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More => Old Versions => JRiver Media Center 18 for Windows => Topic started by: ray77 on December 29, 2012, 12:09:38 am

Title: Import feature
Post by: ray77 on December 29, 2012, 12:09:38 am

Installed MC 18 on a new computer; uploaded music files from old computer (running MC 17) to network drive via Ethernet cable to internet router box and then used MC 18 auto-import feature to populate MC18 Audio Artist and Album Views from network drive music file.  Some album/artist entries are now in Chinese (or Japanese) characters. Original info was in English. Language selection for MC 18 (and MC 17) is English. Why is this happening? Can I fix without manually changing tag information fields (especially tedious to retype track titles).

Title: Re: Import feature
Post by: marko on December 29, 2012, 01:57:14 am

Morning Raymondsoo,

If you're using wav files, it's a known and acknowledged problem (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=76722.msg520111#msg520111) in the current build that will be swiftly fixed once the holidays are over.

Are you using wav files?

-marko

Title: Re: Import feature
Post by: ray77 on December 31, 2012, 02:14:56 pm

Yes they are all wav files, so looking forward to fix. I was helping a friend get up and running with MC 18 and noticed that the default encoder is still Monkey.ape.  I didn't notice this when I was ripping CDs in MC 17 and had to re-rip to uncompressed wav - a real pain. Any reason JRiver decided to use this particular encoder as the default?

Title: Re: Import feature
Post by: Matt on December 31, 2012, 02:22:20 pm

Quote from: raymondsoo on December 31, 2012, 02:14:56 pm

I didn't notice this when I was ripping CDs in MC 17 and had to re-rip to uncompressed wav - a real pain.

You might read this:
http://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Lossless_Compression

Title: Re: Import feature
Post by: JimH on December 31, 2012, 02:36:59 pm

Quote from: raymondsoo on December 31, 2012, 02:14:56 pm

I was helping a friend get up and running with MC 18 and noticed that the default encoder is still Monkey.ape.  I didn't notice this when I was ripping CDs in MC 17 and had to re-rip to uncompressed wav - a real pain. Any reason JRiver decided to use this particular encoder as the default?

Because nothing else will give you higher quality audio.

Title: Re: Import feature
Post by: ray77 on January 11, 2013, 06:06:13 pm

So with improved tagging of APE or FLAC, will Chinese characters showing up in the JRIver Album, Artist and especially the File views go away? I find that the other problem that I reported under MC 17 is still with me in MC18 (i.e. some ripped music files show up within JRiver and then disappear from Album and Artist views).