On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 08:37:53AM +0200, Michael Ablassmeier wrote:
>>> When ripping http://jazzexcursion.com/listen64.m3u, the track
>>> "Caress" by "Marcel Khalifé" was ripped.  streamripper seemed to
>>> think that the artist was "Marcel Khalif" and the track was "".
>>> This suggests to me that it does not handle non-ASCII characters
>>> correctly, since other ASCII-only track metadata behaved as
>>> expected.
>>>
>>> Note that I am using UTF-8 but the streamer probably isn't,
>>> perhaps this is an encoding issue.
>>
>> Streamripper assumes that the metadata is encoded in the codeset of
>> the current locale.  If the metadata codeset does not match the
>> user's current locale, then this is achieved using command line
>> parameters.  For example:
>>
>> streamripper URL --codeset-metadata=ISO-8859-1
>
> could you confirm --codeset-metadata is working for you?

I'm still waiting for the server to send another track with non-ASCII
character(s).  It sounds like --codeset-metadata will fix things, so
feel free to close this bug; if I still have problems I'll reopen it.

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