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heze:
Hello all,

I have my Iriver H140 and use Rockbox since September 2005. Everything worked fine so far.

Now I thought, it's time to try an actual build of Rockbox. The first time after about a year.

But with this version, MP3s and playlists with german umlauts like "ä,ö,ü" are no longer played. I tried different fonts. But nothing helps. What can I do? Unfortunately, I removed the old version of September 2005!

Genre9mp3:
Have you tried to change the Default Codepage? (General Settings > Display > Default Codepage) I think “ISO-8859-1” should work for you but OTOH I'm not sure why your files no longer play. Maybe someone else has a better idea...

bluebrother:
Playlists have to be encoded in utf-8. Sometime during the summer of 2005 Rockbox got utf-8 support which means that all playlists generated before need to be converted into utf-8 (unless you don't use any extended characters like umlauts).

There is also a task in the tracker describing this. It has been discussed how to handle this better but hasn't been addressed yet. Simply open the playlists with a good text editor and re-save them as utf-8.

heze:
Thank you for your replys!

Changing the default codepage unfortunately does not help...

I have hundreds of m3u-playlist files, all created with Winamp's playlist editor. Partly before summer 2005 and partly last weeks...

Why worked that fine with a version of September 2005 and no longer with an actual version of Rockbox? Is there a chance, to get such an old version again? Thanks.

heze:
Just to say, it's not just an issue with the playlists, but also with the mp3 files themselves.

All file names (.mp3 and .m3u) are displayed correctly with the browser. They are opened, but not played...

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