Windows Media Player language

victor2

My (Windows 7) Windows Media Player (12) language for music titles appears to have switched to some oriental looking language today. As shown below:


Any ideas what has happened? I've tried change the default languages to English and have disabled/re-enabled Media Player in the Windows features. Have of course rebooted and that didn't work!
It's not just one CD, it's all that I try, and they look fine on an XP box.
The filenames when a CD is ripped are also the same as shown, which is a tad annoying. :mad:

fwor

It's more likely to be a font/character set issue than a language one.

Have you tried going to the Fonts section in Control Panel and clicking on "Restore default font settings"?

victor2

fwor wrote: »

It's more likely to be a font/character set issue than a language one.

Have you tried going to the Fonts section in Control Panel and clicking on "Restore default font settings"?

Thanks, but no luck. Can't help thinking it's something fairly simple, just can't figure out what!

victor2

More findings...
Just tried the same CD (a very old one) in a separate Vista box running Media Player 11 and got the same language!
Could it be a Microsoft "glitch"?

ch-ch-changes

Hi - I did a bit of googling and from what I found it may be that your WMP is updating new CD info in a different language from the main database/music data provider

see here: Microsoft Answers

and here: tom's hardware

victor2

ch-ch-changes wrote: »

Hi - I did a bit of googling and from what I found it may be that your WMP is updating new CD info in a different language from the main database/music data provider

see here: Microsoft Answers

and here: tom's hardware

Thanks. The tom's hardware link allowed me to straighten out the CD's I had messed up. From that link....

I think it's Korean and they appear to have flooded WMP's music data provider recently (Peter Gabriel's Shaking
the Tree has 38 identical entries... seems highly spammy to me). I get a bunch
of squares in WMP's rip mode when I go to rip a CD (which is WMP trying to
interpet oriental characters) and it seems to be happening on almost every
CD.

You can convert to English by locating the album at Microsoft's metaservices (in WMP, right click on
the album cover and select 'Find album info') then when it finds the Korean
version, overwrite the album title's oriental characters with the English album
title - hopefully you'll then get your album in English so click 'next' to
accept the track listing then hit 'finish' - it should then update your track
titles in English (it did for me anyway).