Tagging song titles that use foreign alphabets

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How do or would you tag songs with titles that are written with foreign alphabets?

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Postby 乳头的早餐谷物 » 2009.11.18 (06:31)

Japanese songs, for example. Should I use the original titles with the foreign characters or should I transliterate into the Latin alphabet? On the one hand, the original characters are more accurate, but romanised versions are more usable.

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Postby T3chno » 2009.11.18 (07:00)

Romanised.
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Postby aids » 2009.11.18 (08:20)

Flight wrote:Romanised.
Agreed. The music's all that matters, the title is just a placeholder.
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Postby t̷s͢uk̕a͡t͜ư » 2009.11.18 (19:22)

I'm slightly obsessive-compulsive about my music tags. But one area in which I'm pretty lax is that I don't care about preserving the original formatting of the artist or title if it's inconvenient. If I can tell what it is, then that's all that matters, because I don't really share my music collection.
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Postby Skyling » 2009.11.18 (20:15)

I'd definitely stick with the original, whatever the author put on the CD cover or whatnot. It's more exotic and interesting!
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Postby Borealis » 2009.11.18 (23:03)

I leave it in it's original form. This can present a problem with some languages, particularly in my library Czech and Hungarian. Foobar's scrobbler doesn't like the non-standard diacritics.

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Postby Donfuy » 2009.11.21 (14:05)

Original form.
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Postby a happy song » 2009.11.21 (14:14)

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Postby ChaoStar » 2009.11.25 (14:12)

Original. More than 50% of my library is in Japanese, and I've just learned how to tell which author is which by looking at the hiragana/katanaka/kanjii.
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Postby 乳头的早餐谷物 » 2009.12.27 (14:51)

I came up with a solution a couple of days ago when I remembered foobar2000 is awesome. Some custom fields and playlist tweaking was all it took to get the English transliterations displayed alongside while preserving the original titles (which are also scrobbled as original).

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