Chinese language display problem in music metadata

[Ivan2233 0]

I have just installed Emby for streaming music files from my PC as a DNLA server.  It functions really well except for one problem that I cannot resolve, to do with metadata of the music files.

I have both English and Chinese songs from my library.  When I linked up Emby to the song files.  The metadata population for the English songs works well.  The metadata population for the Chinese songs is a problem.  The original local data were replaced by weird characters such as these è­è© éºç¶å¸éæ².    Anyone has experience of solving this? 

Obviously the Chinese metadata is available from the internet and downloaded but not read correctly.  On the other hand, the original Chinese characters of the local music file were displayed correctly, except that it is replaced by problematic metadata from internet.

 

[Luke 42083]

Hi there, can you please go over an example and show a screenshot? Thanks.

[Ivan2233 0]

Like this.  These are random characters instead of Chinese

[Ivan2233 0]

These are some files with local file metadata somehow remained intact.

[Luke 42083]

Can you supply one of those tracks for testing? thanks.

[Ivan2233 0]

01 欺我庄.mp3

Edited September 13, 2020 by Ivan2233

[Luke 42083]

Ok thanks. Please see my explanation here:

 

[Luke 42083]

And just to confirm, windows explorer doesn't seem to understand it either:

 

[Ivan2233 0]

I understand what you say.   And my understanding is set of Chinese metadata is downloaded through internet when I load the song (I compare different songs, some show local distorted metadata, some show good downloaded metadata, some show "new" metadata (which I interpret to come from automatic refresh) which are distorted (as example)).   So it seems even relatively new album do not provide Chinese in coding commonly acceptable to common music apps.

The other perspective, is whether I could solve this better by redoing ripping of CD.  

I find that when I rip my album, the metadata encoding is different if I do FLAC vs. MP3.  Most of songs are on MP3 and the Chinese encoding are random characters.  But for a few songs I did with FLAC, the Chinese came out perfect (for same CD).  Do you have any suggestions on if I want to do rip MP3, is there a way I can make the Chinese encoding to follow, e.g. FLAC, and display the Chinese correctly by perhaps choosing the UTF-8 encoding.

[Luke 42083]

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Do you have any suggestions on if I want to do rip MP3, is there a way I can make the Chinese encoding to follow, e.g. FLAC, and display the Chinese correctly by perhaps choosing the UTF-8 encoding.

@ginjaninja do you have any tips on that?

[ginjaninja 605]

17 hours ago, Luke said:

@ginjaninja do you have any tips on that?

dont have any personal experience on this, but it seems mp3tag has a 'convert codepage' function that may help.