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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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Romanised.

Flight wrote:Romanised.

Agreed. The music's all that matters, the title is just a placeholder.

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.

I'd definitely stick with the original, whatever the author put on the CD cover or whatnot. It's more exotic and interesting!

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.

Original form.

Original, but then I'm a Last Fm addict.

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.

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).