Problems with Artist and Song titles, strange characters

Arie1 · January 28, 2020, 2:03pm

Hello,

We have with a lot of song titles a problem with strange characters…

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We see this in our test stream with Shoutcast…
I think a problem with the UTF code, but how to resolve this problem?

Torben · January 28, 2020, 2:30pm

Assuming you are using the built-in encoder, there is a setting in the connection options about the charset to be used for metadata updates.

Arie1 · January 28, 2020, 2:54pm

I have these settings already found.
We have the problem, with the automatic, UTF-8 and Latin 1 setting…

Torben · January 30, 2020, 11:01am

What’s the Shoutcast version being used?

Arie1 · January 30, 2020, 11:13am

I’m using Shoutcast 2.6.0.753

Arie1 · January 30, 2020, 10:01pm

This track Title shows also the problem: Ich Hab’ Geträumt Von Dir

Arie1 · January 31, 2020, 5:31pm

If a track with a strange character is played, then shoutcast will do strange things and display the characters as in the first post. I have no idea how I can solve that, but it is very disturbing

Torben · February 3, 2020, 8:14am

We will try to reproduce the issue with the specific Shoutcast version you mentioned.

Arie1 · February 10, 2020, 7:47am

This code in the Shoutcast log:

2020-02-10 08:45:33	DEBUG	[METRICS sid=1] push to YP requested “Primal Scream - I’m Gonna Cry Myself Blind”
2020-02-10 08:45:33	INFO	[SRC IP.AA.DD.RR:59289 sid=1] Title update [Primal Scream - I’m Gonna Cry Myself Blind]
2020-02-10 08:45:33	DEBUG	[METRICS sid=1] push to YP requested “Primal Scream - I’m Gonna Cry Myself Blind”
2020-02-10 08:45:34	DEBUG	[METRICS sid=2] push to YP requested “Primal Scream - I’m Gonna Cry Myself Blind”
2020-02-10 08:45:34	INFO	[SRC IP.AA.DD.RR:59299 sid=2] Title update [Primal Scream - I’m Gonna Cry Myself Blind]
2020-02-10 08:45:34	DEBUG	[METRICS sid=2] push to YP requested “Primal Scream - I’m Gonna Cry Myself Blind”
2020-02-10 08:45:34	WARN	[YP sid=1] response returned 500, NOK
2020-02-10 08:45:34	DEBUG	[METRICS sid=1] push to YP requested “New Order - Blue Monday”
2020-02-10 08:45:34	INFO	[SRC IP.AA.DD.RR:59289 sid=1] Title update [New Order - Blue Monday]
2020-02-10 08:45:34	DEBUG	[METRICS sid=1] push to YP requested “New Order - Blue Monday”
2020-02-10 08:45:35	DEBUG	[METRICS sid=2] push to YP requested “New Order - Blue Monday”
2020-02-10 08:45:35	INFO	[SRC IP.AA.DD.RR:59299 sid=2] Title update [New Order - Blue Monday]
2020-02-10 08:45:35	DEBUG	[METRICS sid=2] push to YP requested “New Order - Blue Monday”
2020-02-10 08:45:35	DEBUG	[METRICS sid=1] push to YP requested “P. P. Arnold - Angel of the Morning”
2020-02-10 08:45:35	INFO	[SRC IP.AA.DD.RR:59289 sid=1] Title update [P. P. Arnold - Angel of the Morning]
2020-02-10 08:45:35	DEBUG	[METRICS sid=1] push to YP requested “P. P. Arnold - Angel of the Morning”
2020-02-10 08:45:35	DEBUG	[METRICS sid=2] push to YP requested “P. P. Arnold - Angel of the Morning”
2020-02-10 08:45:35	INFO	[SRC IP.AA.DD.RR:59299 sid=2] Title update [P. P. Arnold - Angel of the Morning]
2020-02-10 08:45:35	DEBUG	[METRICS sid=2] push to YP requested “P. P. Arnold - Angel of the Morning”
2020-02-10 08:45:35	DEBUG	[METRICS sid=1] push to YP requested “Yolanda Be Cool - Dance and Chant”
2020-02-10 08:45:35	INFO	[SRC IP.AA.DD.RR:59289 sid=1] Title update [Yolanda Be Cool - Dance and Chant]
2020-02-10 08:45:35	DEBUG	[METRICS sid=1] push to YP requested “Yolanda Be Cool - Dance and Chant”
2020-02-10 08:45:36	DEBUG	[METRICS sid=2] push to YP requested “Yolanda Be Cool - Dance and Chant”
2020-02-10 08:45:36	INFO	[SRC IP.AA.DD.RR:59299 sid=2] Title update [Yolanda Be Cool - Dance and Chant]
2020-02-10 08:45:36	DEBUG	[METRICS sid=2] push to YP requested “Yolanda Be Cool - Dance and Chant”
2020-02-10 08:45:36	WARN	[YP sid=1] response returned 500, NOK
2020-02-10 08:45:38	WARN	[YP sid=2] response returned 500, NOK
2020-02-10 08:45:40	DEBUG	[METRICS sid=2] push to YP requested “System Of A Down - Hypnotize”
2020-02-10 08:45:40	INFO	[SRC IP.AA.DD.RR:59299 sid=2] Title update [System Of A Down - Hypnotize]
2020-02-10 08:45:40	DEBUG	[METRICS sid=2] push to YP requested “System Of A Down - Hypnotize”

Arie1 · February 10, 2020, 7:49am

A lot of different titels at shoutcast, this information is from Mairlist?

Torben · February 10, 2020, 7:04pm

Don’t you think it would make sense to test with a few songs that do have special characters in their title?

Arie1 · February 17, 2020, 4:28pm

No… Because of the problem, shoutcast starts doing weird things.
It seems to be in the Mairlist encoder because if we use a separate decoder the problem will not show itself.

Arie1 · March 5, 2020, 6:05pm

What could be the problem that we get a Title update in shoutcast every 15 seconds?