I transferred korean music from my windows pc to my macbook pro. Not all but most of the korean fonts are all broken up and unreadable. I went to the apple store and they couldn't figure it out. I tried the id3 tags and reverse unicode and the whole 9 yards. I am able to type in korean and all and able to read all korean websites. its just some files in korean fonts that are unreadable. please helppppp!!
MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2010)
This is normally caused by a problem with the encoding of the id3 tags, which need to be in Unicode and not some Windows codepage. I can only suggest that you try again. This app may help:
crystalchung wrote:
most of the korean fonts are all broken up and unreadable.
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I tried the id3 tags and reverse unicode and the whole 9 yards.
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some files in korean fonts that are unreadable.
What's this got to do with music?
all those are music files fonts. so when i put them into itunes, i can't find which song i want to listen to. i first thought it was an itunes issue but something must have gone wrong when i transferred my music files to my mac from windows pc
fane_j wrote:
What's this got to do with music?
He is no doubt referring to what has happened to his songs in iTunes. It is a common problem when transferring from Windows.
wow its $7 for ID3MOD. is there any other way i can attempt to solve this problem before i purchase this app?
I don't know of any other apps currently available for this problem. I think there is a free trial available somewhere.
thank you
Tom Gewecke wrote:
He is no doubt referring to what has happened to his songs in iTunes. It is a common problem when transferring from Windows.
Thank you.
So, what the OP is actually trying to say is that his ID3 tags are mojibake. (Not that his Korean fonts are 'scrambled' or some files are 'unreadable'.)
crystalchung worte:
I tried the id3 tags and reverse unicode and the whole 9 yards.
If the above is correct, what was that about, trying "the id3 tags and reverse unicode and the whole 9 yards"? You haven't even gone 9 inches, let alone 9 yards…
IMHO, the best way to fix this is at the source. On Win, convert the ID3 tags in your Korean music files to ID3 v2.4 and their text encoding from CP 949 (presumably that's what they're in) to Unicode (UTF-8). If your media manager doesn't have this capability, get mp3tag.
Here are some basic instructions
<http://www.nixer.org/encoding-id3-tags-mp3>
(Note that options in the most recent version of mp3tag may be slightly different; also, the author recommends ID3 v2.3/UTF-16. It's up to you; I prefer v2.4/UTF-8.)
If you no longer have access to the PC, you can try to run mp3tag on your Mac in a compatibility layer (Wine), or a VM (eg, Parallels), or under Boot Camp. Look here for a Mac app-plus-integrated compatibility wrapper version of mp3tag.
<http://vortexbox.org/threads/3251-Mac-OS-X-version-of-mp3tag>
I've never used it, so I don't know how well it runs.
Whatever option you choose, try it first on a couple of files and check if fixes the issue before processing all your files. And it's best to work on a copy of your music library, just in case anything goes wrong.
korean fonts on macbook pro scrambled
