Media playing software for non-English music?

[doanster]

I happen to listen to a lot of music from around the world (mainly Asian), and I find that Windows Media Player and iTunes does a terrible job with tags and file names not in English. Any suggestions for good alternatives? (I use Windows, Mac OSX, and Android)

 

[octoberasian]

For Windows, I recommend Foobar 2000: http://www.foobar2000.org/

I haven't had any issues with Japanese text unlike iTunes which is hit-or-miss at times when I try to edit ID3 tags for Japanese music.

For OSX, my friend uses this: http://mplayerx.org/

Others you can try for OSX: (Going through Google.)

Nightingale - http://getnightingale.com/all-versions.php
Sonora - http://getsonora.com/
Cog - http://cogx.org/features.php
Tomahawk - http://www.tomahawk-player.org/
Musique - http://flavio.tordini.org/musique​

Android... ugh, I'm not too familiar with Android players, but here's a few I've found:

DoubleTwist - http://www.doubletwist.com/mobile/
Winamp (surprisingly) - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nullsoft.winamp​

And, for all three, there is VLC.

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html#download

I haven't used this as a media player and playing back videos has been very iffy in iOS and Windows. Music playback is not an issue but I have not tried editing song tags for it.​

 

[Megalith]

MusicBee FTW.

 

[Hero1711]

JetAudio.

 

[sharknice]

Winamp on windows and Android can handle them no problem.

 

[drdeutsch]

MusicBee FTW.

Yes. Great program! Musicbee is awesome and FREE!