Help playing Hebrew music CDs

Perhaps go to system > administration > language support and install
Hebrew.

On Mon, 2011-03-14 at 05:18 +0100, name at domain wrote:
> I'm having trouble playing Hebrew music CDs. When I use Exaile the names of
> the songs appear as Gibbberish. I have Hebrew fonts installed (culmus and
> culmus-fancy) and can view websites in Hebrew fine. Is there any way to fix
> this?

I assume the problem is related to the specific encoding your CDs use. The thing could be, the text there is encoded with some bullshit format instead of UTF-8.

Once upon a time people used different encodings for different languages and there were even different encodings inside one specific language. Russian letters for example can be done in KOI-8R, Windows-xxxx, IBM-xxx, ISO-xxxx, etc. Then UTF-8 came along and it alone included almost all languages known to man. Then UTF-16 came and it included ALL languages known to man. GNU/Linux uses UTF-8 per default because it is the best combination of usability and size. However, not everyone is aware of UTF-8 being the best option and still uses old encodings, which equals problems. If the CDs are old enough, that would explain the usage of old stupid encodings too.

The best solution is to rip the CDs to the harddrive and tag them right with exfalso (or any other program that edits tags). Then you can play them back having correct text displayed.