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rosie

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Danish characters in tags
« on: March 13, 2006, 07:25:45 am »

Tags in music files (ripped to FLAC with CD-DA Extractor) that include Danish character are not shown correctly. Strange characters are added to the end when displayed in MC so an almbum is splited up in four og five almbums.
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Re: Danish characters in tags
« Reply #1 on: March 13, 2006, 12:02:12 pm »

The FLAC plugin may not support Unicode properly.  This plugin is provided by a 3rd party. (not JRiver)

You can rip inside of MC to APE or WMA Lossless and have full lossless + Unicode support.
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Re: Danish characters in tags
« Reply #2 on: March 13, 2006, 01:54:45 pm »

I just ripped and encoded a file with MC11.1.143 (using Scot Thompson's Flac encoder v 1.5 and decoder v. 1.5) and with Easy CD-DA Extractor 7.5.1 (I don't have a newer of version of this).

Before ripping I replaced the original names with strings that contain all Danish characters that I am aware of. Both files show correct and identical file tags inside MC. Here is a playlist export in XML format that contains all library fields (the first file is ripped with MC):

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>
<MPL Version="2.0">
<Item>
<Field Name="Filename">D:\Rip\(Multiple Artists)\1 ÅÆØÁÍÓÚÝåæøáéíóúý ÅÆØÁÍÓÚÝåæøáéíóúý\03 - 3 ÅÆØÁÍÓÚÝåæøáéíóúý ÅÆØÁÍÓÚÝåæøáéíóúý.flac</Field>
<Field Name="Artist">2 ÅÆØÁÍÓÚÝåæøáéíóúý ÅÆØÁÍÓÚÝåæøáéíóúý</Field>
<Field Name="Album">1 ÅÆØÁÍÓÚÝåæøáéíóúý ÅÆØÁÍÓÚÝåæøáéíóúý</Field>
<Field Name="Name">3 ÅÆØÁÍÓÚÝåæøáéíóúý ÅÆØÁÍÓÚÝåæøáéíóúý</Field>
<Field Name="File Type">flac</Field>
<Field Name="Genre">Pop</Field>
<Field Name="Bitrate">912</Field>
<Field Name="Media Type">Audio</Field>
<Field Name="File Size">23442506</Field>
<Field Name="Duration">205</Field>
<Field Name="Track #">3</Field>
<Field Name="Date Created">1142278129</Field>
<Field Name="Date Modified">1142278321</Field>
<Field Name="Date Imported">1142278164</Field>
<Field Name="Date">34700</Field>
<Field Name="Sample Rate">44100</Field>
<Field Name="Channels">2</Field>
<Field Name="Bit Depth">16</Field>
</Item>
<Item>
<Field Name="Filename">E:\Rip\1 ÅÆØÁÍÓÚÝåæøáéíóúý ÅÆØÁÍÓÚÝåæøáéíóúý\03. 2 ÅÆØÁÍÓÚÝåæøáéíóúý ÅÆØÁÍÓÚÝåæøáéíóúý - 3 ÅÆØÁÍÓÚÝåæøáéíóúý ÅÆØÁÍÓÚÝåæøáéíóúý.flac</Field>
<Field Name="Artist">2 ÅÆØÁÍÓÚÝåæøáéíóúý ÅÆØÁÍÓÚÝåæøáéíóúý</Field>
<Field Name="Album">1 ÅÆØÁÍÓÚÝåæøáéíóúý ÅÆØÁÍÓÚÝåæøáéíóúý</Field>
<Field Name="Name">3 ÅÆØÁÍÓÚÝåæøáéíóúý ÅÆØÁÍÓÚÝåæøáéíóúý</Field>
<Field Name="File Type">flac</Field>
<Field Name="Genre">Pop</Field>
<Field Name="Bitrate">917</Field>
<Field Name="Media Type">Audio</Field>
<Field Name="File Size">23579217</Field>
<Field Name="Duration">205</Field>
<Field Name="Track #">3</Field>
<Field Name="Date Created">1142277971</Field>
<Field Name="Date Modified">1142278022</Field>
<Field Name="Date Imported">1142278283</Field>
<Field Name="Date">34700</Field>
<Field Name="Encoder">Easy CD-DA Extractor (http://www.poikosoft.com)</Field>
<Field Name="Sample Rate">44100</Field>
<Field Name="Channels">2</Field>
</Item>
</MPL>

My OS is US English. I have no idea if a Danish OS can make any difference. I have a Finnish OS in one of my PCs and I could give it a try. In general, those accented characters belong in the standard extended characters set and they should work with any Windows system.
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Re: Danish characters in tags
« Reply #3 on: March 13, 2006, 04:19:32 pm »

I just tried Yahoo! Music Engine and it shows all tracks with Dansh characters corectly so there must be an issue with MC as I see it. I have an English OS (WinXP) by the way.
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Re: Danish characters in tags
« Reply #4 on: March 13, 2006, 04:28:36 pm »

Have you installed the latest FLAC plugins?

Here is the decoder plugin change log:

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Version History

Version 1.3.0 -- The first pretty stable version. Works with MC versions 10, 11.0 and 11.1. Has a bug where tags with extended characters don't work right.

Version 1.4.0 -- Fixed the bug from 1.3.0 where the extended characters weren't working (UTF8 encoding). Updated to mjp script installation on 01/14/2006. Works with both 11.0 and 11.1.

Version 1.5.0 -- Updated to use JRReader for compatibility with the Library Server. Only works with MC 11.1. Beta version released Feb 11, 2006.

You may want to check this thread out too:

http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=32383.0
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