Chinese song titles

i just switched to Mac and i used to store all my songs in a external hard drive i used on my PC. and the chinese song titles worked just fine on the iTunes on PC but yesterday i pluged my external harddrive into my Mac and imported them into the iTunes library, and some, actually most of the chinese song title turned into codes. I know i can sure fix this but i don't know which setting in international should i change to solve this problem, please help! thank you.
p.s. it'd be great if i don't have to make tranditional chinese my language for my computer, i just want itunes to show chinese song titles. thanks!

The ID3 tags on your songs probably don't have quite the right encoding for the Mac. See this note for some info:
http://homepage.mac.com/thgewecke/mlingos9.html#itunes

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awful.layout.suit.tile,
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awful.layout.suit.tile.bottom,
awful.layout.suit.tile.top,
awful.layout.suit.fair,
awful.layout.suit.fair.horizontal,
awful.layout.suit.spiral,
awful.layout.suit.spiral.dwindle,
awful.layout.suit.max,
awful.layout.suit.max.fullscreen,
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{ "edit config", editor_cmd .. " " .. awesome.conffile },
{ "reboot", "gksudo reboot" },
{ "restart", awesome.restart },
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right_layout:add(mytextclock)
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function ()
if client.focus then
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focus = awful.client.focus.filter,
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buttons = clientbuttons } },
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local helpers = require("vicious.helpers")
-- Mpd: provides Music Player Daemon information
-- vicious.widgets.mpd
local mpd = {}
-- {{{ MPD widget type
local function worker(format, warg)
local mpd_state = {
["{volume}"] = 0,
["{state}"] = "N/A",
["{Artist}"] = "N/A",
["{Title}"] = "N/A",
["{Album}"] = "N/A",
["{Genre}"] = "N/A",
--["{Name}"] = "N/A",
--["{file}"] = "N/A",
-- Fallback to MPD defaults
local pass = warg and (warg.password or warg[1]) or "\"\""
local host = warg and (warg.host or warg[2]) or "127.0.0.1"
local port = warg and (warg.port or warg[3]) or "6600"
-- Construct MPD client options
local mpdh = "telnet://"..host..":"..port
local echo = "echo 'password "..pass.."\nstatus\ncurrentsong\nclose'"
-- Get data from MPD server
local f = io.popen(echo.." | curl --connect-timeout 1 -fsm 3 "..mpdh)
for line in f:lines() do
for k, v in string.gmatch(line, "([%w]+):[%s](.*)$") do
if k == "volume" then mpd_state["{"..k.."}"] = v and tonumber(v)
elseif k == "state" then mpd_state["{"..k.."}"] = helpers.capitalize(v)
elseif k == "Artist" then mpd_state["{"..k.."}"] = helpers.escape(v)
elseif k == "Title" then mpd_state["{"..k.."}"] = helpers.escape(v)
elseif k == "Album" then mpd_state["{"..k.."}"] = helpers.escape(v)
elseif k == "Genre" then mpd_state["{"..k.."}"] = helpers.escape(v)
--elseif k == "Name" then mpd_state["{"..k.."}"] = helpers.escape(v)
--elseif k == "file" then mpd_state["{"..k.."}"] = helpers.escape(v)
end
end
end
f:close()
return mpd_state
end
return setmetatable(mpd, { __call = function(_, ...) return worker(...) end })
I'm using Clementine to play the music if that makes a difference.
Last edited by DisposableHero (2013-11-25 01:12:01)

Hi,
If the songs were purchased from itunes, I suggest that you delete the tracks from your itunes library and move to trash (providing you live in a country that permits redownloading). See http://support.apple.com/kb/PH12283.
Jim

HT1296 I recently purchased songs from my iphone. All good... But I then went to put them on my ipod touch. They seemed to have downloaded but the songs wont play and the song title/the text, appears in a grey colour.

I recently purchased songs from my iphone. All good... But I then went to put them on my ipod touch. They seemed to have downloaded but the songs wont play and the song title/the text, appears in a grey colour and there is a downlaod symbol in front of the song title. what do i do next?? They play on my iphone and from the itunes library but not from my ipod touch.

If the songs are still on your ipod, make sure autosync is disabled in iTunes on your computer, connect and right click on it in the device list, then choose "transfer purchases" to copy all bought media and apps from your ipod to your computer.
If the songs are not on your computer and got deleted from your ipod as well, you can't get them back, unless you have a backup of your iTunes library as part of your computer backup.

My music synced to my iPhone but it won't play! There is a box on the right of the song title that almost looks like a stop symbol. What can I do to fix this?

This has never happened to me before and I have had my iPhone for a couple years now. Just today I bought a couple albums on my mac through iTunes and they downloaded just fine. I have iCloud so they were automatically transferred to my phone. When I go to listen to the songs I found that they won't play. There is a gray box on the far right next to the song title. It won't play and after a little while it just skips to the next song. The weird thing is some songs did download all the way and work just fine. Please help!!!!

I have heard of some people having a similar problem, which was resolved by a simple restart of their iPhone. If that doesn't help you, you may want to consider de-authorizingyour computer in iTunes, then re-authorizing it and performing a sync to your iPhone again.

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