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no space char should not be the problem, I'm talking about chars like ° ç é ñ
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I only have spaces and brackets in the folder and title names.
Example:
smb://hd/The Social Network (2010)/The Social Network (2010) - 1080p.mkv
The problem is elsewhere ^^
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Hello- I have been using XBMC Remote on an ipad mini, as the dedicated controller for XBMC running on a G-Box Midnight. Frodo RC1 installed. Overall it works very well.
I have noticed in the "artists" view on XBMC Remote that some artists will not link to the actual albums. For example, I have 20 or so ACDC albums, all very cleanly ripped / tagged, and when I browse "AC DC" by selecting it in the artist list it shows "nothing found". Some other artists do this as well. I cannot find a common theme why some show their related albums but others say "nothing found".
If I browse Artist in XBMC directly on a dispaly monitor, everything is there- e.g. all AC DC albums show up when selecting AC DC as the artist.
I have tried clearing cache on the XBMC Remote, updating library, changed artist and album artist tags on the AC DC albums from "AC/DC" to "AC DC", etc. Nothing works with getting the XBMC Remote to link some artists to their albums. Any ideas?
I even had one instance when a artist showed "nothing found", I clicked on it again and it showed the album. I clicked it a third time and it went back to "nothing found" and I could not get it to come back.
BTW I can play them with XBMC Remote by going to the Album category - they all show up fine there- or going to Genre, works too.
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Which of these does XBMC Remote and XBMC support / prefer for tagging?
ID3v2.4 UTF-8
newest revision of the ID3v2 standard. Tags are written in Unicode as UTF-8 encoded string.
ID3v2.3 UTF-16
if enabled, Mp3tag writes ID3v2.3 tags in Unicode encoded as UTF-16 LE.
ID3v2.3 ISO-8859-1
if enabled, Mp3tag doesn't use Unicode when writing ID3v2 tags. This is useful if you are using software or devices (like some car radios) which can't read tags stored in Unicode format.
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Joe thanks for the reply- I may be able ot help narrow it down. I just finished re-tagging my entire library last week. I used mp3tag and musicbrainz on everything. I noticed that by default, both mp3tag and musicbrainz are using ID3v1.1 and v2.3 (ID3v1,ID3v2.3) as the default tag write method (writes both types of tags). Tags are actually UTF-16 for ID3v2.3. I went into mp3tag, opened one of the problem albums, stripped tags off and re-added as ID3v2.4 (which uses UTF-8) only. Then updated library in XBMC. Album now shows in XBMC Remote when clicking Artist. Is this helpful?
Odd that XBMC would return a bad string to the remote, when inside itself it displays everything just fine.
I would also like to make a few (humble) feature requests.
1. Would it be possible to have option to hide everything from the left nav except music? We only use the remote for music playback, and the XBMC box runs headless with no display turned on, so having music as the only sole option would be very nice and free up more left column space for viewing playlist. This could maybe be an option in ios "Settings" area for XBMC Remote - similar to XBMC where you can hide these same tabs.
2. Also would like to be able to "hide" the XBMC Remote from left column, and only have it accessible under the power button menu- For my use case, this remote is used by the family only for music playback, with the ipad being the only library interface, and I don't want them poking around on the Remote because there is no reason to do so.
3. Would also like to request that the bottom controls bar is made larger or at least scales larger for use on ipad. It's really hard to poke the small controls especially if your ipad has a case on it.
Love the remote so my suggestions are only in light of helping to make it better as a dedicated media controller.
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Hi everyone, I'm in the process of setting up XBMC on my HTPC. I am thankful to have found this app for my remote control dilema. I plan on using MPC-HC as the external player, is it possible to get this app to work with MPC-HC? Sorry if this topic has already been asked (I did a quick search and did not come up with anything). Thanks in advance.
