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bluebrother:

--- Quote from: heze on October 03, 2006, 09:55:07 AM ---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.

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As I said before: because Rockbox now uses utf-8 as default. The codepage setting is only used for id3 tags (as id3v1 doesn't have any encoding hints). It has been discussed to use this also for playlists.

You can convert those playlists batch-like on linux using iconv -- should be possible using the vmware devel image also or using cygwin. Don't know of a generic method for windows though.

To get an old version of Rockbox you need to pull the sources from cvs. And, of course, compile it yourself. Most probably it's easier to just convert the files ... (hint: you could try using Knoppix or any other live linux system, fixing should be doable with a single line on the command prompt)

bluebrother:

--- Quote from: heze on October 03, 2006, 11:55:33 AM ---All file names (.mp3 and .m3u) are displayed correctly with the browser. They are opened, but not played...
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Can you explain this in detail? I'm not sure if I understand you correctly. Does opening the files from the file browser work? Or is it only when playing the files by selecting them from the playlist viewer?

heze:
Hi, opening single files from the file browser works - and not. They are opened, but the progress bar does not move, the bit rate has got a question mark, and there is no sound. Instead of the tag, the file name is displayed, e. g. "Motörhead - xyz.mp3", where the "ö" is replaced by a blank.

That's definitely not only an issue with playlist files!

bluebrother:
strange -- does it work when you rename the files to something without umlauts? Am I right assuming opening of files only fails when they have umlauts in the filename? Also, have you tried clearing your settings after the update? (press Rec when the bootloader comes up)
Also, depending on the type of id3 tags of your files the not shown umlauts can result from a wrongly set encoding type or from using a font without umlauts -- try a different font (I use nedora-8 which works fine with umlauts).

heze:
Yes, strange...

Yes, it only happens with files with umlauts in their name. It worked with older versions of Rockbox! What has changed? Any hint by the Rockbox developers? Is there any "regression" with Rockbox?

Pressing Rec does not help!

Nedora-8 does not help. With the old version of September 2005, almost every font worked fine!

Thank you for your effort so far, bluebrother!

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