Bug 173002 - amarok can't handle .m3u files in UTF-8 encoding
Summary: amarok can't handle .m3u files in UTF-8 encoding
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 171595
Alias: None
Product: amarok
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: openSUSE Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Amarok Developers
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Reported: 2008-10-17 02:15 UTC by Steffen Michalke
Modified: 2008-10-17 12:05 UTC (History)
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Description Steffen Michalke 2008-10-17 02:15:01 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE 4.1.2)
Compiler:          gcc-4.3.unknown compiled by openSUSE
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs

I maintain my audio collections with .m3u files, These files are operated properly by many applications, including amarok.

The problem occurs with .m3u files which are unicoded (UTF-8). Lines within them with non-ASCII.characters are ignored. I know that those files are not corrupted because xmms can play them.
Comment 1 Lydia Pintscher 2008-10-17 02:23:16 UTC 
Which version of Amarok. Please always provide this information.

Is this a duplicate of bug 171595 or only related?
Comment 2 Steffen Michalke 2008-10-17 02:55:49 UTC 
I do apologize, I use amarok version 1.90 w/ KDE 4.1.2.

I started amarok under strace and found the following:

amarok: [EngineController] [WARNING!] Phonon failed to play this URL. Error:  "The file or folder /home/<real user:deleted>/mm/aud/Abriss West/2005 Kontrollfunktion/Kapitalismus tÃ<U+0083>¶tet.ogg does not exist."

Obviously, amarok or the phonon backend failed to interpret the 'ö' (UTF-8). Its representation to amarok looked like 'Ã<U+0083>¶', which is way to weird even in terms of Unicode. The file name is '../mm/aud/Abriss West/2005 Kontrollfunktion/Kapitalismus tötet.ogg'.

I hope you can help me and thank you in advance.

Ciaoi
Steffen
Comment 3 Seb Ruiz 2008-10-17 02:57:39 UTC 
Could you please update to beta2 (1.92), as there have been significant changes. Please let us know if the problem still exists!
Comment 4 Steffen Michalke 2008-10-17 03:48:52 UTC 
Thank you, Seb. I have installed v1.92.2 from SuSE's factory repositories.

Now  I cannot play any .m3u files anymore (from within the application nor from the command line nor from konqueror), I can only select and play single audio files.

That is why I cannnot tell you whether that upgrade concerns the problem at all.
Comment 5 Mark Kretschmann 2008-10-17 12:05:11 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 171595 ***