Hmmm, I did not noticed, until I saw this thread, that this accented
character issue with MusicIP was back. I guess it came back with 7.5 as
it was working fine for me with previous releases of SBS. My library has
tons of World music and I have used accented characters in the tags,
path, and
SqueezeCenter can create mixes with accented characters in the filename,
however it won't play them since it can't find them because of the wrong
character encoding (the error will show up in the log). Do yours
actually play?
This character encoding has been an issue with many versions of
treble;547148 Wrote:
SqueezeCenter can create mixes with accented characters in the filename,
however it won't play them since it can't find them because of the wrong
character encoding (the error will show up in the log). Do yours
actually play?
This character encoding has been an issue
Unfortunately the Perl script didn't work with my cygwin installation on
Windows XP. It could find the accented characters but didn't replace
them with their 'equal' part, like é to e.
So I converted my characters in filenames and folders from UTF to ASCII
with MP3Tag using the 'action'
Thanks for the MP3Tag tips. That's a neat trick. I also found a little
Perl script to get rid of all those pesky characters posted by tom
permutt four years ago:
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22069
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treble
Thanks for the link. I knew this was a perfect job for Perl, but beyond
my very limited skills in that department.
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Thanks for your reply. I guess I have to give up hope that this will
ever be fixed.
So I give in... Does any one have a script to covert
accented/international characters in filenames to normal ones? I am on
Windows XP but have cygwin installed so have access to perl, etc...
Thanks,
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MusicIP has worked like this for a long time - yes it's a pain and now
that development of MIP has stopped, unlikely to change.
Pretty sure that EasyTag has an option to replace characters which you
can use to replace the accented chars. Only semi automatic as you
still need to tell it which
treble;542308 Wrote:
So I give in... Does any one have a script to covert
accented/international characters in filenames to normal ones? I am on
Windows XP but have cygwin installed so have access to perl, etc...
A script would be the good way to do it, but I've done this using
mp3tag's
You certainly are not the only person seeing this. One way around it is
to rename all the affected files to remove the accented characters not
forgetting upside down question marks. You can leave the tags alone so
track names are still displayed correctly. It is a pain to do but it
works!
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I am still having problems with MusicIP mixes and songs with
accented/international characters in the filename. I can create a mix
fine with a song with an é or other characters, but the songs with
international characters don't show up in the playlist, incl. the seed
song if it has some.
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