Cross 1.6: Importing playlist with special characters

[DJ_Promille]

While testing importing and exporting playlists I recognized following problem:
If a song in an imported playlist contains special characters like the german ä, ö, ü the track will not be imported correctly. The tag is missing and the quality smilie is red. Next thing I do is to search with "Relocate" for the track and then load the tag again. That works fine - except for the smilie. It stays red because the audio infos (bitrate, etc.) are not refreshed.

Is there any way to refresh the audio infos?
(I know that I could add the broken entries by drag & drop, but that's not a nice way if you use one small monitor and have like 50 broken entries.)

-Promille

[Dj Nico]

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I upgraded from MixvibesDVS7 to Cross recently.
I'm using all the same music. Some of the tracks that I added to my collection shows in strange language e.g. "开椀开昀攀攀氀开氀漀瘀攀开⠀漀爀椀最椀渀愀氀开攀搀椀琀⤀" This happens in the title, artist and album colums. How can I fix this. It did not happen in MixvibesDVS7. (Same music)
There are more than 500 tracks where this happened and I do not have the time and patience to edit each filename. When I flag the Filename and Location, they show correct. The other +/- 7000 tracks are showing fine.

PLEASE ASSIST. Allot of my House, Trance and Psy Trance tracks are useless to me cos I dont speak or read Chinese or Japanese

[stick]

Hi there,

That's a weird one !
Could you please post us one of your mp3s, for which tag's informations are turned into these asiatic characters ?
We'll then be able to reproduce the issue by our side and check what's happening.

Thanks for your report,
Nicolas.

[Dj Nico]

Thanks for the quick reply.
Could it have something to to with the amount of tracks I have in my collection. What is the maximum amount of tracks that one could have in a collection. I currenty have 7600 and plan to add more. Just a note, I added some more tracks last night to the same collection and they were ok.

I will send you one of the mp3's.
You will see that there are no special characters or anything funny in the details.
I cant attach it, larger than 2mb... all of them are.
Could you send me an e'mail I can send it to?

[sylMV]

Most of the time, these display bugs are due to text encoding issues in the mp3 tags themselves.

id3 specifications are quite precise on this point but most of the tagger just ignore them, using any text encoding, and thus being able to read their tags back but disturbing tag readers that follow the specs...

That's why having some of your buggy tracks might help us finding a solution.

By the way, which piece of software did you use to tag your tracks ...?

[Dj Nico]

I did not edit the tags. Well, in most cases anyway.
I have just sent the 7mb origional .MP3 file.
If anything was ever edited in the past, it might have been the genere field. Sometimes I change that to "Trance" or whatever before I import the file. It makes it easier to manage the files it the genere tag is done prior to importing. When I do edit this tag, I usually select several tracks in that folder, and edit their tags all at once.
Have a look at the file and let me know if it could be something that I might have done to the tags.

[sylMV]

Maybe you didn't edit you tags but someone created them !
So next question, where did you get your tracks ?

[Dj Nico]

mmm, that is very hard to say. I've been collecting music since I started DJ'ing in 1995 1996. Some were ripped from vinyl that I purchased, some from CD's I purchased, some I got from other DJ's and friends, some were purchased on-line, etc...
There is no way of telling you where I got any particulat track from. The tracks that are giving me this problem come from any of these. Some House, some trance, and some psy trance and a few electro.
I'm using the same music in my DVS7 and never had this problem. My DVS library/ .vib file was built on my previous PC. WindowsXP Pro, but I have migrated all of that to my new PC and still no errors there.

[Dj Nico]

Hi, I have upgraded to Cross 1.7 RC and I still have this issue.
I have been playing arround a little with the files and thought I'd inform you of the strange results.
-I selected a track with the issue "nalin & kane - beachball 2003 (level k mix).mp3"
-I removed it from my collection and deleted the "nalin & kane - beachball 2003 (level k mix).mp3.analysis" peak file data.
-I editted the track name and removed the "&" ampersand, new track name is "nalin and kane - beachball 2003 (level k mix).mp3"
-In Cross, I browsed to the file and it was displaying correct.
-I added to to the collection and all was fine.
----THEN----
I did the reverse... i deleted the same track from my collection and peak file directory, edited the track and gave it the origional name.. "nalin & kane - beachball 2003 (level k mix).mp3", browsed to the file and found that this time, it was displaying correctly. I added it to my collection and it works.
--- I have several tracks thet use the ampersand "&" character and they dont have any problems?? so I dont think it was the problem.
>>> I tried the same operation on another track that had this problem.. "Deux - Sun Rising Up ( Dub Mix ).mp3" >> note that there are spaces at the brackets "( Dub Mix )" I removed the spaces,"(Dub Mix)" , and that sorted out the track in the playlist after deleting and re-importing.
It seems like as soon as I edit the track details in any way in explorer, Cross sees the file correctly.
ANY IDEAS? I can't edit each track like this, It will take me forever.
Does anyone have a similar issue with Cross?

[sfronti]

I had this issue with greek fonts in Cross 1.5.5 not with 1.6 or 1.7. I imagine that your filenames are ok, so fix your tags correctly renaming tags from filename with a tag editor.Then mark all tracks and just save idtags.