Bug 10204 – SC Cannot Display Chinese characters of WAV files on XP

Bug 10204 - SC Cannot Display Chinese characters of WAV files on XP

Summary:

SC Cannot Display Chinese characters of WAV files on XP

Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX

Product:	Logitech Media Server
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Display
Version:	7.2.1
Platform:	PC Windows XP

Importance:	-- normal (vote)
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	Unassigned bug - please assign me!

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Reported:	2008-12-02 17:09 UTC by Walker LaRon
Modified:	2008-12-15 09:23 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Chinese Wav (14.39 MB, audio/wav) 2008-12-02 17:09 UTC, Walker LaRon	Details
Chinese WMA (5.75 MB, audio/x-ms-wma) 2008-12-02 17:10 UTC, Walker LaRon	Details
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Description Walker LaRon 2008-12-02 17:09:52 UTC

Created attachment 4373 [details]
Chinese Wav

Ticket Reference 081111-003002
Windows XP
SC 7.2.1
Symptom:

With wma lossless, Squeezecenter can display Chinese in the main panel - all info including song titles appears correctly.

If the same albums are ripped into wav files, Squeezecenter cannot display Chinese, although English can still be displayed. A lot of ?'s appear instead of Chinese (song titles, etc). 

Customer is using Windows Media Player 11 to rip files

In both Windows explorer and Windows media player, there is no problem displaying Chinese.  

Troubleshooting:

Had customer perform clean install of SC 7.2.1
Had customer send me both version of the files (wma and wav)

Tested them on MAC:(SC 7.2.1)
They both work fine

Tested on Windows XP SC 7.2.1
WMA displays fine
WAV file does not

Had another technician test the files, with the same results

Comment 1 Walker LaRon 2008-12-02 17:10:38 UTC

Created attachment 4374 [details]
Chinese WMA

Comment 2 Walker LaRon 2008-12-02 17:15:44 UTC

Additional ****Please note that when we tested the files here, the Chinese Characters displayed correctly on the Squeezebox v3, just not in SqueezeCenter

Comment 3 Michael Herger 2008-12-02 21:56:38 UTC

The simplest answer to this is: don't use WAV files. There's no standard for tagging of WAV files, and they're much bigger than WMA lossless or FLAC. I'd recommend encoding into FLAC and tagging these files.

Comment 4 Walker LaRon 2008-12-03 11:53:59 UTC

Thank you Michael, I will pass this information on to our customer

Comment 5 James Richardson 2008-12-03 12:58:16 UTC

Marking bug as Won't Fix based on the unreliability of Tagging Data for WAV files.