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surfer:
I have spanish songs with the character ñ in the titles. in general i can play them without problems from directories or playlists.

but this character changes to a sign 'A+' when added to a playlist in the "playlist catalog". when i try to play the added song i get an '[ERR]...(song title)' shown at the beginning of the song title on the playlist and the song simply does not start to play.

Lear:
Hm, a similar problem has been reported before... One possible reason is that the file name isn't using the proper character encoding on disk, and that for some reason this gets mangled when added to a playlist.

How did you copy this file (i.e., using what OS. If on Linux, it might be a bad setting in the fstab entry)? Can you check the character code the ñ has been converted to in the playlist? It'd be nice if you could check the actual character code on disk too, but I don't really know how to do something like that...

[Edit:] Another possibility... Exactly what do you do after inserting the track but before trying to actually play the file? Saved the playlist anywhere? If so, under what name?

surfer:
i use win XP sp3 and the audio-manager "MediaMonkey".

i copy the files dragging them in windows explorer or using the sync feature of the mediamonkey.

From mediamonkey i export an empty m3u playlist "x.m3u" (UTF-8 encoding)whch i put into the rockbox folder "playlists" so that i can see it in the "playlist catalog". so the playlists is already there when i add songs to it.

while playling a track i i hold select (ipod) and get the context menu for the playlist catalog and to add songs. while adding to "x.m3u" the character ñ becomes the strange sign 'A+'



--- Quote ---you check the character code the ñ has been converted to in the playlist?
--- End quote ---

when i only new how to do that? :-)

markun:
Try renaming your playlist from .m3u to .m3u8
Rockbox converts .m3u files from the selected codepage to UTF-8, so that's probably your problem. .m3u8 files are expected to be in UTF-8 already.

surfer:
Thanks a lot, markun, renaming to .m3u8 solved the problem but only partially:
all the titles with the wrong sign ñ changed to ñ after renaming to m3u8 .... but only when you take a look at them in rockbox.

but when you take a look at the same playlist in mediamonkey, in which you can see the content of a playlist anywhere on your drives, the titles contain again ñ instead of ñ.
as a result you can not open this playlist completely in other apps like foobar or winamp because the tracks with the wrong ñ are not found.


and one more thing:
when i open the playlist with the simple text editor of winxp with the coding option "ANSI" you see the added titles with ñ, but when you open it with the coding option "UTF-8" you see the titles with the wright character ñ.

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