Bug 242168 - Amarok doesn't play files with strange ASCII characters in the name
Summary: Amarok doesn't play files with strange ASCII characters in the name
Status: RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Alias: None
Product: Phonon
Classification: Frameworks and Libraries
Component: Xine backend (show other bugs)
Version: 4.4.0 (KDE 4.4.2)
Platform: Slackware Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Amarok Developers
URL:
Keywords: reproducible
: 247872 261469 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2010-06-19 14:43 UTC by anycolouryoulike
Modified: 2011-12-01 09:02 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

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Attachments
debug output (102.98 KB, application/octet-stream)
2010-12-19 16:59 UTC, Per Lindström
Details
another try (111.67 KB, application/octet-stream)
2010-12-19 19:07 UTC, Per Lindström
Details

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Description anycolouryoulike 2010-06-19 14:43:50 UTC
Version:           2.3.0 (using KDE 4.4.3) 
OS:                Linux

When I try to play some files whose name is ASCII encoded but contains some strange characters such as ñ ó or í, those files are skipped in the playlist

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Just try a file with an ASCII encoded name containing ñ

Actual Results:  
The file is skipped

Expected Results:  
The software should play the file I suppose

My locale is not UTF-8
Comment 1 Myriam Schweingruber 2010-06-21 00:42:21 UTC
I strongly suggest you convert your system and files encoding as well as the id3 tags to UTF-8 or UTF-16. Not only is ISO oldfashioned and pretty obsolete, but there is currently a bug in the sound engine Phonon that prevents non-UTF characters to be read correctly. See also bug 198008

To convert the system please see man locale, and easytag allows to convert all id3 tags quite easily.
Comment 2 anycolouryoulike 2010-06-22 18:14:37 UTC
Well, so it's not an Amarok bug and I've made a duplicate?
However I thank you for the information. I'll convert my files.
Comment 3 Myriam Schweingruber 2010-06-25 10:01:05 UTC
Yes, this is most likely a bug in Phonon. If converting everything to UTF helps, this is indeed a duplicate. Please report back if that helped.
Comment 4 Myriam Schweingruber 2010-07-11 00:41:25 UTC
Any news on this?
Comment 5 anycolouryoulike 2010-07-11 14:31:01 UTC
Yes.
After converting filenames in UTF8 with convmv it works.
I don't know anything about tags, maybe they're already in UTF8, since they are visualized correctly by Amarok.
Comment 6 Myriam Schweingruber 2010-07-12 01:49:16 UTC
Which Phonon backend do you use?
Comment 7 anycolouryoulike 2010-07-12 14:54:29 UTC
I'm using Xine.
Comment 8 Myriam Schweingruber 2010-07-12 15:18:24 UTC
Thank you for the feedback.
Comment 9 Myriam Schweingruber 2010-08-15 09:55:10 UTC
*** Bug 247872 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 10 Harald Sitter 2010-12-18 14:40:48 UTC
Please post the output of 

export PHONON_XINE_DEBUG=5
export PHONON_DEBUG=5
amarok --debug

when trying to play an affected file.
Comment 11 Myriam Schweingruber 2010-12-19 15:05:17 UTC
Changing status
Comment 12 Per Lindström 2010-12-19 16:59:38 UTC
Created attachment 55077 [details]
debug output

output from running amarok with this command line:
export PHONON_XINE_DEBUG=5;export PHONON_DEBUG=5;amarok --debug /mnt/diverse/Musik/samling/Ebba\ Grön/1978\ -\ 1982/Ebba\ Grön\ -\ Totalvägra.ogg >amarok_out 2>&1
Comment 13 Harald Sitter 2010-12-19 17:18:43 UTC
Since Per is apparently not using xine, let's revise this a bit

export PHONON_PULSEAUDIO_DEBUG=5
export PHONON_VLC_DEBUG=5
export PHONON_GST_DEBUG=5
export PHONON_XINE_DEBUG=5
export PHONON_DEBUG=5
amarok --debug
Comment 14 Per Lindström 2010-12-19 19:07:03 UTC
Created attachment 55080 [details]
another try

output from running amarok with this command line:
export PHONON_PULSEAUDIO_DEBUG=5;export PHONON_VLC_DEBUG=5;export PHONON_GST_DEBUG=5;export PHONON_XINE_DEBUG=5;export PHONON_DEBUG=5;amarok --debug /mnt/diverse/Musik/samling/Ebba\ Grön/1978\ -\ 1982/Ebba\ Grön\ -\ Totalvägra.ogg >amarok_out 2>&1
Comment 15 Myriam Schweingruber 2011-02-10 12:44:21 UTC
(In reply to comment #13)
> Since Per is apparently not using xine, let's revise this a bit

Shouldn't his be treated in a separate bug then? This one is clearly about the xine backend. Else it becomes impossible to track I fear.
Comment 16 Myriam Schweingruber 2011-02-10 12:44:55 UTC
*** Bug 261469 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 17 Ilja Pavkovic 2011-03-23 20:19:11 UTC
(In reply to comment #9)
> *** Bug 247872 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

why do you think so? this one seems to be about non-utf-8 chars in file name. Bug 247872 looks like a not properly encoded usage of "%" in uri?
Comment 18 Myriam Schweingruber 2011-12-01 09:02:01 UTC
We are sorry, but the xine backend is unmaintained: http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-announce&m=130744384419151
Please use the phonon-backend-gstreamer or thre phonon-backend-vlc instead.