I use MediaMonkey to mange my music collection, which includes classical music whose tags include extended Unicode characters, as in "Dvořák."
MediaMonkey has a feature which lets you specify how to transcode Unicode characters (or any character, really) to a standard basic ASCII character for the track's file name, as well as any directories that dig down to the file name. This allows you to maintain the Unicode characters in your tracks' tags, but then use basic ASCII characters for the file namme. .m3u playlist files can only contain basic ASCII characters. When MediaMonkey creates playlists (and then exports them to devices), it uses the ASCII transcoding you specify in the mediamonkey.ini file to do the transcoding. (See the [FilenameMapping] section of the mediamonkey.ini file.) The only unsatisfying thing about this is that the playlist itself won't display the Unicode characters, but it does let you keep the Unicode characters in your library's tags. For playlists stored as an .m3u file, I don't think there is much of an alternative, because they can't handle characters other than basic ASCII. There is a unicode-8 playlist format that does handle Unicode characters. I don't know how to generate one of those, or if MediaMonkey can do so, or if my Squeezebox Touch would play them from its connected hard drive. -- trinkner ------------------------------------------------------------------------ trinkner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=40974 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86355
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