Winamp Chinese, Japanese, Korean Characters

[MoodIndigo]

Hey, well my Winamp won't display or play Chinese, Japanese or Korean Characters, I have installed language packs and they still won't work, I wonder if there is a plug in or a patch for this problem.

Any help is appericiated.

Thanks. :happy:

XinanZhang?

[Monkeh]

I've tried several plug-ins, none worked.

The built-in ID3 editor supports East Asian characters, but the actual Winamp interface doesn't.

[NiceCarpet]

Hello Xinan,

Use this Click Me Llama, Microsoft Apploc.

Should get things working right (Y)

[iOsiris]

You will never be able to display all three of those languages at once though even with AppLocale. Because Winamp has announced it will NEVER support UNICODE. This is why I switched to Foobar, which is much better :D

[NiceCarpet]

Thats where your wrong, You can just add the Laguage code at the end of the sortcut e.g. -Number -Number I do it with Winamp.

Foobar may be better but in this case he wants a way for Winamp.

But sure theres allways Foobar

[AionXn_]

Is there a way to make Foobar to display the current song playing on MSN Messenger?

[tvcat]

winamp can display chinese, but not the unicode tag info. if the mp3 without tag info but with chinese file name, winamp will display the file name. correct me if im wrong.

NiceCarpet what do you mean the -Number ?? can explain more ??

[iOsiris]

winamp can display chinese, but not the unicode tag info. if the mp3 without tag info but with chinese file name, winamp will display the file name. correct me if im wrong.

NiceCarpet what do you mean the -Number ?? can explain more ??

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From my experience, Winamp will never ever be able to display Chinese/Japanese/Korean all at the same time. Yes it can display them, one language at a time thru Applocale (switching regional settings) or the language packs. This however, is only like a cheap fix as you still can't do anything (to the tags) if the filename is in unicode, in which case your just SOL. Obviously it plays etc, but you cannot edit the file (tags) until you switch the filename to an ANSI name.

[NiceCarpet]

one language at a time thru Applocale

Not true, thats what I mean by below

NiceCarpet what do you mean the -Number ?? can explain more ??

I'll re-post later on when im on my laptop, this computer dosnt have the lang packs installed so I can't tell you the numbers for it atm.

But what I mean by that is that what Applocale does is when it makes a short cut if you chack the propertys of the sort cut it will have ""bla bla bla" -*Number or some sort*" That number to tell's Applocale to use that language that you picked when setting up the program with Applocale but you can add more codes "-number" to make it add more support so you could add basic support for all 3.

It will show correcty in the play list, but yes your right probley wont work in the tags.

[Favorable7404]

Is there a way to make Foobar to display the current song playing on MSN Messenger?

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Yeah, there's a plugin called foobar toaster or sumthing. I don't have it at hand but you can make a search.

[NiceCarpet]

Ok I am on laptop now,

So when run a program though Applocale and it ask's you if you would like to make a sort cut to that program, Pick Yes.

*It will be in the Microsoft Applocale folder in the start menu*

It should look something like this when you right click on the short cut

then click Propertys, a box will open and in that box there will be a part named "Target" there will be something similer to this: *Of course things will change depending on where you installed it, and where the program is*

"C:\WINDOWS\AppPatch\AppLoc.exe "C:\Program Files\Winamp\winamp.exe" "/L0412""

That part in red is the code for the language *In this case L0412 been Korean* that you wanted Applocale to emulate and such, so you can add more to it to support more lnuage e.g.

"C:\WINDOWS\AppPatch\AppLoc.exe "C:\Program Files\Winamp\winamp.exe" "/L0404" "/L0804" "/L0411""

"/L0412" = Korean

"/L0804" = Chinese

"/L0411" = Japanese

So adding those three extensions will emulate Korean, Chinese, Japanese support for that program in this case Winamp.

Sorry if im unclear or anything, I'm just really bad at explaning things ~_~.

[MoodIndigo]

Ok I am on laptop now,

So when run a program though Applocale and it ask's you if you would like to make a sort cut to that program, Pick Yes.

*It will be in the Microsoft Applocale folder in the start menu*

It should look something like this when you right click on the short cut

then click Propertys, a box will open and in that box there will be a part named "Target" there will be something similer to this: *Of course things will change depending on where you installed it, and where the program is*

"C:\WINDOWS\AppPatch\AppLoc.exe "C:\Program Files\Winamp\winamp.exe" "/L0412""

That part in red is the code for the language *In this case L0412 been Korean* that you wanted Applocale to emulate and such, so you can add more to it to support more lnuage e.g.

"C:\WINDOWS\AppPatch\AppLoc.exe "C:\Program Files\Winamp\winamp.exe" "/L0404" "/L0804" "/L0411""

"/L0412" = Korean

"/L0804" = Chinese

"/L0411" = Japanese

So adding those three extensions will emulate Korean, Chinese, Japanese support for that program in this case Winamp.

Sorry if im unclear or anything, I'm just really bad at explaning things ~_~.

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Thanks NiceCarpet. :)

Llama. :rofl:

XinanZhang?

[sion]

foobar2000 looks complicated... dont know why winamp team dont want to support chinese/japanese/korean....

:cry:

give sonique 2 a try http://sonique.lycos.com/ even though they stop improving it. it still in my opinion better than winamp.

[iOsiris]

dont know why winamp team dont want to support chinese/japanese/korean....

I think it's because then all third party, well all plugins have to be recoded for unicode.

[sion]

my problem with winamp is, winamp wont play mp3 with chinese id tag.

[Jz81]

Just use foobar.

it can support all the languages at the same time,

and it takes lesser resources.

[Lighthalzen]

Just use foobar.

it can support all the languages at the same time,

and it takes lesser resources.

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How do you do that? I installef FooBar Special, and all the language packs, still display gibberish. Please help, thanks! :pinch:

[sion]

just found another player that is better than winamp http://www.quinnware.com/

:alien:

[iOsiris]

How do you do that? I installef FooBar Special, and all the language packs, still display gibberish. Please help, thanks! :pinch:

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It's because your tags aren't in unicode. You'd probably want to do this, make a short cut for the item "[context / playlist] Show File Info (Special)" I use Ctrl+1, now you just press Ctrl+1 on your song, and check the "Override Codepage", find the correct one, then Update the tags and the tags will be rewritten in Unicode (UTF16). There is a way of mass doing this, but I don't know whether your songs are all separated or in you have like albums etc. This is the how to do it per file, you could do it in mass but obviously you don't want to mass override codepages for the tags if they're under different codepages as this will completely *uck your tags.

[Jz81]

How do you do that? I installef FooBar Special, and all the language packs, still display gibberish. Please help, thanks! :pinch:

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U'll need to download this plugin "foo_codepage_action.dll" to do what iOsiris mentioned.

for me, the procedure is easier, i just copy the songs name from Internet Explorer and paste into the tags.

by the way, my windows XP supports asian text.

i'm not sure can it be done the same way in other windows