Hebrew, It works, bitches. Apparently all the rumors were just another case of FUD.
I'm of recent the owner of a brand new Mac mini 2.0 Ghz, but more on that later. The thing is, I've decided to give a chance to the iLife and iTunes other iBuzzword products.
The moment I imported my library to iTunes, I've noticed it cannot read my Hebrew song names from the ID3 tags. I assumed that according to what I've heard before, the Hebrew support on the Mac is not so good, so I left it as it was. Later on, when browsing through the library, I saw some of the names in Hebrew. Hmm. *Ding*.
Apparently, iTunes works great with Unicode, but not with the Windows Hebrew Codepage, also known as CP1255. It even provides a built-in feature to convert from ASCII in the ISO-Latin1 codepage (and only it), to Unicode. After wandering around the Interweb, I found a nice little utility (aptly named "Unicode Rewriter") that does just that - almost automagically. Choose a source codepage, and you're done. In 15 minutes, I converted all of the songs to Unicode with the click of many buttons and a bit of dragging & dropping. It might even work in Windows, I didn't try it.
Now all I'm left with is the endless task of importing and organizing all of my music.
thanks, this is great!
ReplyDeleteI downloaded the utility but haven't been able to run it - does it need to run within another program?
ReplyDeleteIt's written in Java, perhaps you don't have it installed?
ReplyDeleteHI, I have a bunch of songs on an external hard drive that are tagged in Hebrew lettering & I would like to import them to itunes but it cannot read Hebrew. Can some one please help me? I am using a PC & windows XP.
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ReplyDeleteTotach! for the second time this week!
ReplyDeleteAmazing program. Thank u very much. Installed, cose my Music folder and converted almost all of the Hebrew music. thanks again.
ReplyDeleteArie
fantastic. worked for us on our netbook for our hebrew songs in windows xp. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteI also have tons of music in hebrew that itunes doesnt recognize. i downloaded the software (its sitting in my applications folder) but i am still unsure what i need to do now for the hebrew to be recognized.. can you try to explain what I need to do to make it recognize my songs? thanks!
ReplyDeleteDose it work also for Mac computers???
ReplyDeleteHello,
ReplyDeleteI read the reviews posted here and downloaded the app. I ran it using a single song as a trial and couldn't get the program to change one thing in the displaying of the file.
What I did was drag the song file into the program, hit convert and than go back to the folder where the song was saved and added that "converted" file into itunes. I repeated this process with all the different encoding methods listed for Hebrew and none had worked.
Can anybody land a hand here?
I must be missing something dumb.
Thank you
how do you even install the program, there is a bunch of files
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worked great
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