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Title: some characters in tags, titles, name ets can break webgizmo playlists
Post by: kfrank on June 04, 2012, 08:57:26 am

I have experience trying to play a playlist using webgizmo through my web browse (firefox and chrome) where I have determined that certain characters in either song titles or artisits names break the playlist and it it will not play. It appears as the the javascript that is served up does not properly escape certain characters and just a single none escaped character can break the javascript syntax. Ha s anyone else had this issue? I just wanted to make someone aware of this bug and hope it can be addressed in a future update. It can be quite a problem since I often use ""shuffle 100 random songs" and nothing plays. It takes quite a few click to actually get that list to "refresh" witha different list that does not cause the error.

Thanks again... love your product and have been using it happily for years :) Hope this post helps to make it even better.

Keith  

Title: Re: some characters in tags, titles, name ets can break gizmo playlists
Post by: JimH on June 04, 2012, 09:03:50 am

Do you mean WebGizmo?

Title: Re: some characters in tags, titles, name ets can break gizmo playlists
Post by: kfrank on June 05, 2012, 10:58:37 am

Yes... sorry if that was not clear.

Title: Re: some characters in tags, titles, name ets can break webgizmo playlists
Post by: JimH on June 05, 2012, 11:09:09 am

OK.  I changed it above.  We'll see if we can duplicate the problem.

Title: Re: some characters in tags, titles, name ets can break webgizmo playlists
Post by: kfrank on June 05, 2012, 11:29:58 am

Jim... I'm sure your developers are aware of this but firebug was a great help in pinpointing the problem. When a playlist has one of the offending characters the audio player does not even render so the page appears blank after clicking "play now" firebug should report a javascript error.

Title: Re: some characters in tags, titles, name ets can break webgizmo playlists
Post by: kfrank on June 05, 2012, 12:58:45 pm

Jim just got the error... here is an example of where it occured:

within the playlist array

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{ 0: { src:"http://kfmusic.dyndns.org:8891/Gizmo/MCWS/v1/File/GetFile?File=37626&Token=wwjdEI9Y&Conversion=WebPlay&Playback=1",type:"audio/mp3"}, config: { enableFlashFallback: true, title: "Tears are not enough (12")", cover: "MCWS/v1/File/GetImage?File=37626&Token=wwjdEI9Y"}},
the error was:

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Unexpected token )
looks like the error occured at:
 not enough (12")",

Title: Re: some characters in tags, titles, name ets can break webgizmo playlists
Post by: Scolex on June 05, 2012, 01:25:31 pm

Is the title of the song Tear are not enough (12") as in the song came from a 12inch record
If you change it to (12in) does it work?
I would assume that the " inside the parenthesese is being interpreted as closing quote for the [Name] 

Title: Re: some characters in tags, titles, name ets can break webgizmo playlists
Post by: kfrank on June 05, 2012, 01:44:45 pm

Yes that would work if I changed it... it looks like the characters such as a double quote should be escaped.
I believe 

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title: "Tears are not enough (12\")" would work.