Was investigating this as well, it appears that this is a valid bug as Banshee becomes incapable of properly handling media with fully non- ASCII artist names or album names.
An upstream bug report with patch is available at https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=520516 ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #520516 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=520516 ** Changed in: banshee (Ubuntu) Status: Invalid => Confirmed ** Also affects: banshee via https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=520516 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- banshee failed to import non-ascii character in mp3 id3tag https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/364562 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
