--- C:/Programme/SqueezeCenter/server/Slim/Plugin/MusicMagic/Plugin.pm.sav	Thu Dec 11 14:38:46 2008
+++ C:/Programme/SqueezeCenter/server/Slim/Plugin/MusicMagic/Plugin.pm	Thu Dec 18 09:13:21 2008
@@ -463,6 +463,22 @@
 
 		@moods = split(/\n/, $response->content);
 
+    if (scalar @moods) {
+      # MIP returns mood names as UTF-8 even on windows, so we need to convert
+      for my $mood (@moods) {
+
+        if ($isWin) {
+
+          $mood = Slim::Utils::Unicode::utf8decode_guess(
+            $mood, Slim::Utils::Unicode::encodingFromString($mood),
+          );
+        }
+
+        # need conversion to the current charset.
+        $mood = Slim::Utils::Unicode::utf8encode_locale($mood);
+      }
+    }
+
 		if ($log->is_debug && scalar @moods) {
 
 			$log->debug("Found moods:");
@@ -775,7 +791,7 @@
 
 	if ($validMixTypes{$for} eq 'song' || $validMixTypes{$for} eq 'album') {
 		# need to decode the file path when a file is used as seed
-		$id = Slim::Utils::Unicode::utf8decode_locale($id);
+		$id = $isWin ? $id : Slim::Utils::Unicode::utf8decode_locale($id);
 	}
 	else {
 		# need to encode the search value (eg. artist) when a database value is used as seed