[SOLVED] mpd refuses to play songs with unicode in the filenames

Hi,
I've been using MPD+Sonata for a while now (two great pieces of software), unfortunately I just tried to play some songs stored in files with unicode characters (i think they're unicode, the ones with the accents, like 'è') and they refuse to play.
I modified my mpd.conf file to set filesystem_charset to both ISO-8859-1 and UTF-8 (restarting mpd and rebuilding the DB each time) and then it simply refused to add the songs to the database. Furthermore, when I uncommented the line again, MPD still won't add them to the database.
Any ideas what's going on?
Thanks in advance!
Last edited by capnfabs (2009-01-17 07:01:14)

ah... ok! it seems that the problem is deeper than that. I have my music stored on an NTFS drive and it would appear that these files have disappeared, as far as linux is concerned. I'll move the thread to something more appropriate
And that was fixed by a remount. Sorry for wasting everyone's time! :-/
Last edited by capnfabs (2009-01-17 07:00:59)

Similar Messages

When I import a CD album that includes songs with co-artists, the album is saved once with all of the songs with the main artist only, and then one album for each song with a different co-artist. How can I avoid that or fix that result after the fact.

When I import a CD ablum that includes songs with co-artists, the album is saved once under the album name with all the songs from the main artist; then each song with a different co-artist is saved separately under the album title with just that song. Who do I prevent that or fix it after the fact, i.e., copy the single songs to the main album?

Why aren't songs with the same album art grouped together? - http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1468
Compilation checkbox is under options tab when editing multiple tracks at once.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4559720 - discussion of using compilation vs. album artist to group tracks
Jan 2014 discussion: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5775641

I have imported videos to my lap top (Windows Vista), from my new ipad. Quick time plays them with audio, however the screen is black. What is the fix?

I have imported videos to my lap top (Windows Vista), from my new ipad. QuickT
ime plays them with audio, however the screen is black. What is the fix?

Experimental advice (in this particular context) coming up.
Open your QuickTime control panel (either via the Control panels, or by going "Edit > Preferences > QuickTime Preferences" in the Quicktime Player). In the Advanced tab, uncheck Enable Direct3D video acceleration:
... and click OK. Quit and restart the QuickTime Player prior to checking to see if the settings change has had any effect.

I tunes on my iphone will not play songs. it runs through the library at break neck speed when i click on a song...help!!, i tunes on my iphone will not play songs. it runs through the library at break neck speed when i click on a song...help!!

i tunes on my iphone will not play songs. it runs through the library at break neck speed when i click on a song...help!!, i tunes on my iphone will not play songs. it runs through the library at break neck speed when i click on a song...help!!

Try force-closing the Music app: from the home screen, double-tap the home button, locate Music in the list at the bottom, tap and hold it until it wiggles, tap to close it, tap the home button again, then try to play your music again.

ITunes Match sometimes skips / plays songs with exclamation marks

Using iTunes Match (v10.5.3) from my MacBook (OS X 10.6.8) I synched about 60G of music located on an external hard drive connected to my home-based AirPort Extreme base station into Apple's cloud. It works great from my iPhone and the iMac in my remote office, but occasionally when I connect with my MacBook I get these confounding exclamation marks between the song list number and the selection check box.
When this happens and I attempt to play a song with an exclamation mark sometimes iTunes prompts me to connect to the hard drive connected to the Airport and when I don't the exlamation points appear. Other times I can play the songs, but only if I individually select them; otherwise it skips all the songs with exclamation marks until it finds a local song (or recording) (i.e. without an exclamation mark).
Sometimes restarting iTunes gets rid of the exclamation marks, sometimes it doesn't. I've noticed that I often have this problem when I upload new music to the Airport-connected hard drive. But sometimes it happens without me uploading.
Through trial and error I'm starting to get a sense of what's happening but it still feels kind of arbitrary. Can someone explain what's happening?
Many thanks in advance.

The problem is that iTunes thinks the external HDD is not connected so it can't find the actual song files. So the problem you need to solve is why is the external HDD not connected.

My iphone still plays songs with lower quality instead of 256kbps

I enabled iTunes match on my iPad and iPhone 4S. However, it already
has my songs already synced on them and when I play songs it plays at
lower quality than at 256kbps as claimed by Apple.
One option is to delete all the songs on the iPad and iPhone. But that
will require me to delete every song individually. How do I solve this
problem?

When you turn on iTunes match on your iOS device it should warn you that it is going to delete your songs. You will then need to redownload the ones you want to listen to from the cloud.

[SOLVED] Clementine Refuses to Play MP4 (Missing Plugin)

I am having the same issue as described here: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=120851
Clementine is refusing to play mp4 files, giving the error: "Your GStreamer installation is missing a plug-in."
As an additional note, the mp4 files play perfectly in VLC.
What I have tried so far:
1. Installed gstreamer0.10-plugins group
2. Reinstalled faac and faad2
3. Reinstalled libmp4v2 and lame
4. Deleted directory ~/.local/share/gstreamer-1.0
However, even after these steps I am having the same issue.
Out of the multimedia/music players I've tried clementine most closely fits my needs, so I would like to stick with it.
Does anyone have any idea what's going on and how to fix it? Please let me know if I should provide any additional information. Thanks.
Last edited by WorkingOnIt (2014-05-26 03:01:08)

Thanks a lot for your reply. I do have gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg installed; I believe it's included in the gstreamer0.10-plugins group and just double-checked and it's there. I also just tried changing the extension to .m4a as you suggested but no luck; same error message.
And I do have those above codecs:
"gst-inspect-0.10 | grep qtdemux" yields: "isomp4: qtdemux: QuickTime demuxer"
"gst-inspect-0.10 | grep aacparse" yields: "ffmpeg: ffmux_adts: FFmpeg ADTS AAC muxer (not recommended, use aacparse instead) \n audioparsers: aacparse: AAC audio stream parser"
"gst-inspect-0.10 | grep faad" yields: faad: faad: AAC audio decoder"
Here's the full output of gst-inspet-0.10 in case that's helpful, although it's a lot: http://pastebin.com/1Xet30CK
I checked VLC as you said, and for the mp4's,
audio codec: "MPEG AAC Audio (mp4a)"
video codec: "H264-MPEG-4 AVC (part 10) (avc1)".
decoded format (video): "Planar 4:2:0 YUV".
The page gives some more information, but I don't think anything so relevant (channels, sample rate, resolution, etc).
Do you have any other ideas, and is there any additional information I should provide?

URGENT PLEASE HELP: iTunes Will Play Songs With No Sound.

Hello all. I recently did the following and significantly screwed up my iTunes:
-Tried to move my directory to an external hard drive.
-This didn't work, so I then had to reload my iTunes.
-I did this by doing the standard copying the .xml library file to the desktop, deleting the old library files and importing the new .xml into the iTunes.
-However, I now have music in my iTunes, but when I click on files, they'll play but with no sound. No exclamation point comes up next to them to signal they're missing, but just no sound.
-Tried uninstalling and then reinstalling the latest iTunes. Still nothing.
I also tried dragging a random song into iTunes to see whether it was just a directory mix-up still, but no dice. Right now, the directory for my iTunes is Macintosh HD:Users:name:Music:iTunes:iTunes Music.
Please help!!!!

Well, that could be, but before thinking of an hardware issue, first check all possible software settings.
Try this:
In System Preferences>Sound there are two volume sliders.
Set the Output volume about halfway. Now move the Alert volume slider just a little bit. This normally will invoke the Mac to play the selected alert sound.
Still no sound?
Can you connect a headphone to the PB?
If yes, does it have sound?
M

60Gb iPod won't play songs with bitrate 80kbps or less

Hello,
My 60Gb iPod will no longer play songs encoded with bitrates of 80kbps or less. I think the problem started after I upgraded iTunes to v7.0.2(15) and the iPod to v1.2.
If I try to play one of these songs the iPod screen goes black, then the Apple logo appears, and after about one minute the main menu reappears. This happens every time, whether I select the songs in the "Songs", "Artists", Albums", etc. categories, or if one of these songs are encountered in a playlist.
It also happens whether the files have been bought on the net from eMusic, encoded in iTunes from my own CDs, or from any analog source. I have a lot of old lo-fi jazz recordings which I have encoded in mono to save hard disk space, and these songs played OK before the upgrade.
There seems to be one exception, however: Podcasts seem to play OK.
I have tried the soft reset on the iPod (the "menu" and "select" buttons for 6 seconds).
Any others having this problem?

Pity, I needed the bass boost in the headset.
Hope this will be fixed in the next upgrade, then.
yeah, it's not an optimal workaround.
perhaps try keeping an eye on the following document:
Articles modified in last 7 days
if the "mono mp3" document shows up in it again, perhaps check to see if a better workaround (or a proper resolution) has been announced.

Cannot play song with cloud icon

I have a bunch of songs in my iTunes library that have a cloud with a down arrow next to them. I have seen on this discussion board that these songs are in the cloud and just need to be downloaded to the device (in this case, my Macbook), but when I click on the song/icon, nothing happens. The song won't even play. How do I fix this?

The only way that music that was not directly purchased from iTunes would be in the cloud is via iTunes Match. If you do not have Match, then the only music that would have a cloud next to it would be the purchased music. You indicated:
Jamie Burkes wrote:
there doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to which songs are "stuck in the cloud"... some were itunes downloads, some were imported from cds, some were downloads from other music services
If you have music imported from CDs or downloads from other music services showing a cloud next to them, you have iTunes Match....
https://www.apple.com/itunes/itunes-match/
Cheers,
GB

IPod tracks stuck at 0.00 - refuses to play songs

My brand new iPod video would let me select whatever track I chose, then display all the info, album art, etc, but sit frozen at 0.00 (start of the progress bar) I wuold be able to access everything, just like normal, it just flat out refused to play anything. If I picked a video track, it would freeze at a balck screen and the the only resolution then was to reboot.
It would do this periodically, so I returned it.
My next iPod video does the SAME thing! This can't be coincidence. I have the latest iTunes software, updates, etc.
Anyone have the same problems or any suggestions?
PC Windows XP

This is a fairly common problem. I have no idea what Apple had not issued a fix for it yet. But here is a thread from a couple months back with one theory as to WHY it happens...
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1988850
Patrick

Why do i hear no sound when playing songs with headphones and without?

all of a sudden i can't hear any song i play, using the headphones and not using the headphones. I've done the hard reboot three times, turned on and off my itunes icloud, then back on. Still no sound when playing music.
Any solution?

i wish it were that simple (mute button)
Everyone I work with is having the same problem, presently Apple's Music Match is not working.
I certainly hope they will be able to fix this as soon as possible.

ITunes won't play songs. Nor even the song samples at the iTunes store.

My sound system is working fine. Commercial CDs play in WMP.
I downloaded latest version of iTunes along with Quicktime. Download/install: no problem. I tried to get some m4p songs I'd saved on a CD to load back into iTunes, and while 1 or 2 appeared in iTunes, they would not play. I click on the spkr icon next to the song...no response. They would not transfer from the CD to iTunes. I gave up trying. (Same thing happens at the Music Store with its 30 second samples.) Doesn't make any differene what song I select. My computer is working fine; I get on the net with no problem. I do not get any error messages. The Diagnosic check from iTunes shows everything normal re my computer settings and network settings. (I'm using XP).
I tried a "Repair" install of iTunes...didn't help. I uninstalled iTunes and re-downloaded the setup.exe file, then reinstalled iTunes. Didn't change anything.
At the moment I've no songs in iTunes--when I call iTunes up, I am taken directly to the Music Store where I have a current, functioning account. IS THAT NORMAL WHEN YOU'VE NOT SET UP A PLAYLIST? And am I correct that itunes uses Quicktime to play iTunes songs?
I have 3 CDs I made of iTunes songs. One was burned with Roxio Easy Media Creator 7.5. Another was burned with XP itself. A third was burned with iTunes and it will play in my car CD Player and in WMP 11 in my computer. iTunes will NOT play any of the three. If I put a commercial music CD in my computer, iTunes loads all into itself the songs and will play them.
It's a problem when an uninstall and reinstall of iTunes does nothing. I also just ran a Repair Install of XP last night. Went mostly OK; I got a messsage: "Windows could not load the installer for tape controller." I clicked OK as I don't use any tape device. There was another message: "The CinePlayer Decoders have not yet been activated. You must activate the product before use. Please run the player that included these decoders in order to activate the product". Again I clicked OK. I don't know what those cine player decoders do or what a cine player is. Movies? I checked my movie files--they played fine in WMP. I did not copy the CDs (any of them) to my HDD before trying to get them into iTunes but...would that have mattered?
What to do? I would like to get my Music Store songs back into iTunes from my CDs. Hope a clean XP install is not necessary.

go into iTunes Preferences-->iPod
change Auto Synch to Manually Synch

When playing songs on my ipod the tracks begin 21 seconds into the song

Something weird is going on with my 3rd gen iPod Touch (32gb). When I play music, very often I run into a problem where all or most of the tracks in an album will begin playing 21 seconds into a song. For instance, I might select the first track in an album and it begins playing at 0:21. I can jump back to the beginning of the track and it plays normally, but then when the song ends it begins playing the next track at 0:21. This will continue for most of the tracks in a given album (but sometimes not all). I can always skip back to the beginning of the track, but each time an affected track is played it begins at 0:21.
I have reset my iPod to factory settings and then restored to a back up. I'm currently using iOS version 4.1 and I'm unfortunately unable to update any further. (Further iOS updates require updating iTunes, and I am unable to update past iTunes 9.2.1 because I'm still running OS 10.4.11.)

Additional info: It's not always 21 seconds, but the time remains consistent within an album. 75% of the tracks on The Lonely Island - Incredibad begin at 0:21. Half of the tracks on David Bowie - Scary Monsters begin at 3:16. The last two tracks on Ziggy Stardust begin at 2:24. Etc, etc.

Can't open a file with spaces on the filename.

Lets say I have a file:
/home/orv/Open - Me - Please.txt
When I double click to open that file with any program, the result is something like this:
"Unable to find /home/orv/Open%20-%20Me%20-%20Please.txt"
I'm not sure what to call that process of converting the file name so I've been unable to google it up to find a fix or a way to change the behavior of the file manager.
I've checked the settings in Nautilus and nothings there. Any clues? Thank you!
Last edited by orv (2007-12-14 23:11:59)

I tried removing everything in my home directory to erase all settings, still the same problem.
I tried using a different file manager and still the same problem.
Here's another example of my problem and its quirks:
Lets say I have a file called:
/home/orv/I am a Movie.avi
In nautilus or thunar, double-clicking that file so I can play it with Mplayer will give an error:
Failed to open file:///home/orv/I%20am%20a%20Movie.avi
However, when I drag and drop using the file manager into Mplayer, it works.
So my problem is this automatic conversion of whitespaces into the %20 which I don't know how to turn off.

[SOLVED] mpd refuses to play songs with unicode in the filenames

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for