Language problem...

gtp300hp · #1 (**permalink**) 24th Jan 2007, 6:10 pm

I bought a nameless mp4 player off ebay. Yes it is one of the Hong Kong SCAM players, supposed to be 4gb but only 1. I can live with that now that I got it formatted right. The problem is that when I use the music function, the song title and what not scrolls as random numbers and symbols. I have allready adjusted the language to english and it still does it. Anyone know how to fix this? Thanks in advance

avionik99 · #2 (**permalink**) 24th Jan 2007, 7:22 pm

Try repairing the firmware as explained here

http://www.mympxplayer.org/how-to-ex...tool-vt66.html

Dave

gtp300hp · #3 (**permalink**) 24th Jan 2007, 7:33 pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by avionik99";p=&quot

Try repairing the firmware as explained here

http://www.mympxplayer.org/how-to-ex...tool-vt66.html

Dave

Tried to repair my firmware file and I get an error that says "Unknown firmware file, repairing file failed"...

gtp300hp · #4 (**permalink**) 24th Jan 2007, 9:08 pm

ok, Some of the songs are scrolling fine but others are giving me the number and symbol gibberish....I'm confused...

lattesurf · #5 (**permalink**) 24th Jan 2007, 9:37 pm

gtp300hp , you can't extract your firmware. It only supports upto v9.0.43 currently.

But anyway, check those mp3 files, and ensure that the ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags do not contain those numbers and symbols. If they do, just delete and rename it.

gtp300hp · #6 (**permalink**) 24th Jan 2007, 9:48 pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by lattesurf";p=&quot

gtp300hp , you can't extract your firmware. It only supports upto v9.0.43 currently.

But anyway, check those mp3 files, and ensure that the ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags do not contain those numbers and symbols. If they do, just delete and rename it.

I checked the ID3 tags and they were all as they should be.

deepakrr · #7 (**permalink**) 26th Jan 2007, 2:40 am

the method i use to solve this problem is to remove the id3 tags. just remove them all and load them onto your player, and the songs name will scroll instead of the symbols and stuff.

you can use Audacity to remove the id3 tags
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

petesimon2 · #8 (**permalink**) 4th Feb 2007, 1:58 pm

Hello. I just received a UX-I Platinum Junior player. It's really cute... anyway...
It has this firmware (verbatim):

LKD_9301_01_06A
2006-12-07
9.0.48
2006-09-12

I have similar language problems as other users... but I have a collection of Japanese music stored as WMA files and MP3 files. The files' names have japanese characters, and the files meta-tags also have japanese characters. I know that tags in MP3 files and tags in WMA files are stored differently, with data encoding (such as Unicode .vs. another...).
In Windows XP, my explorer file browser and Windows Media Player 9 will show the characters okay, but the Junior player always shows symbols gibberish. I thought these players were cool enough to show Asian characters like kanji / katakana / hangul whatever.

Can I fix this?
What do you think?

Thanks. Peter.

lattesurf · #9 (**permalink**) 5th Feb 2007, 1:22 am

petesimon2 , unfortunately these players are not clever nor powerful enough to handle additional functions like decoding the text.

petesimon2 · #10 (**permalink**) 5th Feb 2007, 2:23 pm

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Originally Posted by lattesurf";p=&quot

petesimon2 , unfortunately these players are not clever nor powerful enough to handle additional functions like decoding the text.

So, does this mean that only "western ISO" text works in these cheap mp3/mp4 players? any Unicode or UTF?
I'm going to play around with this using microsoft's Global IME to enter some Japanese characters...

arigatou.