| Summary: | Amarok skips or refuses to play songs with accented characters | ||
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| Product: | [Applications] amarok | Reporter: | raffo.he |
| Component: | Playlist | Assignee: | Amarok Developers <amarok-bugs-dist> |
| Status: | RESOLVED DUPLICATE | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | nhn, teo |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | 2.3.0 | ||
| Target Milestone: | 2.3.2 | ||
| Platform: | openSUSE | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
| Attachments: | Amarok in debug mode trying to play a track with accented characters. | ||
I've had this problem since Amarok 2 came out. Which phonon backend do you use? This is on an opensuse 11.3 distribution. The phonon is Xine, ver. 0.2.60. To workaround this problem, make sure your LOCALE is set to UTF-8 or UTF-16 and that your tags are in UTF as well. Easytag or kid3 allow you to mass-retag your tracks if necessary. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 242168 *** This may be redundant, but I'd place my experience in converting the encoding of the file names in my collection. After converting them, all the files were visible to Amarok. (This may be useful to other people when searching this archive, since I didn't find the solution clearly described.) Just converting the LOCALE to utf-8 does not fix the problem, it just makes all the ISO-8859 characters look wrong. The rest of the solution is as follows: First, I switched my locale setting "LANG=en_US.utf-8" in my .profile Second, I run this command: convmv -r -f ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8 * this will do a dry run conversion of the file names, recursively through directories. If all looks good then run: convmv -r -f ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8 * --notest The only caveat appears to be that if one of the subdirectories in the tree has also non UTF-8 characters in them, then convmv will not convert it. What I did was to convert the directory name first and then run the recursive convmv command above. |
Created attachment 50557 [details] Amarok in debug mode trying to play a track with accented characters. Version: 2.3.0 (using KDE 4.4.4) OS: Linux When I add to the playlist a song that contains accented characters either in the path or filename it does not play and Amarok skips to the next song. The songs are correctly listed in the collection with the accents. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Add a track with accented characters in the path or filename Actual Results: Track does not play, skips to next song. Expected Results: Play the track I added.