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Topic: Unicode / Locale aware CD Ripper? (Read 3806 times) previous topic - next topic
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Unicode / Locale aware CD Ripper?

Does anyone know of a CD Ripper in Windows that understands Unicode?  It appears the main accurate rippers all fail absolutely miserably in this aspect - EAC, CDex, and that accuraterip.com thing.  Currently i'm ripping using iTunes on an iBook, ftping over to my PC and converting the tags from ID3v2.  It seems that a fair percentage of FreeDB entries are locale based, and therefore ideally the ripper needs to offer the user a choice of locale.  But whatever the locale it should write the tags & file names in UTF8.

fyi:  I'm running XP in Japanese locale, and have a random collection of K-Pop, J-Pop, American, Italian, Irish, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Welsh, Chinese, and British music.  That includes Latin, Extended Latin, Kana, Kanji, and Hangul characters.

I'm posting here because I found foobar2000 as about the only fully unicode aware player on a PC, so someone might have a ripper too 

Unicode / Locale aware CD Ripper?

Reply #1 –
I have been using CDex for the fast few years under both Windows 2000 and XP, and it worked fine for me when ripping Korean CD's with Korean values in ID3v1 & v2 tags. I did this for mp3s as well as oggs, and I not really sure what problem you're talking about. As for FreeDB entries, I have never used it on getting track info on Korean CD's, if that is what you're referring to.

Since switching to EAC, I have not tried ripping Korean or any other songs with unicode track info.

Hope this helps.

Unicode / Locale aware CD Ripper?

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Please use the foobar forum for foobar related subjects only.

Unicode / Locale aware CD Ripper?

Reply #3 –
I know nothing about text stored on CDs but I guess you most often want to take tagging info from some online DB like freedb. I do know however that freedb doesn't support unicode in any way. All info in that database should be in ISO-8859-1 (latin-1) charset. But many programs don't care about this and submit text to the db without any conversion. So as it is now, there is an absolute mess of different languages in freedb and you just have to be lucky sometimes to find the info coded in your own charset.

This is supposedly fixed with the new cddb2 / gracenote. So maybe you could try using a ripper which can fetch tagging info from there...
 

Unicode / Locale aware CD Ripper?

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Please use the foobar forum for foobar related subjects only.

Hrm... I believe this topic deals much more with rippers than with Foobar.

As I see it, he only mentioned Foobar as a program " fully unicode aware", and he wants a Ripper that behaves likewise.

Unicode / Locale aware CD Ripper?

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Hrm... I believe this topic deals much more with rippers than with Foobar.

As I see it, he only mentioned Foobar as a program " fully unicode aware", and he wants a Ripper that behaves likewise.

So what's wrong with moving it here then?

Unicode / Locale aware CD Ripper?

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So what's wrong with moving it here then?

Argh. These mods should make themselves clear.

I thought Jan was scowling him(her?) because he was posting foobar subject on cd-software forum.