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(very) small problem with displaying a name - beedaddy - 2017-03-03 Thanks to the help of DaveBlake and others, my classical music is now both well-tagged and well-processed by kodi. But there is one small (and unimportant) problem, which I nevertheless am unable to ignore. I have the composer "Camille Saint-Saëns". But the hyphen is not correctly displayed. The hyphen is shown as a box. But this is not a sophisticated Unicode-Symbol, it's just a hyphen. Here is a screenshot: So, why is this? Am I doing (tagging) something wrong? Here are the tags of one of the files: Code: Encoded with libopus 1.1.4 RE: (very) small problem with displaying a name - DaveBlake - 2017-03-03 I have this artist in my library too, no problem with the hyphen (or the accents come to that). Check the ALBUMARTISTS tag, it looks different to me, some other kind of dash maybe? RE: (very) small problem with displaying a name - Uatschitchun - 2017-03-03 I strangely have the same issue with some artists, too... One is: http://musicbrainz.org/release/5513b36b-afe8-4523-89b9-f13a0c1778eb?tport=8000 RE: (very) small problem with displaying a name - helta - 2017-03-03 What font are you using? RE: (very) small problem with displaying a name - DaveBlake - 2017-03-03 OK, tagging some fake files using Picard with a song from both albums I am getting some odd character issues. It is the ALBUMARTISTS tag: viewed in both Picard and Mp3tag the dash looks the same as in the other tags, but it isn't. The other tags have char 0x2d, while ALBUMARTISTS tag has 0xe2 0x80 0x90 Picard has set this oddly, or maybe it is the script, all I can suggest is that you manually edit the ALBUMARTISTS tag using "-". I tested that and it works. RE: (very) small problem with displaying a name - docwra - 2017-03-03 Yeh Musicbrainz is well known for using silly hyphen and apostrophe characters sometimes. RE: (very) small problem with displaying a name - Hallucyn8 - 2017-03-04 I don't know if this is related to the issue or not but I've been playing around with some of the settings in Picard and it may be worth checking the setting called "Convert Unicode punctuation characters to ASCII" under Options>Metadata, I guess it does what it says on the tin but in layman's terms standardises some of the odd punctuation symbols that seem to be in the MusicBrainz DB. RE: (very) small problem with displaying a name - Uatschitchun - 2017-03-05 Nice find. Here's a complete list of substitutions: http://github.com/metabrainz/picard/blob/cb9b6294e2502b637c93a93a54d96f46570f2407/picard/util/textencoding.py#L107 If unchecking "Convert Unicode punctuation characters to ASCII" in Picard and reloading the blink-182 album results in changes to the tags. As with a checked setting in Picard we get false characters in Kodi, not converting Unicode to ASCII is the way to go? RE: (very) small problem with displaying a name - Hallucyn8 - 2017-03-05 I'm generally finding I'm getting better results by having the option checked but to be fair I haven't specifically seen the issue originally reported. I'm guessing it may also depend on the regional/character settings in Kodi although this is just speculation on my part. RE: (very) small problem with displaying a name - Uatschitchun - 2017-03-05 Changing the setting in Picard doen't change what kodi displays (after update & clean of db) RE: (very) small problem with displaying a name - beedaddy - 2017-03-05 Thanks for the discussion. I also think that the cause is Picard. I corrected the tags with kid3, but I had to change it in the sqlite database, too. RE: (very) small problem with displaying a name - DaveBlake - 2017-03-05 Yeap, it is funny data from Picard. I can see why the funny value would stay in Kodi even after you edited the tag. A rescan would say here is an artist with mbid XXX, oh yes I have that artist already, and the name not get changed. The way to avoid the hands on edit of db would be either drop the source and start again (painful scraping), or move all the music involving that artist, clean up, then scan with that music back in place. I would just edit the db directly too. |