Bugzilla – Bug 2182
Garbled character display on browser and player UI
Last modified: 2008-09-15 14:36:01 UTC
2005-09-24 nightly. I have come across several files where an apostrophe (’) in the title is displayed as a garbled character in the browser interface and player UI. Tracks were ripped from CD to Apple Lossless using iTunes 5. In iTunes, track title will appears as: She’s Gone (Kraak & Smaak Remix) - Resin Dogs In Slimserver browser and Squeezebox2 UI, track title will appear as: 1-14. She’s Gone (Kraak & Smaak Remix) - Resin Dogs (See attached image) Squeezebox 1 displays track title as different garbled characters. I have copied the file "1-14 She_S Gone (Kraak & Smaak Remix).m4a" to ftp server electricrain.com/ incoming
Created attachment 849 [details] screen shot showing garbled character
I coped and pasted the offending character from iTunes to the bug report and the bug report also displays it garbled! There obviously seems to be a problem with this particular character which was imported when ripping and wasn't typed using the keyboard. If I edit the title in iTunes and replace the character with an apostrophe using the keyboard and do a clear and rescan, the title is displayed correctly.
Michael - was this file tagged on a Mac or Windows box?
Dan - it was tagged using iTunes on a Mac. I've come across several other characters which were displayed garbled - certain types of dashes (not sure if they were en-dashes, em-dashes or another type) and an ellipsis (...) In each cases, the tracks were ripped from CD using iTunes therefore the track information was pulled down from CDDB.
And forgot to mention - I am using Music Magic Mixer.
Hmm.. I still can't reproduce, even importing that track to MMM. I did however check in a Unicode related change just now - r4441 It will be in the 2005-09-28 nightly. Please let me know if that fixes it.
Dan - I'll try this out again over the weekend. thanks,
I tried this using the 10-01 nightly and the garbled characters no longer occur. Thanks,
10-01 nightly. I've just ripped a new CD and come across another garbled character display on both the web browser and Squeezebox display. There are two tracks in which an e-acute character is garbled on the web browser and Squeezebox display but displayed correctly on iTunes (see attached screen shot) The CD was ripped using iTunes on a Mac. I have uploaded the file to electricrain.com - file name 1-08 Amazing Love.m4a
Created attachment 884 [details] screen capture screen capture showing 2 tracks displayed correctly on iTunes but garbled on Slimserver web browser. The track titles are also garbled on the Squeezebox display.
Just to add more information - I editted the e-acute accent in the song name and replaced it with an e- acute character copied from a song name which did display correctly. After a clear and rescan, the song name was displayed correctly. Could there be some strange encoding in the tag data pulled down by iTunes when ripping the CD?