{"id":22455,"date":"2004-12-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-03T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/2004\/12\/03\/damn-you-itunes\/"},"modified":"2004-12-03T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-12-03T06:00:00","slug":"damn-you-itunes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/2004\/12\/03\/damn-you-itunes\/","title":{"rendered":"Damn you iTunes!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/blog_images\/20041204_folders.gif\" border=\"1\" width=\"260\" height=\"250\"><\/p>\n<p>So I have been ripping lots of cd&#8217;s to mp3&#8217;s on my computer, and my music collection is at 17GB. I have lots of Japanese cd&#8217;s and WinXP does a great job of handling Japanese filenames and tags. But then I started up iTunes, with the &#8220;rearrange music library&#8221; option turned on, and it royally screwed up my library. Now most of the Japanese songs\/folders are not in Japanese anymore, but have been transformed to &#8220;moji-bake&#8221;, as seen in the screen capture above. Luckily it didn&#8217;t mess with the tags embedded in the files, so if I browse my library with Media Player or iTunes, I can see the Japanese information. But it&#8217;s still kind of lame. I gotta find another program that can fix it. Media Player has the option to rearrange\/rename files based on the tags, but it doesn&#8217;t seem to work. I wonder if there is another utility that can do it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I have been ripping lots of cd&#8217;s to mp3&#8217;s on my computer, and my music collection is at 17GB. I have lots of Japanese cd&#8217;s and WinXP does a great job of handling Japanese filenames and tags. But then I started up iTunes, with the &#8220;rearrange music library&#8221; option turned on, and it royally &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/2004\/12\/03\/damn-you-itunes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Damn you iTunes!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Fk3x-5Qb","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}