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Sir Alan

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Unicode characters causing crash
« on: April 08, 2004, 04:58:53 am »
If I convert the format of a track whose title includes Unicode characters (such as an e with a caron), MC crashes between decoding and encoding.

This does not happen if the characters appear in the Composer or Album fields, so Dvorбk (spelled correctly with a caron on the r) is accepted.

The offending characters are handled correctly in the media library.

I can't give actual examples here, as the forum also throws them out.
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Unicode characters causing crash
« Reply #1 on: April 08, 2004, 05:49:43 am »
I tried with this file:

Filename: E:\Rip\Tatu - Х-Русская Дискотека - 01 - Мальчик Гей.mp3

ID3v1 Tag: (128 bytes)
   Name: Мальчик Гей
   Artist: Tatu
   Album: Х-Русская Дискотека
   
ID3v2 Tag: (1538 bytes)
  TPE2 (Band/orchestra/accompa..): Х-Русская Дискотека
  TPE1 (Lead performer(s)/Solo..): Tatu
  TALB (Album/Movie/Show title): Х-Русская Дискотека
  TIT2 (Title/songname/content..): Мальчик Гей

I converted: mp3 -> ape -> wav -> mp3 -> wma -> ogg

- no problems here.

Media Center Registered 10.0.110 -- C:\Soft\MJB\

Microsoft Windows XP  Workstation 5.1 Service Pack 1 (Build 2600)
Intel Pentium 4 2857 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 1048 MB, Free - 733 MB

Internet Explorer: 6.0.2800.1106 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.82 (xpsp1.020828-1920) / Shlwapi.dll: 6.00.2800.1400 / Shell32.dll: 6.00.2800.1233 (xpsp2.030604-1804) / wnaspi32.dll: Internal ASPI Layer
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Sir Alan

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Unicode characters causing crash
« Reply #2 on: April 08, 2004, 08:46:25 am »
Quote from: Alex B on April 08, 2004, 05:49:43 am
I tried with this file:

Filename: E:\Rip\Tatu - Х-Русская Дискотека - 01 - Мальчик Гей.mp3

It appears that all the characters you used can be generated by ALT+0nnn in the normal way;  the characters that cause the problem are those which have only a unicode id - the only way I know of getting these is to copy them from the Character Map and paste them into the text (I'm sure if there is a shortcut, someone will tell me!)

Try with the letters I described: e and r with a caron (U+011B and U+0159).  I could leave off the accents, but I prefer to spell the names and titles correctly, or at any rate as they are printed on the album notes.
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Re:Unicode characters causing crash
« Reply #3 on: April 08, 2004, 09:04:14 am »
We've released this build at 10.0 Release.

We will go on making new builds and put out a maintenance release in a few weeks.

Free at last!
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Re:Unicode characters causing crash
« Reply #4 on: April 08, 2004, 09:27:44 am »
Quote from: Sir Alan on April 08, 2004, 04:58:53 am
If I convert the format of a track whose title includes Unicode characters (such as an e with a caron), MC crashes between decoding and encoding.

This does not happen if the characters appear in the Composer or Album fields, so Dvorбk (spelled correctly with a caron on the r) is accepted.

The offending characters are handled correctly in the media library.

I can't give actual examples here, as the forum also throws them out.
There is a known problem with the Lame mp3 encoder and Unicode characters. Does the conversion work ok if you don't use mp3 encoding? Maybe you could email me the track names with unicode characters and I'll try it out here.

johnt @ jriver.com
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Re:Unicode characters causing crash
« Reply #5 on: April 08, 2004, 11:19:57 am »
Quote from: JohnT on April 08, 2004, 09:27:44 am
There is a known problem with the Lame mp3 encoder and Unicode characters. Does the conversion work ok if you don't use mp3 encoding? Maybe you could email me the track names with unicode characters and I'll try it out here.
Thanks, they're on their way.
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