blank songs

[Phillip Kerman]

My hypothesis on this matter is that the squeezebox/slimserver has problems
with many special characters--maybe something to do with the Unicode issue
already discovered.

It seemed like the songs that wouldn't play were random--but then when an
entire Björk album wouldn't play I figured it out.

Squeezebox/Slimserver doesn't like special characters--including:
ö (as in Björk)
Ü (as in California Über Alles)
é (as in Mapeyé)

This seems like something that should be easy to address.

Please advise.

Thanks,
Phillip

> -----Original Message-----
> From: discuss-bounces (AT) lists (DOT) slimdevices.com
> [mailto:discuss-bounces (AT) lists (DOT) slimdevices.com] On Behalf Of
> Phillip Kerman
> Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2003 9:09 PM
> To: 'Slim Devices Discussion'
> Subject: [slim] blank songs
>
> I have _several_ .mp3 files that play fine in iTunes and,
> really, any other
> MP3 software--but not the squeezebox. It's weird. I get all
> the ID3 tags
> but when I say "play", I just hear silence. I can't figure any reason
> why--I mean, other songs on the same album play fine. It's very
> frustrating.
>
> Any clues?
>
>
>
> Thanks,
> Phillip
>
>

[dean]

blank songs

The full latin1 character set does work for characters in tags, but
we've had a report that filenames with non-ASCII tags are problematic.
The bug has been filed and we'll be fixing it soon.

-dean

On Dec 21, 2003, at 4:08 PM, Phillip Kerman wrote:

> My hypothesis on this matter is that the squeezebox/slimserver has
> problems
> with many special characters--maybe something to do with the Unicode
> issue
> already discovered.
>
> It seemed like the songs that wouldn't play were random--but then when
> an
> entire Björk album wouldn't play I figured it out.
>
> Squeezebox/Slimserver doesn't like special characters--including:
> ö (as in Björk)
> Ü (as in California Über Alles)
> é (as in Mapeyé)
>
> This seems like something that should be easy to address.
>
> Please advise.
>
> Thanks,
> Phillip
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: discuss-bounces (AT) lists (DOT) slimdevices.com
>> [mailto:discuss-bounces (AT) lists (DOT) slimdevices.com] On Behalf Of
>> Phillip Kerman
>> Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2003 9:09 PM
>> To: 'Slim Devices Discussion'
>> Subject: [slim] blank songs
>>
>> I have _several_ .mp3 files that play fine in iTunes and,
>> really, any other
>> MP3 software--but not the squeezebox. It's weird. I get all
>> the ID3 tags
>> but when I say "play", I just hear silence. I can't figure any reason
>> why--I mean, other songs on the same album play fine. It's very
>> frustrating.
>>
>> Any clues?
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Phillip
>>
>>

[Morten Fischer-Madsen]

blank songs

I can confirm this to be a bug. Files with Scandinavian/Danish letters in
them (æ, ø, å) don't play either.

Best regards,
Morten Fischer-Madsen


"Phillip Kerman" <lists (AT) phillipkerman (DOT) com>
wrote in message news:200312220648.hBM6m2EN020389 (AT) lists (DOT) slimdevices.com...
>
> > The full latin1 character set does work for characters in tags, but
> > we've had a report that filenames with non-ASCII tags are
> > problematic.
> > The bug has been filed and we'll be fixing it soon.
> >
>
>
> Yeah, it's definitely the filenames. And, folder names.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Phillip