On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 2:40 PM, Thomas Lübking <thomas.luebk...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Montag, 2. März 2015 17:19:50 CEST, Brian Blater wrote: > >> I'm running up against this bug where I export a playlist to .m3u and I >> get >> characters inserted for spaces etc like %20. >> >> I've searched and some say it isn't a bug, but is a locale issue on the >> machine. However, my locale is set to en_US.UTF-8. >> > > It's not *necessarily/ a bug and it's not related to your locale. > m3u is "Mp3-Url" and can contain urls or relative paths. > > If the entry is a URL, there must not be spaces, but encondings. There > *may* also other "unsafe" characters be encoded. > > If the encoding shows up in a relative path, it's debatable and might be > claimed a bug. > It doesn't matter what I export it as (m3u, pls, xspf) it still contains the inserted characters. My point being that this used to work and didn't insert the characters before I upgraded to 14.04. > > If it's in a url (like file:///foo/bar/stuff%20with%20spaces.mp3) it's > simply the "other" player(s) which is broken in its url handling. > There's really not much to discuss there. > > I assume one could as for a feature to not encode urls (despite that's > actually wrongdoing) > > > I want to go through thousands of files doing a search and replace to make >> it work. >> > > You're on windows, are you? Nobody strips html entities by hand ;-) > You can use sed, awk, perl or a specialised tool "urldecode" to do this > automatically (where the last is the most simple to use.) Had I been on Windows I would have expected this kind of behavior - having to take your file through who knows how many iterations to strip characters. But this is linux and it was working correctly before. Yes, I can send the file through a python script (or whatever works for you) that will convert the garbage to what it should be. The point is, I shouldn't have to do this to get a playlist from Amarok, that works in the player of my choice at the moment (in this case Audacious.) Brian
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