Cyrillic encoding in filenames

[lucidreamer]

Hello everyone,

This is my very first post. I recently came across this great project and just after playing with it for a couple of days I decided to donate and become a permanent member. Really wonderful piece of work, all the praise to Sindre Mehus and other developers for building this application!!! I can now stream my audio to my HTC Rezound everywhere I go and another wi-fi-enabled Droid phone in the house, no hassle transferring and worrying about space left, transcoding from WAV, OGG, APE or FLAC to MP3 done on the fly, messing with playlists vs folder structure, etc.... Of course, there is always room for continuous improvement and one always wishes for having more bells and whistles to any services in the world, not only Subsonic. But taking into consideration the timeframe this project was built - it is really incredible!!! I only hope that in the future there will be more useful features added based on the requests that people are suggesting and programmers' bandwidth to implement those requests.

I was wondering whether there is already a fix that exists to properly display Russian songs on Subsonic website and on Android devices. Half of my music collection has Russian songs and I can perfectly see filenames and tag information that contains Cyrillic-encoded values in WinAmp and other players. I use Win 7 and set Russia to non-Unicode format displays in Regional settings to have other programs and filenames show properly. However, on the Subsonic website and the Android app some Russian audio files are showing fine, some are garbled. I tried to convert a test audio file using various ID3 MP3 editors, but no effect whatsoever. I am not a Java programmer myself, I use other languages and platforms at work, but just looking at the .class and other related files, it seems to be a UAT-8 to UAT-16 issue. Any thoughts, recommendations?

Thanks

[BKKKPewsey]

Welcome

Can you check what sort of tags you are using eg. ID 2.3 or ID2.4
The reason I ask is I believe 2.3 only accepts UTF16 but UTF8 support was added to 2.4.
You are probably on the right lines on why some tags are showing correctly and some not
You may need to wait for Sindre to "pop in" to get a definitive answer (or one of the modding gurus )