maximus wrote: > I will give a very brief history of my Umlaute (character) issues > first. > > LMS on Windows first wasn't able to handle special chars in filenames, > then later it was. This is just about the time I switched to Mac, where > it never worked. > (Just to be clear, track names within the .cue sheets always were read > correctly, just the filenames didn't work.) > So what I did was to manually rename some of the files, but just the > ones that were important for me to find when browsing on LMS. The rest I > want to clean up now. > > Unfortunately, the Mac somehow fu**ed up my cue sheets. For example, it > changed all ä to , ö to and ü to ¸. At some point I will have to run > a batch script to change this back. > > Anyway, because of this the scan obviously couldn't find some files. > Here's an example: > > -Slim::Formats::Playlists::CUE::parse (473) Error: Couldn't find > referenced FILE: [/volume1/music/Ripped CDs/CH/Asita Hamidi's Bazaar - > Nafâs.wav] on disk! Skipping!- > > (This was because â was changed to ) > > Here's where it gets strange though. I manually copy-pasted the filename > back into the .cue sheet for a few albums. Scanning still didn't work > after this: > > -Slim::Formats::Playlists::CUE::parse (473) Error: Couldn't find > referenced FILE: [/volume1/music/Ripped CDs/CH/Asita Hamidi's Bazaar - > Nafs.wav] on disk! Skipping!- > > LOL, just got a step closer to the solution. Because in the scanner, it > reads 'Asita Hamadi's Bazaar - Nafs.wav'. However, just now when I > copy-pasted it showed up. I clearly have some character encoding > issues, I have to look into this. > > Edit: To be very precise, the forum actually changed the symbol for > unknown character to . Before I submitted my post, it showed as unknown > character. > > Edit 2: OK, this is clearly just a presentation error. Mac TextEdit > displays wrong characters, Windows Editor and the LMS software the right > ones. Regarding the file names, I'm just manually removing special chars > from all of them now, this is probably the fastest way to fix this.
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