No useful advice on LaunchBar, I'm afraid (it never worked with Chinese so I never used it), but since its days are numbered...I've been pretty happy with Alfred. (I don't use any of the fancy features; for music I just use fn+media keys on my keyboard.)
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uh, wait, never mind! Sorry -- thought I'd read somewhere that the developers had said they weren't going to update it anymore, but wasn't able to find anything about it just now. Hope I haven't been having dreams about app launchers.
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Maybe you're thinking of QuickSilver, which died, got turned into Open Source, and has kinda slowly lurched on since.
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wait -- have you figured out how to get LaunchBar to work with Chinese? Maybe I was just projecting based on the fact that lack of support for CJK makes it dead to me.
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Ah; I've got a ridiculous number of e-texts with Chinese filenames -- quickly finding those (and occasionally searching within them) is my main use case for Alfred/QuickSilver/etc., so the lack of that was a deal-breaker.
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I mostly just use app launchers as slightly fancier Spotlight replacements that I can occasionally do calculations in; never got that deep into the cult. was a cautionary tale: started with QuickSilver (I think?) and the next thing you know he's living in Emacs.
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Damn Quicksilver was nice, though. I just don't understand why we can't have nice tools like that anymore.