[gentoo-user] Audacious annoyance (special chars)

[gentoo-user] Audacious annoyance (special chars)

[darren kirby]

Hi All,

I've just noticed that my audacious will not play songs with special 
characters in the filename (ie: acute and grave accents, umlauts, cedillas 
etc) no matter how I try. Needless to say, this is very annoying as I have a 
lot of 'world music' that uses such characters.

Can audacious be coerced into playing these songs? I should perhaps note that 
konqueror and even konsole display the characters just fine. The problem 
appears to be solely with audacious. 

Version is 1.5.1-r1, USE flags are: 'chardet nls session sse2'

Thanks in advance

-d
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darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org
"...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..."
- Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972

Re: [gentoo-user] Audacious annoyance (special chars)

[Dave Jones]

darren kirby wrote on 04/12/08 23:32:
> I've just noticed that my audacious will not play songs with special 
> characters in the filename (ie: acute and grave accents, umlauts, cedillas 
> etc) no matter how I try. Needless to say, this is very annoying as I have a 
> lot of 'world music' that uses such characters.
> 
> Version is 1.5.1-r1, USE flags are: 'chardet nls session sse2'

The same audacious version played Jethro Tull Bourée and Animalée tracks
 fine here.   My USE flags are 'nls session sse2'

Cheers, Dave

Re: [gentoo-user] Audacious annoyance (special chars)

[darren kirby]

quoth the Dave Jones:
> darren kirby wrote on 04/12/08 23:32:
> > I've just noticed that my audacious will not play songs with special
> > characters in the filename (ie: acute and grave accents, umlauts,
> > cedillas etc) no matter how I try. Needless to say, this is very annoying
> > as I have a lot of 'world music' that uses such characters.
> >
> > Version is 1.5.1-r1, USE flags are: 'chardet nls session sse2'
>
> The same audacious version played Jethro Tull Bourée and Animalée tracks
>  fine here.   My USE flags are 'nls session sse2'
>
> Cheers, Dave

OK, well, I rebuilt audacious with USE -chardet and now it plays these songs 
fine, however, it has created a new (worse!) annoyance, in that when I select 
a new song to play whilst one is already playing it spawns another audacious 
and plays the two songs simultaneously....

yersh......

-d
-- 
darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org
"...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..."
- Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972