Sonicstage and UNICODE madness

[willykyu]

I'm having the same problem for months with Applocale and sonicstage, which crashes all the time whenever I go to "transfer mode", and importing jap songs is a real mess, for the titles just don't exist when you don't use applocale etc.

I've been looking for a kind of topic where this problem occurs but it seems that it's nowhere to be found.

We've reached the 4.2 version in Sonicstage, and for years the basic UNICODE feature hasn't been available yet. This is nonsense compared to Itunes wich has it (and a lot of other cool features and options...but that's not the subject).

So people found in Microsoft applocale a tempoirary solution to transfer japanese, chinese etc tracks in their walkmans. This is not a real solution, because you're stuck having infos in one other language only (can't have hebrew, arab, chinese, corean and japanese at the same time for example...).

More, CONNECT PLAYER bundled with the A series had unicode. Meaning that every titles imported in CP in japanese or else, just can't be used in SS 4.2. Barvo!

But with applocale I can't even transfer correctly my japanese songs. As I said, Sonic stage crashes everytime I want to transfer my songs to a walkman, or even if I plug a walkman to the computer when I'm under Applocale. No matter what. What 's important to notice is that happens with the French version of SS, and seems to better work with an English version like asia pacific. But I loose the connect store, which I want to use to download my previous free albums and couple others I bought.

Solution 1: use SS asia pacific (it works if I plug the walkman before launching the programs...) and add a Euro connect store module , but I don't know how to do this

Solution 2: find why French SS crashes in transfer mode (or download mode) when Applocale enabled.

Solution 3: go to SS team, and force them with a gun to implement unicode in SS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If somebody could help me it would be great, I had so many problems for months with that, I can't even use normally my walkman more than a week without reinstalling, etc. And I don't have hours to spend on this....

Thanx in advance.

[Ishiyoshi]

Solution 1: use SS asia pacific (it works if I plug the walkman before launching the programs...) and add a Euro connect store module , but I don't know how to do this

If you are interested, I can send over EU's Connect Music Store Module shortly.

[willykyu]

That would be very nice of yours

Thank you very much.

I will inform you if it works then!!!

PS: And is it possible to use 2 different stores then? like Euro AND jap connect store installing two different modules? Maybe could you add these modules in the download section? thanx a lot Ishiyoshi!

Edited December 21, 2006 by willykyu

[pata2001]

I hear you willykyu, and I had enough with this crap. I don't think it's possible to have 2 stores at once, since unlike iTunes, the Connect store is determined (presumably) in the registry. Oh, read my sig.

Luv iTunes!

[Ishiyoshi]

That would be very nice of yours

Thank you very much.

I will inform you if it works then!!!

PS: And is it possible to use 2 different stores then? like Euro AND jap connect store installing two different modules? Maybe could you add these modules in the download section? thanx a lot Ishiyoshi!

The US module has been available within the download section since version 3.3. Anyhow, EU's module is now available for download whenever you are ready. Unfortunately, you can’t maintain two separate regional modules at the same time. Well, I hope "Solution 1" will work for you and please do report back with your results.

[willykyu]

Thank you very much Ishi, it works like a charm.

Now we just have to prey that SS team gives us UNICODE in the next installment of SS once for all.... (and that Connect Store reborns into Itunes like store, with the same interface for every country, and country select........yeah you can live in two different countries and have two bank accounts...).

[wai_lai416]

i'm using the nw-s705f and the only way for mine to display chinese is use the applocale and run the japanese language one ~ and it seems to crash unless i have the device connected before i run it. and in order for me to display chinese on my mp3 player i have to rename each song to chinese after i transfer it to the device unless it already recognize the characters... that pisses me off so bad coz it takes forever and i have done it for 300+ songs so far and it took me 3hrs already! and even then it doesn't recognize all the chinese character because it's not in the japanese language. i used the cp asia pacific version and it'll recognize the chinese character and even transfer it perfectly. but when i look at it on the mp3 player the characters are all messed up.. any suggestion? i bought my nws-705f in canada so i assume it's the canadian version