ID3 tags with accentuated characters not read by WinCAB

[pascal]

Hello,

Your software is really excellent and it will decide me to try to build a juke box from old components that were lying around my office. I only have one issue and I wish that you may help me: when trying to load MP3 of French music (yes, by the way I'm writing from Paris in France) the ID3 tags may contain accentuated characters like

[Chris]

This is a known weakness in the software, one that I'm not quite sure how to address.  ID3 tags may contain Unicode characters, and WinCab attempts to use Unicode properly.  It seems to work on some tags and not on others, leading me to believe some tagging tools are using Unicode and some are using some other method like code pages.

In your case, however, it sounds like the tags aren't being read at all, so the accented characters may not really be the issue.  Are the tags being read for ANY of your songs?

--Chris

[pascal]

What a quick answer...

It looks like no tags containing accented characters are being read, but when the file name is used, if it contains those type of characters they are displayed. Still I got the impression that once in a while it works. For English songs it works perfectly. Any idea of a tagging tool that use 100% unicode characters that I could use to do more test?

Pascal

[Chris]

If you're using Windows XP, you can edit the tags right in Explorer by going to the file's Propertes, then the Summary tab.

Note that if you are using an internationalized version of Windows with a non-English codepage, WinCab will almost certainly not read files with accented characters in the filenames; this is a known bug.

--Chris

[pascal]

I using a French version of Windows XP and I haven't notice any issue with the file name.
Concerning the ID Tags,

[pascal]

Chris,

I tried many things but could not succed. Is the issue comming from my tags, from my French Window or from the id3lib.dll? Do you have any plan to look at this issue?


Regards

[pascal]

Hello Again,

I did more testing tonight, if I manually edit the jukebox.db file and add my

[JustMichael]

I have same type of problem.  All songs by groups or artists with "funny" characters (such as Blue

[pascal]

Chris,

I did more test on an XP machine:
1- I removed all the non-standard characters from the file names -> Wincab read the ID3 tags but I cannot modify the .db file to have the correct characters being displayed.
2- Put back the accentuated characters in the file name -> Wincab does not read always read the ID3 Tags but the .db file can be corrected. If Wincab does not read the tag the song name is OK and does not need to be modified and the artist default to Various (the file name is used in the db file). If Wincab read the tag, the accentuated characters are displayed as an arrow in the list and as an ^ in the now playing display but they can be corrected by editing the file.

It looks like upon creation the .db file is created with a limited characters set (page code ?) in the first case and not in the second. Don't know if this can help you to have a look at this bug, let me know if you need me to do more test.

regards
Pascal

[JustMichael]

I was able to get WinCab to see all of my "Blue

[pascal]

If Jukebox.db is a text file coded in UTF-8 then it's possible to edit the file and replace the ^ by the correct

[pascal]

I nearly finished what I call my Jukebox, have a look at the pictures below:


It works with a mouse and mofified version of the bjrock28 skin.
Still need to do the deco

Regards

[Chris]

I believe I have fixed this bug, I'm waiting for a tester to verify it.

--Chris

[pascal]

Hello Chris, I can do some testing for you. Just let me know where I should go to download the modified release or email it to me.

Regards