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Version: 8.0.2
Beware! this version corrupts accented characters
Feedback Type: Review
Contributed by: eccparis Wednesday, July 30 2008 @ 11:15 AM PDT
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: Less than a month
Recommend Product: NO
If you have tracks with accented characters (such as é, è, ê, ö...) in title & artist names, this version corrupts them when you play the track or get its info!
Please check out this article from Tidbits for a workaround that's good for mp3s only.
Sure hope Apple will come up with a fix real soon for us classical musicians with tons of accented characters in our libraries!
For once I'm not recommending iTunes unless you don't mind correcting the corrupted characters manually...
Comments
Beware! this version corrupts accented characters - Amadoux Dumas
Doesn't corrupt anything here. Accents are OKThursday, July 31 2008 @ 12:26 AM PDT
Beware! this version corrupts accented characters - Jedih
Just convert the songs to ID3 tag version 2.4 and that will take care of it. This can be done by selecting a song and then choose the Advanced menu - Convert ID3 Tags...Thursday, July 31 2008 @ 12:46 AM PDT
Beware! Not really... - Jason Gladstone
Have dozens of song titles and artists with accented names. No problems whatsoever. I would suggest you have a problem with your own system, not with iTunes.Thursday, July 31 2008 @ 01:47 AM PDT
Beware! Not really... - Rick Deckard
The song names don't change until you actually play the song, and it is a widespread problem. I've tested this myself and it does occur.Thursday, July 31 2008 @ 02:46 AM PDT
Beware! this version corrupts accented characters - eccparis
Good news: version 7.7.1 fixes the accent problem! (In 7.7, if you only looked at the track & artist names in the main window without actually playing the track or get its info, the accented letters still appeared correctly. It's when you play it, get its info or even just move it from one playlist to another, that the accented letters get corrupted.) Kudos to Apple for coming up with this fix so quickly!Thursday, July 31 2008 @ 06:17 AM PDT
How widespread is this? - Eric M
Perhaps this is unique to you? Have you tried anything... repairing permissions, perhaps?After reading your comments, I investigated my own library and found that NONE of my artists/songs/albums, etc with accents have been corrupted. In other words, all is well on my system. Any accents pre-7.7 are still there.
Running iTunes 7.7 on G5 iMac/10.4.11.
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