Rio Audio Forge manual Tags, UTF-8, Shift-JIS

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Tags

Adjust Tags menu settings if the Rio Forge displays random alphabet characters instead of the correct ID3 Tags. The Rio Forge supports Latin- and Japanese-based languages. If ID3 tags are displayed properly then Tags menu settings do not need to be changed.

Rio Music Manager encodes tracks tags using the Unicode method. Properly tagged (Unicode) tracks are unaf- fected by changes to the Tags menu settings. All WMA tracks are Unicode.

1Press MENU.

2Select Settings.

3Select Tags.

4Select ASCII (the default setting), UTF-8, or Shift-JIS.

5Press CENTER to apply settings and return to Player mode.

Tags settings include:

•ASCII

Select to read ID3 tags that are encoded using the ASCII Latin alphabet. ASCII is an acronym for American Standard Code for Information Interchange.

•UTF-8

Select to read ID3 tags that are encoded using the UTF-8/Unicode format. UTF-8 is backwards compatible with ASCII. UTF is an acronym for Unicode Transformation Format

•Shift-JIS

Select to read ID3 tags that are encoded using the Shift-JIS format. Shift-JIS is a character encoding format created by Microsoft that is based on the Japanese Industrial Standard format.

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