Cannot display non ascii characters (Greek) in filenames or Metadata in Media Library - Airtime Support Discussions on Sourcefabric Forum

Spyros Theodosis · Post edited by Spyros Theodosis at 2012-01-27 07:16:04

Hello everyone.

I am trying to import some greek mp3 files into media library with non-ascii characters in filenames and metadata.

The files in the Playlist Builder with non-ascii characters are being displayed like this: "ÁÍÙÑÉÌÏÉ"

Airtime installation is on a debian squeeze with apt

When i am importing such files from the "add media" menu, the
filenames there are being displayed correctly, but afterworlds, in media
library are not.

I suppose that this is a python problem on MediaMonitor.py so I
tried to set python encoding to UTF-8 or to iso-8859-7 by placing the
-*- encoding: utf-8 -*- but it didn't help.

Any ideas ??

Thank you in advance

Spyros Theodosis

Spyros Theodosis · Post edited by Spyros Theodosis at 2012-01-31 07:42:17

Actual the problem is on the id3 tags
The id3 tags is in Greek with encoding iso8859-7.
With the help of tag2utf the tags has been converted to utf-8.

Martin Konecny

Glad you found the solution. Unfortunately if the tag encoding is non UTF-8 and not specified in the MP3, then it is very hard for a computer to guess the correct encoding. Usually an encoding is guessed, which was obviously incorrect in your case.

Vassilis Kipouros

Media monitor stops processing greek filenames in my installation too.

:(

Albert FR

what is the error ? perhaps we have the same

http://forum.sourcefabric.org/discussion/13720/problems-with-media-monitor-on-2.0.0.4

Spyros Theodosis

There is no error. Both file names and id3 tags are being parsed successfully but the carracters are not apearing in correctly Greek alphabet.

With the help of tag2utf the tags has been converted to utf-8 and they are being displayed correctly.

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