clementine cannot play songs with foreign names[solved]

[Adel Ahmed]

clementine skips songs that have foreign characters in their name (for example: Slaget vid Blodsälv.mp3)
eselect locale list | grep en_US
[237] en_US
[238] en_US.iso88591
[239] en_US.utf8 *
adel@localhost /media/hdd/songs/metal/Finntroll/2001 - Finntroll - Jaktens Tid $


$locale
LANG=en_US.utf8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.utf8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.utf8"
LC_TIME="en_US.utf8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.utf8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.utf8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.utf8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.utf8"
LC_NAME="en_US.utf8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.utf8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.utf8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.utf8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.utf8"
LC_ALL=


thanks

[Adel Ahmed]

help anyone?

[VoidMage]

Well, let's try to establish a few facts.
1. due to the quirks of filesystem encoding, are you sure the filename didn't get messed up ?
2. clementine is based on gstreamer 0.10 (probably a qt4 limitation), so does 'gst-launch-0.10 playbin2 uri=<foo>' plays the file correctly ?

[Adel Ahmed]

here's what I got when I tried using gst-launch:
$ gst-launch-0.10 playbin2 uri=/media/hdd/songs/metal/Finntroll/2001\ -\ Finntroll\ -\ Jaktens\ Tid/Slaget\ vid\ Blodsälv.mp3
Setting pipeline to PAUSED ...
ERROR: Pipeline doesn't want to pause.
ERROR: from element /GstURIDecodeBin:uridecodebin0: Invalid URI "/media/hdd/songs/metal/Finntroll/2001 - Finntroll - Jaktens Tid/Slaget vid Blods?lv.mp3".
Additional debug info:
/var/tmp/portage/media-libs/gst-plugins-base-0.10.36-r1/work/gst-plugins-base-0.10.36/gst/playback/gsturidecodebin.c(1262): gen_source_element (): /GstPlayBin2:playbin20/GstURIDecodeBin:uridecodebin0
Setting pipeline to NULL ...
Freeing pipeline ...

[i92guboj]

[krinn]

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-995464.html

Like i said here: mistake utf8 and UTF-8 one works, the other not.

[Adel Ahmed]

I've enabled the unicode and nls flags globally and reemerged everything that needed reemerging, I've also followed the guide and set the locale from utf8 to UTF-8
nothing, I'm getting the same error
what I've noticed though:
ERROR: from element /GstURIDecodeBin:uridecodebin0: Invalid URI "/media/hdd/songs/metal/Finntroll/2001 - Finntroll - Jaktens Tid/Slaget vid Blodsälv.mp3".
the ä is not replaced with ?(this happened when I enabled unicode and nls)

[VoidMage]

One minor thing: it's 'uri' not 'filename' - it should start with 'file://'.

[Adel Ahmed]

like this?
gst-launch-0.10 playbin2 file:///media/hdd/songs/metal/Finntroll/2001\ -\ Finntroll\ -\ Jaktens\ Tid/Slaget\ vid\ Blodsälv.mp3
Setting pipeline to PAUSED ...
ERROR: Pipeline doesn't want to pause.
ERROR: from element /GstPlayBin2:playbin20: No URI set
Additional debug info:
/var/tmp/portage/media-libs/gst-plugins-base-0.10.36-r1/work/gst-plugins-base-0.10.36/gst/playback/gstplaybin2.c(3824): setup_next_source (): /GstPlayBin2:playbin20
Setting pipeline to NULL ...
Freeing pipeline ...

[VoidMage]

'uri=file://<foo>'...

[Adel Ahmed]

oops
ok I tried uri=file://
and it's working
clementine is still incapable of playing that same file though

[VoidMage]

OK, next step: 'locale, LC_ALL=C ls -b <that file>'.
Also, run clementine from the same terminal, to establish that locale settings in the environment clementine is run in match the ones in the terminal (as they don't need to).

[Adel Ahmed]

well, LC_ALL=C just rendered my terminal incapable of displaying the foreign characters, I can play the song though using the terminal
so what I did was erase my old playlist and create the exact same one(scanning a folder) the names are displaying correctly now and I can finally listen to my music
not sure what fixed this

it could've been the global nls flag, the glocal unicode flag recompiled a couple of packages so it might be the solution as well(I don't think it's likely though)
generating the UTF-8 locale might have also been the solution

later on I'll try disabling the nls flag again and see if that was the problem

thanks everyone

[VoidMage]

:sigh: the point of ' LC_ALL=C ls -b <that file>' was exactly just to print that name with C escapes for anything outside ASCII, to establish if the name is actually utf8.

[Adel Ahmed]

ah ok I see
I've removed the nls nad unicode flags and everything is still working, it's definitely the UTF-8

thanks everyone