Bugzilla – Bug 3073
Artists containing special characters in iTunes are missing
Last modified: 2009-09-08 09:19:59 UTC
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1248 +++ This is back in 6.5 Tracks from iTunes library that contain accented characters in filename/path do not appear in SlimServer after full scan or rescan. Tracks with accented characters in tags but not filename/path do appear correctly. SS 6.5, iTunes 6, Win XP Home Here's what's in the iTunes XML for location of one of my missing tracks: <string>file://localhost/E:/Bj%C3%B6rk/The%20Times%20Sampler/09%20possibly%20maybe%20with%20the%20brodsky%20q.mp3</string> James
Still a problem after the recent changes... d_itunes debug just says file not found.
Dan: what do you think we can do about this? This is the low-level perl issue where files can't be opened with some accented characters in the names, right? Is there some workaround where we can use old 8.3 names or something?
No - that issue affects non latin1 range characters. This is probably just something dumb in the iTunes plugin.
Does this also fail in 6.2.2? If not, perhaps the target should really be 6.5?
sorry thought it was. I believe this was working correctly in 6.2.2 which is why it's really annoying! Don't seem to be able to change this myself.
whoops. Version is 6.5b1. Target should also be.
I was a victim of the earlier bug that was fixed in 6.2. Now, indeed, it's back... sort of. Before, it affected a larger proportion of my collection. Now it's affecting a smaller percentage (I think - haven't done an exhaustive analysis). For example, one playlist that is actually supposed to be a bit over 3300 tracks in size is now 3276. Also, one of my playlists is named "Hot & Cool" in iTunes, and now SS only shows Hot as the name. I'm currently running the 3-29 daily of 6.5b1. But the silver lining: the "freezup" bug seems to be fixed in this build! Hooray! Of the two, this one is far less irritating, especially since it's smaller in scope. Not sure what characters are being omitted, but in looking through the playlist, I see several showing up that were not making it through the earlier version of this bug, such as apostrophe, umlaut, and several that show up in Spanish names.
Fixed in change 6883