Songs with an apostrophe

[mightyoakbob]

Hello,

I would like to ask a question about searching my library from a control point app on an iPad and searching to a song name that contains an apostrophe. Basically for me at least, this doesn't work on either of the Linn control points or the Lumin one.

I have probably wrongly gone for simple text in my file and song names and an apostrophe is ascii code 39 or hex27 everywhere.

Can I fix this or am I stuck with it?

Thanks for your help.


Cheers,

Bob.

[simoncn]

It is likely that the song you are searching for contains the "wrong kind" of apostrophe (Unicode rather than ASCII). if you look closely, you should be able to see a slight difference in the shape.

ASCII hex 27: '
Unicode right single quotation mark (U+2019): ’
Unicode left single quotation mark (U+2018): ‘

There might be others.

[mightyoakbob]

(30-04-2020 19:50)simoncn Wrote:  It is likely that the song you are searching for contains the "wrong kind" of apostrophe (Unicode rather than ASCII). if you look closely, you should be able to see a slight difference in the shape.

ASCII hex 27: '
Unicode right single quotation mark (U+2019): ’
Unicode left single quotation mark (U+2018): ‘

There might be others.

Hi,
Thanks for the quick reply.
I have been very careful building the library and I'm certain that the apostrophies are simple ascii codes both as the file name and the tag.

I think the problem is that the control point apps are searching for unicode versions but I'm not an expert.

Cheers,

Bob.

[simoncn]

You are exactly correct, at least for Kazoo running on an iPad. It searches for U+2019 instead of 0x27.

[simoncn]

There is a fix for this described in this thread. I have tried it and it works.

[mightyoakbob]

(01-05-2020 07:16)simoncn Wrote:  There is a fix for this described in this thread. I have tried it and it works.

Thank you so much. That does seem to fix my problem.

Brilliant.

Bob.

[mightyoakbob]

Now I seem to have a problem. When I search my library for a track it works fine now and finds the track but puts an error in the Minimserver log file:
MinimServer[RED] is running
MinimServer: 0$=Description$47873 isn't a valid object
MinimServer: 0$=Description$47873 isn't a valid object
MinimServer: incorrect format for object ID '"I don't want to"'

[simoncn]

Did these log messages appear when you did the search or did they appear after you had done a MinimServer rescan? If they appeared after a rescan, the first message is a known issue with Kazoo. I haven't seen the second message before.

[mightyoakbob]

(01-05-2020 16:59)simoncn Wrote:  Did these log messages appear when you did the search or did they appear after you had done a MinimServer rescan? If they appeared after a rescan, the first message is a known issue with Kazoo. I haven't seen the second message before.

I've just tried this again and got this in the log just after doing the search not after doing a rescan.

MinimServer: incorrect format for object ID '"I don't want to talk"'

I didn't realise this could be caused by the control point app, I prefer Lumin to either of the Linn apps. Yes, it has flaws like it can't pick up another player without restarting the app but I love the layout. Could it be this is a Lumin issue?

Cheers,

Bob.

[stefano_mbp]

(01-05-2020 19:11)mightyoakbob Wrote:  

(01-05-2020 16:59)simoncn Wrote:  Did these log messages appear when you did the search or did they appear after you had done a MinimServer rescan? If they appeared after a rescan, the first message is a known issue with Kazoo. I haven't seen the second message before.

I've just tried this again and got this in the log just after doing the search not after doing a rescan.

MinimServer: incorrect format for object ID '"I don't want to talk"'

I didn't realise this could be caused by the control point app, I prefer Lumin to either of the Linn apps. Yes, it has flaws like it can't pick up another player without restarting the app but I love the layout. Could it be this is a Lumin issue?

Cheers,

Bob.

I use Lumin app and I have three renderers, I have all them available in the app .... I’m using Bubbleupnpserver to be able to find them as openhome players.
I’ve just tried a search for a name with apostrophe, an Album Artist, and Lumin cannot find it but no errors or warnings are shown in the log.