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Have a little Thai with your iTunes by Tan Vachiramon

When I first downloaded iTunes, I was slightly disappointed that it didn't support Thai ID3 Tags, while my Soundjam Free does (I've got the Thai Enabler in my System. Interestingly, the built-in player in MacOS X supports Thai tags without mods). So I decided to hack a little...

Before...

I opened a copy of iTunes in ResEdit and found the FOND resource. I then copied a Thai font from the System's Font folder and opened it in ResEdit, opened the FOND and changed the resource name to Lucida Grande. I copied that resource and pasted it into the iTunes' FOND resource (deleting the old Lucida Grande first) and saved that changes, and it worked! I guess this should work with all fonts.

One problem though, the letters of the ID3 tags are messed up, so an ASCII to Latin tag conversion did the job (I get some mp3s from Wintel computers).

After...

Well, that's it! Just thought it might be useful for people with unsupported foreign languages on their systems.