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luke255
This is the current state of my iTunes, the menus and preferences are all in english. Just reformatted and reinstalled leopard then iTunes 7.6. I am using the library i previously backed up which was made in 7.6. Help!

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Hara Taiki
1) Can people use .png's for crying out loud? How hard is it to change the format in Photoshop...? I mean really, an extra few seconds...

2) Use a fresh library. Install languages. You know, the basics.
luke255
Oh sorry i didn't convert the TIFF Grab.app made for me to a PNG to better suit your tastes. Also if I was going to pointlessly change the image format i wouldn't have paid $649 for Photoshop when Preview.app or even mspaint.exe can convert it for free. Getting to the actual point of this thread, if that's alright with Mr. Taiki, I would prefer to find out what caused my library to do this for no reason so I can fix it rather than recreating my library and loosing all my ratings, play count, etc. I am still trying my own solutions so I will post it in case anyone else faces this annoying problem. To clarify I speak english and I never use the language (I don't even know what it is) and I havn't eeven installed Language Translations (to speed up install and because I wouldn't use them). As you can see in this picture all the text in the iTunes and equalizer window is in hieroglyphs however you can see that the Get Info window still shows the correct information.

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Note to "Hara Taiki". This is not a PNG for your benefit i just used the screen capture shortcut to capture the whole screen. Also note that despite the fact the PNG only has a slightly larger resolution it is over double the size...
Hara Taiki
Still helps, I hate opening Photoshop to just view a pic when I can just use the browser itself.

It looks like you have it set to Hebrew. Try checking the language settings in iTunes itself.

Also, you can try installing iTunes 7.6 with Pacifist and see if that helps any. I've never had this problem, and it's quite interesting to see.. You can also try asking in the IRC channels.
luke255
Moving my library so iTunes creates another one is not solving the problem.
QUOTE(Hara Taiki @ Feb 7 2008, 06:03 PM) *
Still helps, I hate opening Photoshop to just view a pic when I can just use the browser itself.It looks like you have it set to Hebrew. Try checking the language settings in iTunes itself. Also, you can try installing iTunes 7.6 with Pacifist and see if that helps any. I've never had this problem, and it's quite interesting to see.. You can also try asking in the IRC channels.
Don't know what browser you're using but Safari 3 is loading the TIFF link when I click it...My iTunes doesn't have any language settings. I will try reinstalling with package from apple then pacifist if that dosen't work.
luke255
Still not working. I reinstalled from package, then AppZapped and reinstalled from package, then AppZapped and installed using pacifist and still nothing. If I mess with international settings in System Preferences I can only change the glyhps into other ones. The thing is though those song names should all be in english it doesn't make and sense and i'm losing my patience!
luke255
ok i've determined the problem is something in the "Library" folder in my home folder as all other users of this computer don't have the problem. To check this i manually made a home folder for "Test" which had a copy of my library in it. Obviously I had some keychain problems but itunes on that account loaded with the same glyphs! i spotlighted everything to do with the word iTunes in my library and deleted it but still it defaults to that language i think i'm going to delete my account using another administrator account, keeping my home folder, then re add my account so effectivley i default my settings and keep my files. ANNOYING but hey...
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