I reimplemented the plugin for Light Media Scanner responsible for parsing mp3 metadata, and one of the reasons I did it, was because the older plugin had some issues with different encodings and so.

I tested here with various different encodings and it seems to work fine.

Could you please send me some files that are badly displayed to my mail so I could check here what is the problem. In the mail, please send me what should be displayed, as I don’t know Russian .

It would also be nice to know what canola version you are using.

Some id3 tags are malformed and the encoding field is wrong, but let me check first.

Regards

The right link is https://garage.maemo.org/tracker/?atid=1989&group_id=125&func=browse
(the Canola 2.0 bugs). But the bug 2066 is still not clickable

I set the list to UTF-8, ISO8859-15 – no changes. The albums/artists still do not include Russian names.

I know being Polish, that western programmers tend to forget that a simple modification in one place is a showstopper to any simple user not using ANSI/Latin-1 encoding and a major inconvenience to others.

BTW, why do you play MP3 rather then Ogg files?

https://garage.maemo.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2066&group_id=125&atid=1989 fails to open, at least on our machines.

I’m taking care of these non-ASCII issues and it should work. Please try with last canola2 and remove and then add the media folders again (“Force rescan” is just a trigger to scan for new media or file changes, since the file have not changed they’ll remain untouched).

Also, some ID3 fields have no pre-defined encoding. For these we try some converters in order to get them in UTF-8, the first one in the list is ISO-8859-1. You can change this list with:

cnl-get-prefs canolad
cnl-set-prefs canolad charsets “['XXXX', 'YYYY']”

where XXXX and YYYY are iconv charsets.

Thanks,

(see bug 2066 – I cannot open it for some reason)