tobal2 wrote: 
> Hi,
> 
> I am running LMS on an RPI4 (Picore 8.0) with the music files stored in
> a Synology NAS. Everything works perfect. 
> Yesterday a notice that some of my playlist shows less song than they
> should an checking the m3u files with notepad I find that the problems
> were made from some special text character like ñ or ó, the text file
> replace these kind with wear strings, manually I change them, but with
> no success after a rescan. 
> The playlist are originally generated with ITunes. 
> Do I have any solution other than replace these special characters in
> the source (ITunes)?


m3u files are ASCII plaintext file, so any non-ASCII characters — eg,
letters with diacritics, like ñ andr ó — get mangled, as you've seen.
This means that LMS can't find the file referred to in the playlist and
so omits it.

There -is- a playlist format that supports letters with diacritics,
using UTF-8 encoding. These playlists use the extension  .m3u8

I'm assuming iTunes could generate m3u8 playlists, since Apple uses
UTF-8/m3u8 playlists for  HTTP Live Streaming (HLS), but I don't use
iTunes.

However, I don't know if LMS supports m3u8 playlist files (either
natively or could  via a plugin), which is obviously the crucial bit
:-)

Hopefully someone else will be along to help more.

Jon



Duet x 3, via various hi-fi. LMS on Raspberry Pi OS (Debian 10) on a
Pi4.
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