Bugzilla – Bug 16981
Server will not play files with non-ASCII file names
Last modified: 2011-07-27 02:27:36 UTC
This is a major issue for me with Slim Server 7.5.3 (r38185), which is pretty up to date I think. I can't see any reason why the server can't be fixed. For me the problem is with file and directory names, not necessarily playlists and meta tags (as per #8196). If I rename a directory (and all files it contains if necessary) with a special character in it and rescan changes it plays just fine. Otherwise the server craps out with an error if you try to play a track from such a directory. The error doesn't show up in any server logs as far as I can tell, but shows on the screen of a player ("Error opening file..."). The server shows the correct characters from the meta tags and will play the tracks just fine once the file names are "clean".
If you re-name a track and don't re-scan, it won't play. Doesn't matter if its non-ascii or not.
Sorry, was I not clear enough? By "otherwise" I mean that the track won't play before it has the non-ASCII chars removed from the file name, not that it wasn't scanned. If it wasn't scanned it wouldn't even show up in the SBS UI would it?
This has been fixed in the 7.6.0 release. I had the same problem with some tracks from Sigur Rós, but ever since I've started using the 7.6.0 beta release the problem is gone.