M3U playlist issue

[abescalamis 84]

I notice this issue since the release of server 4.0, if you add a song like "Ozuna - Única" to a M3U playlist, it adds the entry wrong because of the letter Ú in the word Única.

 

This is the entry that emby added to the M3U playlist: #EXTINF:0,00 - Única.mp3

file:/volume1/Data/Media/Music/Ozuna/Única/00 - Única.mp3/volume1/Data/Media/Music/Ozuna/Única/00 - Única

 

 

All players including emby cannot find the location of the song because of the name.

 

 

Please note that this issue is only present on M3U playlists, it seems to work on the native XML emby playlist.

 

 

All of my playlists are M3U and this issue has mess it all up, it will take me a lot of my time fixing.

 

 

Do you thing that I should start using a different player or program to add music for only M3U playlists since Emby prefers XML?

Edited April 24, 2019 by abescalamis

[Luke 42085]

Hi, what should the above example look like?

[abescalamis 84]

It looks like I didn't explain it well in the first post, I hope you get what I mean this time.

 

There is an encoding issue when reading and writing to the M3U playlists, and limits emby potential for Spanish, French and baltics speakers..

 

All of my playlists are in M3U format, if I add a song that has a latin letter example: "Única", it wont be added to the playlist, when I open the playlist using a text editor it says "Única" instead of "Única". this are the issues that comes with it:

 

1.  Adds a bad entry to the playlist and the path is not found
2. The players cannot add that song and the song is not loaded to the playlist.
3. Some players automatically deletes the bad entry if you open this playlists.

 

The solution to the issue would be adding support for M3U8, and/or you can do something like this https://redmine.audacious-media-player.org/issues/568.

 

 

Currently emby only reads M3U8 files.

Edited April 24, 2019 by abescalamis

[abescalamis 84]

If you need I can give you sample files, but it can be easily reproduced.

Edited April 25, 2019 by abescalamis

[Luke 42085]

If you need I can give you sample files, but it can be easily reproduced.

 

That would be helpful, thanks !

[abescalamis 84]

That would be helpful, thanks !

 

Here are two songs, just try to add it to any M3U Playlist.

 

https://hola.aben.xyz:5001/sharing/iUbCAhfyV

[abescalamis 84]

Where you able to reproduce the problem so that I can remove the link?

[Luke 42085]

Hi, yes please try this again with the next release of emby server, thanks.

[laurent92 5]

Hi

I think that the problem is related to the UTF8 or ANSI encoding (see one of my previous post Music playlist and ISO8859-1 / UTF8 format).

However, there is something strange : in my case, m3u encoded as ANSI or ISO were converted in UTF8; leading to missing entries (when the names had special characters)

In that case, it seems as is UTF8 were converted in ANSI (Única in UTF8 ->  Única in ANSI).

 

Regards.

 

Laurent.

[Luke 42085]

Are your m3u files saved as utf8?

[abescalamis 84]

Are your m3u files saved as utf8?

 

 

Luke, what he is reporting is literately the same as what was reported in the link below, at first I thought that the issue was only on M3U playlists but the same issue is also present on the other playlists formats 

 

https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/73348-m3u-music-playlist/

Edited June 12, 2019 by abescalamis