Suddenly problems with music tracks that contain special characters

Barghest · 2011-02-12 16:49:16

Hi,

unfortunately I don't know which update broke the playback of the tracks from the album Ænima.

Now, only mplayer is able to play it. Neither VLC nor Amarok is able to play it anymore.

I already used Amarok's built in tool to rename files but with no success. I also adjusted the tags in Amarok. I renamed the in Dolphin.

The files itself are stored on an ext4 partition and worked fine for the last months.

So any idea who to blame (read: file a bug report) or any other idea?

wudu · 2011-02-12 17:00:15

Hi,
Tool is awesome.

Here it works with VLC, no amarok to test.
Perhaps a locale thing?
I use german utf8.

2handband · 2011-02-12 17:04:35

The recent builds of Amarok have had this issue and are getting worse with each release. I've switched to Clementine.

Barghest · 2011-02-12 17:09:48

Clementine is the only app that shows an error message and it seems that the Æ isn't recognized although it is shown correctly in amarok or EasyTag that I've just installed.

\edit: Everything is set to utf-8 in easytag and I'v rewritten the tags and file names but with no success. Renaming them in Dolphin "Ae" works for Clementine (not for Amarok or VLC) but I want the Æ back

Last edited by Barghest (2011-02-12 17:28:49)

Barghest · 2011-02-12 17:33:01

wudu wrote:

Hi,
Tool is awesome.
Here it works with VLC, no amarok to test.
Perhaps a locale thing?
I use german utf8.

Me, too:

$ locale
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

And yes...the're awesome...I've seen them live twice

Barghest · 2011-02-13 13:33:05

Ok, the problem is phonon-vlc. That's why vlc isn't able to play the files, too.

With phonon-gstreamer everything in amarok works fine (although the lenght of the tracks isn't recognized, but that's not that bad ;b )

Last edited by Barghest (2011-02-13 13:34:35)

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#1 2011-02-12 16:49:16

Suddenly problems with music tracks that contain special characters

#2 2011-02-12 17:00:15

Re: Suddenly problems with music tracks that contain special characters

#3 2011-02-12 17:04:35

Re: Suddenly problems with music tracks that contain special characters

#4 2011-02-12 17:09:48

Re: Suddenly problems with music tracks that contain special characters

#5 2011-02-12 17:33:01

Re: Suddenly problems with music tracks that contain special characters

#6 2011-02-13 13:33:05

Re: Suddenly problems with music tracks that contain special characters

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