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greenbags125
03-29-2006, 12:52 AM
I use iTunes to listen to all of my music. Since I am chinese, I have a bit of chinese music in my library. I can input chinese and it shows up as the right characters on my mini and 5G. However, I cannot get it to show up on iTunes, all I see are blocks. Is there any way to get iTunes to display the characters like my iPod does? Thanks a lot.
Moxio
03-29-2006, 12:54 AM
Does your PC have the Chinese (Simplified or Traditional) language installed?
SOSTrooper
03-29-2006, 04:57 PM
If you can read my signature, then you have Chinese characters installed. If not, then go to Control Panel > Regional and Language Options > Language tab > check the box that says "Install Files for East Asian Languages." You'll need your Windows CD for this.
greenbags125
03-29-2006, 07:23 PM
If you can read my signature, then you have Chinese characters installed. If not, then go to Control Panel > Regional and Language Options > Language tab > check the box that says "Install Files for East Asian Languages." You'll need your Windows CD for this.

Yup, I can read your sig. However, if Im surfing a chinese website with a chinese character "title"(What it says on the top, to the left of the minimize, restore, and close buttons), it comes up as blocks. However, I can read chinese text fine in IE. It doensn't show up in iTunes though.
62t
03-29-2006, 07:54 PM
i just use winamp + north star and everything works.
maxgle
03-31-2006, 05:20 PM
try different browser, it might work
62t
03-31-2006, 07:52 PM
wait how do you set it to chinese characters with a ipod nano?
SOSTrooper
03-31-2006, 09:25 PM
wait how do you set it to chinese characters with a ipod nano?

Change the language? That's what I did on mine. I think its in the preference menu or close to it.

My iTune can display Chinese characters fine, and so is my Nano. I didn't do anything out of the ordinary, they all just worked as they should. So I dunno what could be wrong w/ the OP's iTune. Perhaps reinstall it?
62t
03-31-2006, 09:53 PM
i change the menu to chinese and the menu is chinese, but the songs are still not showing.
SOSTrooper
04-01-2006, 12:48 AM
Did you guys change the artist/album/song names into Chinese as well? Because those are the ones that show up in iTune and iPod. If you right click on the song and go to Get Info in iTune (or Properties in Windows Explorer), you can edit the info so that they'll show up correctly in any MP3 player and programs.
greenbags125
04-01-2006, 10:03 AM
Yes, I copy and paste in chinese characters i typed using MSPY. That's how it shows up on my iPod.