tanglingpig Posted January 3, 2022 Share Posted January 3, 2022 Songs with special characters in the name are not working correctly in playlists but play if selected through other menus. This just started happening recently and I'm not sure what I changed that is causing it. I'm importing the playlists through the library scanner, and have tag encoding set to default and always use utf-8 for .m3u enabled. Here is the line in the playlist with the special character: #EXTINF:162,José González - En Stund På Jorden D:\Music\Library\Indie\José González\(2021) Local Valley\01-12 En Stund På Jorden.flac Attached are some screenshots of the song not parsing/playing through the playlist but working through the artists menu. Edit: Forgot to mention my specs Android 11 Asus ZenFone 8 Poweramp build-918-bundle-play Full Version 64 bit Quote Translate Revert translation? Arabic Belarusian Bengali Chinese (Simplified) Chinese (Traditional) Czech Danish Dutch English French German Greek Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Indonesian Italian Japanese Korean Persian Polish Portuguese Romanian Russian Serbian Slovak Spanish Thai Turkish Ukrainian Vietnamese Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution andrewilley Posted January 3, 2022 Solution Share Posted January 3, 2022 It looks to me as thought the playlist file is saved as plain ANSII rather than Unicode (UTF-8) which is needed to properly define any special characters. Load it into a text editor such as Notepad++ on a PC and see what the encoding method is. Normally UTF-8 files would have a .M3U8 extender, not just .M3U. Then try a FULL Rescan in PA Settings > Library to reload the updated file(s). Some more discussion of this can be found in this thread (the problem has been fixed by build 918, but files could have been resaved previously): Andre Quote Translate Revert translation? Arabic Belarusian Bengali Chinese (Simplified) Chinese (Traditional) Czech Danish Dutch English French German Greek Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Indonesian Italian Japanese Korean Persian Polish Portuguese Romanian Russian Serbian Slovak Spanish Thai Turkish Ukrainian Vietnamese Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tanglingpig Posted January 6, 2022 Author Share Posted January 6, 2022 Hey completely forgot to follow up. The playlists were not encoded correctly. Thanks for the help. Quote Translate Revert translation? Arabic Belarusian Bengali Chinese (Simplified) Chinese (Traditional) Czech Danish Dutch English French German Greek Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Indonesian Italian Japanese Korean Persian Polish Portuguese Romanian Russian Serbian Slovak Spanish Thai Turkish Ukrainian Vietnamese Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrewilley Posted January 6, 2022 Share Posted January 6, 2022 Excellent, I thought it would be something like that. Andre Quote Translate Revert translation? Arabic Belarusian Bengali Chinese (Simplified) Chinese (Traditional) Czech Danish Dutch English French German Greek Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Indonesian Italian Japanese Korean Persian Polish Portuguese Romanian Russian Serbian Slovak Spanish Thai Turkish Ukrainian Vietnamese Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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