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I have a song with a broken artist listing, and I want to identify them [Solved!]

EinEin CaliforniaRegistered User regular
edited November 2009 in Help / Advice Forum
A few years ago, I ripped a song off an internet radio station with some software into .mp3 format. It usually recorded the info of the song being played (title, artist, etc) without a problem. However, I ended up with a couple songs that are just ridiculous, jumbled-up messes.

One song I really like is called 'Frontier', and the artist name is listed as '¾ç¹æ¾ð'. Yes, a bunch of fractions and squiggly letters. It has no lyrics, but I'm under the impression it's from some sort of foreign music group.

I've cut out a short segment of the song for reference purposes that can be heard here:

http://www.fusedcreations.com/adam/sample.mp3

My current suspicion is that the original artist name may have been some variety of kanji, and that the software I was using lost it's mind when it had to record the artist name and put some indecipherable string in it's place.

I'd like to maybe identify the artist, and try and find more by them, but I don't know how. Is there a way of deciphering the weird string into something intelligible?

A few things I've determined within reason:

¾ç¹æ¾ð is not the actual name of the band. The idea was floated that maybe they were just some weird group that actually went by that name, but I don't think so. I have about 25 songs in my music library that share the same syntax problems as this one - for example, "º°À» ¼¼´ø ¾ÆÀÌ´Â" by artist "Á¤¿ø¿µ". If it were a one-off, I might be inclined to believe this is an intentional artist name, but as-is I am highly doubtful.

Searching in google for "¾ç¹æ¾ð" does actually produce some results, including one or two songs that sound similar. For example:

http://www.imeem.com/people/SHKLrEQ/music/HFXnErgA/flowerofk-everationmp3/

Searching for both names (the song I have, and the name of the one above) seems to further the supposition that the artist was originally some sort of kanji:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=tMC&q=%22flower+of+k%22+frontier&aq=f&oq=&aqi=

As evidenced by the type of sites coming up. I think it's Korean.

Any ideas?

Ein on

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  • FyreWulffFyreWulff YouRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited November 2009
    Honestly: have you tried throwing it in as the soundtrack for a simple video with just a black background, and uploading it to YouTube and see if their software finds a match?

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  • EinEin CaliforniaRegistered User regular
    edited November 2009
    As someone who doesn't upload to youtube much, I didn't know they actually did that. I'll try it and see what happens.

    Ein on
  • Gabriel_PittGabriel_Pitt (effective against Russian warships) Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    The characters are Korean. Does anyone know, is it possible if you have Korean character support to turn the garbage squiggles back into actual characters, or are they lost forever?

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  • EinEin CaliforniaRegistered User regular
    edited November 2009
    Okay, I think I have it.

    More google detective work has produced an artist name of "양방언"

    And youtubing that gives me:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_SO6wgwxsk

    The original song!

    So I think I'm good, assuming I can find more now.

    Ein on
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