I finally realized that a problem I'd been having with blank entries showing up in my playlists after they were scanned in from iTunes (where they look fine) was this. And it's not just accented characters. It's any time certain "illegal" characters appear in the pathname to the (in my case) mp3 file, that the scanned-in version of that track shows up with blank track name and album name in the SlimServer library - and any playlists.
And then when it tries to play back this playlist, when it gets to that track, it hangs up, generating lots of interesting messages into the log (I have samples if you want). The illegal characters include comma, the "degrees" symbol (as in Alex Bugnon's 107 "degrees" in the shade album), and various special characters that appear in Spanish-language cuts such as in Linda Ronstadt's "Mas Canciones" album, Buena Vista Social Club, and so on. Not all "special characters" (in programmer terminology) are a problem - parentheses and the "plus" symbol are OK - but dashes (the minus symbol) are not. Let me know if you want my logs, and I'll email you the ZIP. I have also previously emailed these files to your support email address, to Kevin Pearsall. -- MikeGilpin _______________________________________________ beta mailing list beta@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/beta
