عربي في iTunes?

[هارون]

Salam Alaikum:

I have a number of MP3s with Arabic ID3 titles, and when iTunes imports them the titles are not readable. Is there a way to fix this other than just retyping each ID3 tag manually in iTunes?

Haroon

[LinGator]

Most properly the ID tags are encoded in Arabic-Windows and iTune use Unicode for its encoding

I usually recode my files manually...However, is it possible to export your tags to html, change encoding and then save as new html and thenimport into itunes?

[هارون]

Actually I believe the problem has to do with iTunes, not encoding. This is a problem that seems to occur for all languages without a Latin script when they are imported into iTunes (for example Chinese). These ID3 tags are unicode, iTunes just ignores that.

I tried one other thing before giving up. I thought if I switched my regional settings from US to Saudi Arabia, and then made my primary language Arabic that iTunes might import them correctly, but it didn't work. I wonder if iTunes for Windows has this same problem?

[almalaki]

i transfered my list from macintosh to windows
arabic is very okay!

then from the windows to the ipod its ok except that the ipod had blank names for arabic songs

as in no letters or words just a huge blank

[هارون]

I found a way to convert MP3s with Windows-Arabic ID3 tags to Unicode (which iTunes displays properly!) Download Unicode Rewriter, a free program. Once you have it installed, change the source encoding to Cp1256 as in the attached picture and drag all the MP3s you want into the window. The ID3 tags will display properly in iTunes (you may have to reimport them, I'm not sure).

[MiLyAnI]

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