Skipping Flac-files with UMLAUT in filename – why?

[belu]

If I remember correctly, this was no problem until some time ago (don’t ask me whether I changed something in the character-set-settings on my system – at least I don’t think that I did).
Now any title containing a german Umlaut (äÄöÖüÜß) is skipped. I changed some titles (ä -> ae etc.) and the problem was gone. Still some remaining files are left for documentation here (“St??ck” should read “Stück”):

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Log file: firefly.log

2007-06-20 14:59:11 (e33ca64f): Firefly Version svn-1586: Starting with debuglevel 2
……

2007-06-20 14:59:42 (e33ca64f): Cannot read FLAC metadata from H:AUDIOKinderKinder2005Janna2005St??ck_3Schaefer.flac
2007-06-20 14:59:42 (e33ca64f): Skipping H:AUDIOKinderKinder2005Janna2005St??ck_3Schaefer.flac – scan failed
….

2007-06-20 14:59:47 (e33ca64f): Scanned 3252 songs (was 3252) in 30 seconds

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Any Idea?

Thanks in advance

Bernd

[fizze]

grüsse 😉

Which OS are you running?
And what version of firefly are you running?

The paths indicate its some brand of Windows – which one?
Where does your music reside? On a local drive or a shared network drive?
In the latter case, what kind of device is this?
What filesystem do you use to store your music?

[belu]

Gruß zurück!

Ooooops – I forgot:
WinXPSp2, local Drive, NTFS – that’s it.
The FF-Version is the latest (see the log-file excerpt).

BeLu

[fizze]

Weird.
That particuliar file played fine before?
Did you try a full rescan?

[belu]

If I remember correctly I had no scan-problems some time ago (and the files played well).
When I discovered the problem recently, I tried rescan etc. …. but nothing changed 🙁

The easy — but not very elegant — solution is, of course, to avoid these characters in pathnames. So there is no really big problem….

BeLu

[rpedde]

@belu wrote:

If I remember correctly, this was no problem until some time ago (don’t ask me whether I changed something in the character-set-settings on my system – at least I don’t think that I did).
Now any title containing a german Umlaut (äÄöÖüÜß) is skipped. I changed some titles (ä -> ae etc.) and the problem was gone. Still some remaining files are left for documentation here (“St??ck” should read “Stück”):

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Log file: firefly.log

2007-06-20 14:59:11 (e33ca64f): Firefly Version svn-1586: Starting with debuglevel 2
……

2007-06-20 14:59:42 (e33ca64f): Cannot read FLAC metadata from H:AUDIOKinderKinder2005Janna2005St??ck_3Schaefer.flac
2007-06-20 14:59:42 (e33ca64f): Skipping H:AUDIOKinderKinder2005Janna2005St??ck_3Schaefer.flac – scan failed
….

2007-06-20 14:59:47 (e33ca64f): Scanned 3252 songs (was 3252) in 30 seconds

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Any Idea?

Thanks in advance

Bernd

Path stuff is about to all change on next nightly, so I’ll hang on that until next nightly.

— Ron

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