Subsonic ignores all mp3s containing Ä Ö Ü etc.

[tosh]

Since Updating to 3.9 subsonic ignores all mp3s whose names contain German Umlauts (Ä, ä, Ü, ü, Ö, ö). I'm pretty sure that my previous version correctly listes all thes files (don't remember if it was a 3.9beta. And I didn't change anything else...

Any ideas?

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Version   3.9 (build 1335) – 9. Februar 2010
Server   jetty-6.1.x, java 1.6.0_15, Linux (18,0 MB / 28,0 MB)

[andykvakk]

I have the same problem, but I thought it was the linux version that was the problem. Installed Ubuntu yesterday and Subsonic with the .deb file you have provided.

On my Android I cannot play files with ÆØÅ, i can see the songs (with funny characters), but not play.

[GastLag]

I've got the same problem with the 3.8.
It works if I change the letter with accent. But it's complicated to change the names of all the files...

[jrh.koenig]

I had the same problem on my linux qnap nas server. Subsonic runs in a tomcat server. I changed the default language of subsonic from english to german. Then I restarted the tomcat server to restart subsonic. After that mp3 from Bands like Motörhead or Mötley Crüe are accessable again by subsonic.
But it looks like that problem comes from the language settings from the OS enviroment. What is your LC_ALL setting? Is it set when you start your subsonic server?

Regards

Johannes

[tosh]

It seems for my machine that LC_ALL and LC_LANG are not set at all .

Anyway I tried starting subsonic with different settings of these variables but then subsonic won't work anymore, the index.view just giving me an error message

[andykvakk]

Still no luck for me.

Output of locale on my Ubuntu 9.10 with Subsonic installed from deb package:

LANG=nb_NO.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=nb_NO:nb:no_NO:no:nn_NO:nn:en
LC_CTYPE="nb_NO.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="nb_NO.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="nb_NO.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="nb_NO.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="nb_NO.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="nb_NO.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="nb_NO.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="nb_NO.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="nb_NO.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="nb_NO.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="nb_NO.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="nb_NO.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=


I cannot play or see/play any of my songs with ÆØÅ in the filename. On my Android i can see the songs, but not play.

[andykvakk]

I opened /var/subsonic/subsonic.properties and wrote "no" (Norwegian) after Localevariant, like this: LocaleVariant=no and now i can play songs containing ÆØÅ. The songs are not listet with the correct characters, but I can now play them.

Edit: Search for songs/artists containing ÆØÅ does not work yet.

[andykvakk]

Seems that it does not work 100%, folders must be without æøå and search does not work correctly when song or artist has æøå in file/foldername

[tosh]

I now have two installations of subsonic:

One on my 64bit Suse 11.1 that displays the umlauts correctly and one in a virtual machine, 32bit Suse 11.1, that ignores all files containing umlauts. They have the same java VM. So the only difference I can find is 32bit<->64bit. Anybody observing the same behaviour?

[jehan]

any news on this?
artists like "Sivert Høyem" are just not showing up in the search or the index.

[BKKKPewsey]

I do not have that particular artist but this one comes up fine

[Juliusachim]

Hello.

I have the same problem. Linux Mint and actual Subsonic Server.
No ä ö ß (German "Umlaute")

Is there a solution to fix this?

[cclecle]

You also need to rebuild your database after setting LC_* settings.
Note: Last time I managed to make it work I also had to handly remove db files from subsonic dir.

[shoelaceORG]

My default Subsonic directory is /opt/subsonic/

This file must be found in the root Subsonic default directory: subsonic-booter-jar-with-dependencies.jar

This fixes the charset issue of characters creating folders instead of seen as mp3s, as far as I can tell.