Songs with UTF-8 encoding don't show up correctly #150

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1. taurheim

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   bugSomething isn't workingSomething isn't working

   on Jan 27, 2024
2. timusus commented on Nov 16, 2025

   

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   I know I'm replying 1000 years later, but @taurheim which media provider are you using, the Android one, or the S2 one?
3. jibarofoss commented on Jan 28, 2026

   

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   @timusus this happens to me on the S2 provider, not sure about the Android one, I never use it.
4. rivaldi8 commented on Jan 31, 2026

   

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   @jibarofoss Could you double-check you really are using the S2 media provider? I've just tried and the title looks ok with it. However, when I switch to Android media provider, it looks mangled like in your screenshot.

   This is where you should check it, just to be sure:

   1. Open the application menu by tapping the hamburger icon at the bottom right of the screen.
   2. Tap on Settings. The Settings screen will open.
   3. Tap on Media (3rd entry). The Media screen will open.
   4. Tap on Media providers. The Media providers settings screen will open.

   Here, under Local section should only appear S2 Media Provider. If you have Android Media Store instead, you should replace it with the S2 one:

   
5. jibarofoss commented on Jan 31, 2026

   

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   Here is my media provider and multiple instances of the bug. It's supposed to be Ñengo Flow.
   
   
6. rivaldi8 commented on Feb 10, 2026

   

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   I've done several tests and I've only been able to reproduce the issue with the Android media provider. This is what I've tested:

   • Android media provider:
     • "Chanson d’un jour d’hiver": title looks mangled as reported.
     • "Chanson d’un jour d’hiver jàrl ñó" (exactly the same title as before but with the added text): curiously, it looks ok in this case.
     • "Que Malo (feat. Ñengo Flow)". Looks ok.
   • S2 media provider. The three versions look ok.

   I've tried this with both an emulator with Android 16 and my real phone (Pixel 4a) with Android 13. Just in case I've also tried changing the device language to Spanish, but not difference.

   In all cases I've built the application from the current main branch (a3a79c5), which corresponds to 1.0.10.

   I've also checked the code that scans the music files as well as the code that shows the song titles, and I haven't seen anything that might cause this issue. So, I can say I'm totally lost as to what might be happening here. Maybe @timusus, being more knowledgeable about the application and Android, has some idea.
7. timusus

   added a commit that references this issue on Sep 26, 2026

   fix(mediaprovider): take MediaStore songs' tags from the file

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   cd1c029
8. timusus

   closed this as completedin ae5d28bon Sep 26, 2026