Shows "Not Playing" when title from MPD has non-ASCII characters
Bug #596514 reported by
Paul Kuliniewicz
This bug affects 1 person
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Panflute |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
Paul Kuliniewicz | ||
Bug Description
Whenever the song playing has accents, or non-ascii characters in the metadata, panflute says the title of the song is "Not Playing". I'm using mpd as my player. Running mpc gives the informations just fine in a terminal. Music Applet had no problem giving out the same information, and did not complain even with chinese/japanese characters in the title. Other than that, thank you for the awesome program.
Thank you.
Related branches
| tags: | added: mpd |
Revision history for this message
| Paul Kuliniewicz (kuliniew) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in panflute: | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| status: | Confirmed → In Progress |
| importance: | Undecided → Medium |
| assignee: | nobody → Paul Kuliniewicz (kuliniew) |
| milestone: | none → 0.7.0 |
| tags: | added: daemon |
| Changed in panflute: | |
| status: | In Progress → Fix Committed |
| Changed in panflute: | |
| status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
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It looks like the MPD client library is returning UTF-8 encoded strings, but the Panflute daemon's string sanitizer is expecting non-Unicode strings to be ASCII. Decoding fails, so the string gets dropped, and the lack of a title causes the applet to show "Not playing". The solution will be to explicitly UTF-8 decode the strings before putting them in the metadata object.