Here's an oddity that I've been worrying at over the last couple of days - not sure how / whether precisely related to this thread so far, but it involves accented letters....
I had a whole folder of mp3 off-air recordings of the John Le Carré oeuvre, 12 sub-folders in all. But no matter what I did, the main folder <LE CARRE> showed up as containing only one book folder, named <Delicate Balance - Le Carré>, which played fine; but all the others - all named something like <Tinker Tailor - Le Carré> etc - were missing in LMS. I could go direct to the folders on my PC and play them on, say, Winamp - so no problems with the mp3s themselves. Seeing this thread, I just wondered if the accented é in the folder titles was causing some sort of issue - but, then, the <Delicate Balance> stuff played fine. Anyway, I tried deleting the é in <Tinker Tailor - Le Carré> and replacing it thusly <Tinker Tailor - Le Carre>. Ah-ha - the folder now shows up in LMS and plays fine! So, an easy solution. BUT, here's an oddity that someone else will probably immediately identify. When I - in Windows File Explorer - hightlighted <Tinker Tailor - Le Carré>, jumped to the end and backspaced the é, it didn't vanish as I expected, but simply changed to a plain e. No idea how I ever typed the é it in the first place - but it would have been within mp3tag. Strangely, the one folder that was showing up, <Delicate Balance - Le Carré> must have had that é encoded differently, as the backspace deleted the é rather than altering it. So, two different encoding of the é, one of which LMS was fine with, and one of which rendered the folder invisible on a scan. Anyway, I replaced them all with a plain e to totally avoid the issue. I dare say that I will have this problem elsewhere in the entire Music Folder, which I have just not yet noticed. Only thing I can say if that, over the years, I have played all those Le Carré books many times - and never before noticed this problem. However, this is a wholly new installation of LMS and a new physical SDD with the Music Folder on it - so maybe something odd has happened in the transfer process. Sorry for the length of the "issue", but it had me baffled for a few days..... AGB Logitech Media Server Version: 7.9.1 - 1522157629 @ Fri Mar 30 12:17:59 WEDT 2018 Operating system: Windows 10 Music Library: external SD, exFAT (FLAC music; mp3 voice) USA: LinkSys WRT54GS Router, WPA2 1 x Touch, LAN (Firmware:7.7.3-r16676) Controller: 7.7.2-r9663 France: Sagem Livebox 2FR, or Freebox 3 x Touch, 2 wireless, 1 LAN. (Firmware:7.8.0-r16754) Controller: 7.7.1-r9557 3 x SB Radios [2 wireless, 1 usually LAN]: 7.7.3-r16676 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ agbagb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7034 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=112584
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