Extended Character Support

[SmplyUnprdctble]

If an mp3 file has an extended character (like é, è, etc), it won't be available to play (and if an album has a character like that, it's not even able to be browsed). It may be listed at times, but it looks like there may be an exception happening, but it's not showing up in the log.

I have learned that if the character is in the ID3 tag, it shows up as � but can still be played.

Are there any plans to support these extended characters? Or should I be renaming everything without those characters?

[cinchel]

i would to second this. i just noticed this as a problem. I am not even sure how many albums I have that have extended characters in either the title or the musician so re-naming is not really an option.

[oeh]

Some answers:
http://forum.subsonic.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3618
http://forum.subsonic.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1121&highlight=extended+character

[SmplyUnprdctble]

And, now I've learned how to get it working (thanks to one of the links provided by oeh)

If you use a Tomcat installation and utilize the .WAR deployment method, it works beautifully (couple extra configuration steps, but that's fine).

The short of what I did was uninstall the Subsonic package from my Ubuntu installation. Then I installed Tomcat6 via the Package Manager, and deployed the subsonic.war file.

I had to recreate /var/subsonic and change it's owner to tomcat6.

After that, it worked beautifully.

Hope this helps everyone. Not sure why the Jetty server doesn't work with the extended characters.