This hint is useful if you want to zip many tracks of music located in your iTunes Library, belonging to different albums by different artists. For instance, you might want to use such a method to create a single backup file. Or for transferring your music to a second computer. I'll assume you have already nicely arranged the songs of interest in a playlist. You can then burn them on a CD, but can you zip them instead? You can, but one annoying problem is those pesky accents, umlauts, and other exotic characters (including the /) that plague titles and artists' names, particularly if you enjoy international music. Fortunately, iTunes uses Unicode characters, and this is one way to deal with them:
Select the playlist and export it from iTunes (on Menu » File » Export). Choose Unicode Text (rather than Plain Text) from the Format pop-up.
Open the playlist in TextEdit, and save it in UTF-8 mode (this is crucial, because iTunes apparently exports it in UTF-16).
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