right this:
Ò›åê

If some show up incorrectly it is most likely because the ID3 tags for those are not encoded correctly.

So why were they correct with the previous version of iTunes and why are they correct with the Windows iTunes? It's a bug.

Are you sure it's Greek?

It sure is not. I also have problems with some Russian MP3 files that I download from CD's and their names show garbage like ăőňħĥ etc. I sometimes receive email messages in this gibberish that I have a hard time to convert into legible Russian - I usually must open them in Safari in order to convert. However, I have found no way to convert song names that come with MP3 files into iTunes. Can anyone help? Not that it is a terrible problem, I have just a handful of tracks that show funny names, but it is a bit nagging that I cannot figure out how to conquer them. Thanks.

It sure is not. I also have problems with some
Russian MP3 files that I download from CD's and their
names show garbage like ăőňħĥ etc. I sometimes
receive email messages in this gibberish that I have
a hard time to convert into legible Russian - I
usually must open them in Safari in order to convert.
However, I have found no way to convert song names
that come with MP3 files into iTunes. Can anyone
help? Not that it is a terrible problem, I have just
a handful of tracks that show funny names, but it is
a bit nagging that I cannot figure out how to conquer
them.

In iTunes the ID3 tags need to be encoded correctly. If nothing else works, you may need to type them in manually.

http://homepage.mac.com/thgewecke/mlingos9.html#itunes

In Mail, you need to go to Message > Text Encoding and try all the Cyrillic options plus UTF-8.

In iTunes the ID3 tags need to be encoded correctly.
If nothing else works, you may need to type them in
manually.

http://homepage.mac.com/thgewecke/mlingos9.html#itunes

Thanks for that, will see if I can do anything as per your advice.

In Mail, you need to go to Message > Text Encoding
and try all the Cyrillic options plus UTF-8.

Have tried all options but attachments in Russian (.txt and .rtf) still need to be tweaked in Safari. No big deal.

In iTunes the ID3 tags need to be encoded

correctly.

If nothing else works, you may need to type them

in

manually.

I had some fun playing with the Reverse Unicode button in iTunes but finally must encode manually. It all boils down to inventing new names for all the songs that I downloaded from an MP3 collection on a CD. Even more fun than I expected!

I had this same problem -- Cyrillic ID3 tags that displayed correctly on iTunes under Windows, but not on the Mac.

The "TagConverter" iTunes AppleScript at http://rumac.blogspot.com/2005/08/itunes.html solved the problem for me -- hopefully you will find it helpful, too.

PowerBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.6)

I don't have that many Russian CDs, but I ended up having them (and a couple Greek CDs as well) display like "ăőňħĥ" as well when track info was grabbed from Gracenote. What I ended up doing was reentering the data using the Character Palette. This can be time intensive if you have a lot. Also, I had the physical CDs so I could copy the data, so this may not be a workable solution for downloaded files for which you don't (or the web site doesn't) have the original artist info and track list. I used the Character Palette because I was not used to the Russian keyboard layout, although in retrospect I probably should have used the Russian keyboard just so I could become more familiar with it (and probably will with a couple remaining CDs I have to fix).