hubert lelong Posted June 28, 2022 Share Posted June 28, 2022 Hello, I have some playlists with spanish or french titles such as "Angelis - soñar y nada mas" or "hervé vilar - Capri" On my PC or on my old MP3 reader, it is not a problem. On my android phone (redmi note 10 with android 11RKQ1) with Poweramp (full ; last update May 22) those titles are not recognized in a playlist. Of course if I go directly to the song thru the file structure, it works, but it is not a solution, right ?) Anything I can do, other than renaming hundred of files ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrewilley Posted June 28, 2022 Share Posted June 28, 2022 Playlists refer purely to physical filenames, the Title/Artist/Album/etc tag details are not used. Android uses Unicode (UTF-8, two bytes) character set encoding for filenames, whereas Windows may use Latin1 or even plain 8-bit ASCII when you create the playlist. So your playlists also need to be recognised as UTF-8 if they contain links to filenames that contain special characters beyond the basic 7-bit alphanumeric character set. It may be as simple as renaming the playlist files from .M3U (simple ASCII file) to .M3U8 (Unicode UTF-8), or you may need to convert and re-save them in a fully-featured text editor such as Notepad++ on a PC. You could also try enabling "Always Use UTF-8 for .M3U" in Settings=>Library=>Scanner, or even change the Tag Encoding method in the same menu (but normally that would be fine on default). Andre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hubert lelong Posted July 3, 2022 Author Share Posted July 3, 2022 thanks for your answer. UTF-8 for m3u is already on. I'll try changing to M3U8 tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hubert lelong Posted July 4, 2022 Author Share Posted July 4, 2022 thanks a lot, worked perfectly. Changing all list is an easy task. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrewilley Posted July 4, 2022 Share Posted July 4, 2022 Excellent. Did you need to edit and/or re-save the files, or was just changing the extenders sufficient? Sometimes even with the 'Always Use UTF-8 for .M3U' option ticked, changing the extender too seems to do the trick. Andre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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