Titling Your MiniDiscs In Japanese/Chinese

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Titling Your Minidiscs In Japanese/Chinese

Need to title your ATRAC/ATRAC3/ATRAC3plus files in Japanese/Chinese using non-Japanese SonicStage CP 4.0? Please follow the registry edit detailed below and run SonicStage CP 4.0 with Microsoft AppLocale Utility.

**Need Microsoft AppLocale Utility? click here. Need instruction with Microsoft AppLocale? Read further below.

Kanji and kana characters will show as it should if you apply the following edit properly.

1. Using regedit (Within WinXP, Start --> Run --> input "regedit"), go to

   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Sony Corporation\OpenMG\PD\{D887F25F-02A3-44D7-841F-583DD5231B5F}

2. Then locate the entry called "AreaCode" with a value of 2 for US version.
3. Change it to 40000 hexadecimal. That's the value on the Japanese install of SonicStage.

Note:

(*If you wish to title and display music tracks in Traditional/Simplified Chinese, change it to 800000 hexadecimal. That's the value on the Traditional/Simplified Chinese install of SonicStage. Note: this is for SonicStage use only, hardware display may need additional "Service Mode - Destination Code" modification. Please check your unit's service manual for further instructions.)

(*If you wish to title and display music tracks in Hangul, change it to 20000000 hexadecimal. That's the value on the Korean install of SonicStage. Note: this is for SonicStage use only, hardware display may need additional "Service Mode - Destination Code" modification. Please check your unit's service manual for further instructions.)

FOR NETMD/Legacy SP USERS

The above steps will not completely enable multibyte titling (especially if you want to title Album titles with Chinese characters) for NetMD format. The registry edit used prior to SonicStage 3.0 is required. Apply the edit accordingly:

1. Using regedit, go to --> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Sony Corporation\OpenMG\PD\{F7D5CB7D-61E5-4258-AD3B-726DBAB5162C}
2. locate "UTOC4" and change its value to 3
3. go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Sony Corporation\SonicStage\PD
4. locate "ShowTitleHalf" and change its value to 1

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Running SonicStage 4.0 CP with Microsoft AppLocale

1) Launch Microsoft AppLocale

2) Locate the Application - for your case: SonicStage CP 4.0

3) Detect the Language; select the desired language of target application

4) Launch the target application; create a shortcut to always run this application with AppLocale.

*how to add support for new languages with WinXP?

To install East Asian language files on your computer

1. Open Regional and Language Options in Control Panel.

2. On the Languages tab, under Supplemental language support, select the Install files for East Asian languages check box.

3. Click OK or Apply.

You will prompted to insert the Windows CD-ROM or point to a network location where the files are located.

4. After the files are installed, you must restart your computer.

Notes

• To open Regional and Language Options, click Start, click Control Panel, click Date, Time, Language, and Regional Options, and then click Regional and Language Options.

• You must be logged on as an administrator or a member of the Administrators group in order to complete this procedure. If your computer is connected to a network, network policy settings might also prevent you from completing this procedure.

• The East Asian languages include Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. The files for most other languages are installed on your computer automatically by Windows.

• It is recommended that you install these files only if you are going to be entering or receiving text in one or more of these languages. The Chinese, Japanese, and Korean files require about 230 megabytes (MB) of space on your hard disk. In addition to the language files, Input Method Editors (IMEs) are installed for each of the three languages.

• After you install the East Asian language files on your computer's hard disk, you must add the individual languages for which you want to enter and display text. After you add a language, the language is loaded into memory every time you start your computer.

• To remove the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean files from your computer, clear the check box, and then click OK or Apply.

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