[vip3000]

hi all.
i have been using this program for a couple of hours and it looks very interesting.

the problem is that i cannot play some of my music because the filenames contain characters in my language (faroese) like á, ð, ý and others.

the filenames show up in xbmc just fine but when i click on them it says "playlist playback aborted. too many consecutive failed items"

the log file shows that xbmc cannot handle these special characters.

i think i have looked through the whole program but i am unable to find any options what can fix this problem.

[jmarshall]

Welcome to the forums!

Would you mind showing us the log file? It should be in ~/Library/Logs/xbmc.log

Are the files local or are they served over smb?

Cheers,
Jonathan

[vip3000]

this log file is around 140 kb in size, so there is little point pasting the whole file.
i am pasting the error itself plus a few lines at each end.

05:33:48 T:2687487904 M:851456000 DEBUG: OnKey: 11 pressed, action is 7
05:33:48 T:2687487904 M:851415040 DEBUG: new file set audiostream:0
05:33:48 T:2687487904 M:851415040 DEBUG: CPlayerCoreFactor::GetPlayers(/Users/ew/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Compilations/Hanus G. Johansen/14 Vónsvikin.mp3)
05:33:48 T:2687487904 M:850661376 INFO: MP3Codec: Loaded decoder at 0x1279e000
05:33:48 T:2687487904 M:850661376 WARNING: Unable to resolve: MACDll-osx.so _Z16c_GetAPEDurationPKc, reason: dlsym(0x134308d0, _Z16c_GetAPEDurationPKc): symbol not found
05:33:48 T:2687487904 M:850661376 ERROR: Unable to resolve exports from dll Q:\system\players\paplayer\MACDll-osx.so
05:33:48 T:2687487904 M:834920448 DEBUG: CFileCache::Open - opening </Users/ew/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Compilations/Hanus G. Johansen/14 Vónsvikin.mp3> using cache
05:33:48 T:2687487904 M:834920448 ERROR: Open - failed to open source </Users/ew/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Compilations/Hanus G. Johansen/14 Vónsvikin.mp3>
05:33:48 T:2687487904 M:834920448 ERROR: MP3Codec: Unable to open file /Users/ew/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Compilations/Hanus G. Johansen/14 Vónsvikin.mp3
05:33:48 T:2687487904 M:834945024 ERROR: CAudioDecoder: Unable to Init Codec while loading file /Users/ew/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Compilations/Hanus G. Johansen/14 Vónsvikin.mp3
05:33:48 T:2687487904 M:851394560 ERROR: Playlist Player: skipping unplayable item: 18, path [/Users/ew/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Compilations/Hanus G. Johansen/14 Vónsvikin.mp3]
05:33:48 T:2687487904 M:851394560 DEBUG: Playlist Player: too many consecutive failures... aborting playback
05:33:48 T:2687487904 M:851394560 INFO: Loading skin file: DialogOK.xml
05:33:48 T:2687487904 M:851394560 DEBUG: Load DialogOK.xml: 1.80ms
05:33:48 T:2687487904 M:851394560 DEBUG: ------------------- GUI_MSG_WINDOW_INIT
05:33:48 T:2687487904 M:851394560 DEBUG: Dialog OK
05:33:48 T:2687487904 M:851394560 DEBUG: -------------------
05:33:48 T:2687487904 M:851333120 DEBUG: PICTURE: loaded image and created texture. height: 64, width: 128
05:33:48 T:2687487904 M:851361792 DEBUG: Load /Applications/XBMC.app/Contents/Resources/XBMC/skin/PM3.HD/media/button-focus2.png: 4.8ms
05:33:48 T:2687487904 M:851300352 DEBUG: PICTURE: loaded image and created texture. height: 64, width: 128
05:33:48 T:2687487904 M:851329024 DEBUG: Load /Applications/XBMC.app/Contents/Resources/XBMC/skin/PM3.HD/media/button-nofocus.png: 4.0ms
05:33:48 T:2687487904 M:851329024 DEBUG: Alloc resources: 10.30ms (0.04 ms skin load, 0.60 ms preload)
05:33:48 T:2687487904 M:849227776 DEBUG: PICTURE: loaded image and created texture. height: 512, width: 512
05:33:48 T:2687487904 M:850280448 DEBUG: Load /Applications/XBMC.app/Contents/Resources/XBMC/skin/PM3.HD/media/DialogBack.png: 23.2ms
05:33:48 T:2687487904 M:847122432 DEBUG: PICTURE: loaded image and created texture. height: 512, width: 512
05:33:48 T:2687487904 M:848175104 DEBUG: Load /Applications/XBMC.app/Contents/Resources/XBMC/skin/PM3.HD/media/DialogFront.png: 24.2ms
05:33:48 T:2687487904 M:846925824 DEBUG: PICTURE: loaded image and created texture. height: 5, width: 770
05:33:48 T:2687487904 M:846925824 DEBUG: Load /Applications/XBMC.app/Contents/Resources/XBMC/skin/PM3.HD/media/separator.png: 4.1ms
05:33:51 T:2687487904 M:846802944 DEBUG: OnKey: 11 pressed, action is 7
05:33:51 T:2687487904 M:846811136 DEBUG: ------------------- GUI_MSG_WINDOW_DEINIT
05:33:51 T:2687487904 M:846811136 DEBUG: Dialog OK
05:33:51 T:2687487904 M:846811136 DEBUG: -------------------
05:33:51 T:2687487904 M:849055744 DEBUG: PICTURE: loaded image and created texture. height: 256, width: 256
05:33:51 T:2687487904 M:849354752 DEBUG: Load /Applications/XBMC.app/Contents/Resources/XBMC/skin/PM3.HD/media/defaultAudioBig.png: 16.0ms

the files are local and accessed through the music->itunes route.

the filename should be /Users/ew/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Compilations/Hanus G. Johansen/14 Vónsvikin.mp3

if you need the whole log file just let me know. i can mail it, or maybe you can point me to some site where i can upload it.

thanks

[d4rk]

if you need the whole log file just let me know. i can mail it, or maybe you can point me to some site where i can upload it.

Hi vip3000, we generally request that log files are posted on some site like pastebin.

Anyhow, since this seems to be iTunes related, it's possible that it's a plugin problem and not an XBMC issue.

Would you able to do the following test:

• Copy an mp3 that doesn't play due to special characters to your desktop.
  
• Start XBMC and go to Music->Desktop and try playing the file from there.
  
• Please report success or failure.
  
• Again, in case of failure, please post your log file.
  

Thanks.

[d4rk]

05:33:48 T:2687487904 M:850661376 INFO: MP3Codec: Loaded decoder at 0x1279e000
05:33:48 T:2687487904 M:850661376 WARNING: Unable to resolve: MACDll-osx.so _Z16c_GetAPEDurationPKc, reason: dlsym(0x134308d0, _Z16c_GetAPEDurationPKc): symbol not found
05:33:48 T:2687487904 M:850661376 ERROR: Unable to resolve exports from dll Q:\system\players\paplayer\MACDll-osx.so

Looking at your log file again, this section doesn't look good. Either way, please report success or failure for the above test. Thanks.

[jmarshall]

That has been like it for quite sometime I believe, and it won't affect playback in anyway - it just means ape tags won't be read.

Looks like the .so needs rebuilding perhaps?

[davilla]

That has been like it for quite sometime I believe, and it won't affect playback in anyway - it just means ape tags won't be read.

Looks like the .so needs rebuilding perhaps?

_c_GetAPEDuration exists in MACDll-osx.so but not _Z16c_GetAPEDurationPKc so who's calling this.

[vip3000]

playing the files on the desktop works fine. i also tried navigating to the itunes folder and they played just fine.

pastebin kept giving me errors when i tried to paste the whole file.

i pasted the beginning of the log. in the middle i made a few blank lines and then pasted the last part of the log file.

there are many thousands of lines missing but it is just the same error repeating countless times:
06:11:38 T:2687487904 M:750252032 ERROR: In file:/Users/d4rk/Code/XBMC/XBMC/guilib/GraphicContext.cpp function:EndPaint line:1367

check out my log at pastebin

[davilla]

That has been like it for quite sometime I believe, and it won't affect playback in anyway - it just means ape tags won't be read.

Looks like the .so needs rebuilding perhaps?

My bad -> http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/4537

Totally forgot to bring it in.