i have some news. made some tests with one album which contains Special Characters. 1. iTunes Library via Samba -> Album not found 2. "local Library" directly in file System -> works! 3. "local Library" via Samba -> works! Scanner gives some weird output at least at (3): /mnt/nas/test/Chilltronica - A Definition N° 1/01 Grotesquely Beautiful.mp3 Well here’s the problem: LMS is reading the XML file. You might have written the music files on a Mac over NFS to a Linux box, which then exposed those files over Samba to Windows, which wrote the filenames it was seeing in a file, which then is parsed on the Linux box again. That latter then takes the file paths stored in the XML file, which are invalid in the Linux server’s context, and tries to match them to its own local paths, which could be in yet another encoding. Which means: there are many ways to make this configuration break.
So it's at least an iTunes Plugin Problem. if the library would work locally, i did not test. How does the Plugin work? Parse by FileSystem or locate Music Files by the iTunes XML? The plugin is reading the file paths from the XML file, to then read the metadata from the actual music files.
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