Am I the only one that gets the weird characters on 1/3 of their songs?

-Steven

On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 7:34 AM, Steven **<[email protected]> wrote:
> I just noticed something odd.  I had a symlink to one of my songs that
> shows up as funky characters.  When accessed through the symlink, it
> doesn't have the funky characters.  Obviously the tags are the same,
> since it's just a symlink.  Must be something in the file name?  I
> noticed the symlinked file shows up in the list as the name of the
> symlink (not the name of the artist or song from the tags).
>
> Here is a small sampling of my paths:
> ===Funky characters displayed===
> /home/root/Music/311/Uplifter/01 - Hey You.mp3
> /home/root/Music/Halestorm/Halestorm/02 - I Get Off.mp3
>
> ===Normal characters displayed===
> /home/root/Music/Another Animal/Another Animal/03 - Broken Again.mp3
> /home/root/Music/Halestorm/Halestorm/get_off.mp3 -> 02 - I Get Off.mp3
>
>
> Hope this help.  Thanks.
> -Steven
>
> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 7:08 AM, Steven **<[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 9:05 PM, c_c<[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Steven **-4 wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>These versions (0.61 and the latest binary) still show all the funky
>>>>>characters on some songs though.
>>>>
>>>  Can you check the tags of these songs? What type are they - ogg / mp3?
>>
>> They are mp3's.  The tags look fine.  One that has funky characters
>> actually has a 'ï' character in the path to the file and the artist
>> field.  But the others are just normal alphanumerics.
>> Mplayer parses the tags just fine.  How else should I check them?
>> They showed up fine in Amarok before I moved them to the Neo.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Steven
>>
>
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