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Why WMA players don't support titles in Unicode?

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I have been looking for a WMA players (both portable and stationary) that are able to display non-English (non-Western European, to be exact) titles. The only portable player that I know of that is able to display Russian is iPod. However, it does not support WMA so my music library is a wild mix of MP3 and WMA files. There are plenty Unicode fonts available so what is so big deal? I was told that upcoming Portable Window Media Center will surely support all languages that Windows CE does, but I honestly don't need video.

So far I ended up assembling my own audio PC based on VIA motherboard with 800MHz chip. I put it in an amplifier case so it does not look like a PC. It has normal rotary volume control. Here is how it looks (display is not shown)

 

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  • Anonymous
    May 16, 2004
    Your pics aren't showing up... they are pointing to your own C drive...

    file:///C:/Photo/Amp/A2s.jpg

  • Anonymous
    May 16, 2004
    Fixed
  • Anonymous
    May 16, 2004
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  • Anonymous
    May 17, 2004
    One of the recent firmware upgrades to the creative nomad jukebox was to add russian characters.

    http://www.nomadworld.com/downloads/firmware/wma-zen_xtra.asp?nProdID=511

    Personally I love this product; I have both the jukebox 3 and the zen xtra.
  • Anonymous
    May 17, 2004
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  • Anonymous
    June 10, 2004
    > One of the recent firmware upgrades to the creative nomad jukebox was to add russian characters.

    Well, it's still not Unicode. It probably supports cyrillic of KOI8-R encoding (or some other). I have the device and have installed that firmware. Still no joy. Nomad explorer won't copy my russian music to the device. I can transfer them with Windows Media Player though. But titles are still shown as a bunch of question marks.

    I'm thinking of writing a small app to transform cyrillic into translit. Shouldn't be too hard...
  • Anonymous
    June 11, 2004
    I guess I'll be sticking to my iPod + iTunes then.