Collectionscanner can't read UTF-8 encoded files

[Kevin Kubasik]

On startup.

[ville palo (vi64pa)]

Does this happen every time you try or just once?

[koshari (holto2go)]

i get the error when the scanner attempts to scan filenames with umhlets or other charactors over a cifs share.

this happens consistantly unles i change the offending charactors on the filename on the share .

[AnRuaRi (anruari)]

scanning a large collection for the first time after a complete reinstall of ubuntu.

The collection was on a ReiserFS drive with known physical unrepaired errors.

[Michal Maňas (michal-manas)]

crash report,

scanned large collection on non-linux drive (NTFS or FAT32, I do not know).

[RJ Marsan (rjmarsan)]

more info? sorry to keep asking but it helps.

[Samsap (samze)]

Happens every time I scan my whole collection.
And get an error message at the end saying that some music file could not be scanned. They seem to have special caracters. (french accents)

[RJ Marsan (rjmarsan)]

So it appears that wierd characters in file names crash AmaroK, can anyone confirm this?

[Andrew Ash (ash211)]

The same bug has been entered into the KDE bug tracker as #137824. They are looking for example files encoded in UTF-8 that cause the scanner to crash. See if you can help them out.

Thanks. I'm also confirming this bug and setting it to medium importance.

[Andrew Ash (ash211)]

Status update:

It turns out this bug depends on changing the way Amarok is compiled, which is being worked on. See bug 81768 for more details.

[Sarah Kowalik (hobbsee-deactivatedaccount)]

fixed in 1.4.5

[freecheeseman (acortelyou)]

I am experiencing this issue with the 1.4.5 package.

[Hans (hans-gabriel)]

Hi,

the problem seem to be not fixed in version 1.4.5. I still have that problem:

shortly before the end of collection scanning (aprox. 91%) apaers a error message like described from Koshari.

But the best of all: Amarok ist running well ...

[Ing0R (ing0r)]

Bug 76938 does not seem to be an dublicate of this here.

[Apostata (m-cahill)]

Running 1.4.6 over here (Feisty) and it does not support UTF-8 encoding.

[Pascal Bach (pascal-bach)]

I can confirm this with kubuntu 7.04 and amarok 1.4.6. It crashes while updating the Collection from a VFAT partition with filenames containing german special characters.

[Pascal Bach (pascal-bach)]

After running the command:

convmv -f iso-8859-1 -t utf8 -r --nfc --notest *

inside my collection directory, amarok doesn't seem to crash anymore, maybe this may help someone.