CDML Unicode File Renamer was developed to enable American MP3 players to display information from foreign MP3 files. I purchase music from artists from around the world, including Russia and Israel, but my MP3 player only displays ASCII characters. All information in other code pages or Unicode characters was being displayed as upper ASCII characters.

I searched for a program that would let me easily rename these files, but did not find one. This program attempts to use a transliteration algorithm to rename files that use non-ASCII characters into files that use ONLY ASCII characters to represent similar sounds. In creating this program, I tried to anticipate all possible uses that that one might have for this software, but I'll always be happy to hear users' opinions.

System-Wide Features

Supports unlimited number of languages (user updatable)
Transliterates filenames and MP3 ID3 Tags
Allows various renaming operations on multiple files
Allows playing MP3 files
Allows adding and removing leading numbers in filenames
Allows previewing changes
Supports various fonts for displaying filenames
Supports various fonts for displaying ID3 Tags

Fonts Explained

There are multiple character encodings in Windows, which means that character code 200 will not mean the same thing in different fonts. It all depends on what code page is being used and what the author had for breakfast.

•  Info about code pages: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page
•  An example of a Cyrillic font for code pages 1251 and 866 would be "ER Bukinist".
    It can be downloaded here: http://www.nlr.ru:8101/eng/info/fonts.html

Unicode fonts attempt to address this problem by including every major character set within each font. The problem is that most non-computer devices (i.e. MP3 players, DVD players, Media players and etc.) still don't know how to read Unicode data.

• Info about Unicode: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode

So, this brings about transliteration. This is a method of representing sounds from one language using written characters of another language. By writing out foreign (Russian, Hebrew and etc.) words using ASCII characters, I'm able to see what is being played back by my MP3 player.

• Info about transliteration: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transliteration

Download Freeware Version is 1.0
(Released on June 2, 2008)
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