Windows & Itunes garbling Cyrillic ID3 tags

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  1. Posts : 8
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    Windows & Itunes garbling Cyrillic ID3 tags


    Hi, I was wondering if anyone might know of a way to make windows be able to read non unicode cyrillic letters. I have a bunch of mp3's that I want to put into Itunes but all their info is garbled [Ëţáîâíîĺ íŕńňđîĺíčĺ]. I know that its a Unicode problem because I found a few online converters that correctly change them. They are presently in CP1251 but windows thinks that they are from a different set and so ascribes different letters corresponding to that other set instead of the correct Cyrillic ones (or atleast that is what I've understood from the research I've done).

    However, I still cannot find a solution to this problem. There are a few solutions for Macs such as Cyrfix which work directly with Itunes, but absolutely nothing for windows. It would seem that there would have to be a simple solution out there for such a small problem, but I'll be darned if I can find it.

    The strange thing is that some of the files show up fine with the correct Cyrillic letters in windows explorer but when I transfer them into Itunes they get garbled. So I'm not sure if the problem is solely with windows and Unicode, or if I need two separate solutions for windows and Itunes for them to be able to correctly read the ID3 tags.

    Thanks in advance for your Help!

    P.S. and I'm running Windows 7 HP 64bit and the latest version of Itunes if that makes a difference. And FYI Cyrillic shows up fine in my web browsers and emails and I have the Russian keyboard installed, including several fonts specifically for CP1251.
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  2. Posts : 4,772
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    Hi, Welcome to SF,

    You could try Unicode Rewriter it's platform independent Unicode Rewriter is a Java tool which converts ID3 tags of MP3 files into Unicode. The reconverted MP3 files can be processed by iTunes

    Unicode Rewriter | Get Unicode Rewriter at SourceForge.net

    Hope this helps,
    Captain
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  3. Posts : 8
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    Thread Starter
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    Thanks, I can't get the program to install tho , when I click the install button I get the error message java.io.FileNotFoundException: C:\Program Files\Unicode Rewriter\README.txt (Access Denied). I just can't seem to catch a break! lol
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  4. Posts : 4,772
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    Pugamust said:
    Thanks, I can't get the program to install tho , when I click the install button I get the error message java.io.FileNotFoundException: C:\Program Files\Unicode Rewriter\README.txt (Access Denied). I just can't seem to catch a break! lol
    Try to Right Click and Run as Administrator
    Also Go To C:\Program Files\Unicode Rewriter Take Ownership of the Unicode Rewriter

    Hope this helps,
    Captain
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  5. Posts : 8
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    Thread Starter
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    Capt.Jack Sparrow said:

    Try to Right Click and Run as Administrator
    Also Go To C:\Program Files\Unicode Rewriter Take Ownership of the Unicode Rewriter

    Hope this helps,
    Captain
    It doesn't give me the option the run as administrator only to open, I was able to take ownership but, unfortunately, still nothing
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  6. Posts : 4,772
    Windows 7 Ultimate - 64-bit | Windows 8 Pro - 64-bit
       #6

    That's weird .. I'm assuming that your right clicking on the Setup file
    If that didn't work, Right Click and Go To Properties then goto the Tab "Compatibility" then check on Run as administrator

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  7. Posts : 8
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    Thread Starter
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    Hopefully this work... This is all I get when I go into properties.

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  8. Posts : 4,772
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       #8

    Ok... I guess for jar file it's not letting us to give Full permissions. You could Login to Hidden Administrator and try to install it from there.

    Built-in Administrator Account - Enable or Disable
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  9. Posts : 8
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    Thread Starter
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    !!!!!!It worked!!!!!! Thank you sooooo much! The weird thing is that now its automatically converting them when I put them into Itunes without even having to use the program. IDK, and I'm not even going to ask lol. Thanks again, you have no idea how much of a headache this saves me!
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  10. Posts : 4,772
    Windows 7 Ultimate - 64-bit | Windows 8 Pro - 64-bit
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    Pugamust said:
    !!!!!!It worked!!!!!! Thank you sooooo much! The weird thing is that now its automatically converting them when I put them into Itunes without even having to use the program. IDK, and I'm not even going to ask lol. Thanks again, you have no idea how much of a headache this saves me!
    You are Most Welcome
    Thank You For Posting Back
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