Text characters with accents

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1

I'm having a problem importing tags.
The destination file contains accents in its name, for example:
The Beyoncé Experience Live
I get an error message in Mp3Tag that the file cannot be read.
If I change the 'é' to 'e', there's no problem and Mp3Tag reads the file.
Has anyone come across this? Is this a Windows issue?
Grateful for a solution.

Win 11 64bit w latest updates
MP3Tag v 3.25

2

I don't get such an error message
So please show us the steps you undertake to import tags, preferably with screenshots.
Also, a consistency check may be worthwhile.
grafik

The TITLE got imported with Convert>Filename-Tag
Format string: %title%

3

Could you please copy your original filename and paste it here into the input box:

For your above filename it would output something like

image
image482×747 46.4 KB

What do you get for your original filename and the special character?

Your file (mp3? FLAC?) is stored on your internal Windows 11 SSD, not on a external HDD or an external NAS?

4

Please update to the newest Mp3tag version v3.30.

5

Thanks for your prompt response.

  1. Mp3Tag updated to v3.30
  2. Here's an original file name containing 'é':
    Unicode Character
    Unicode Character969×392 105 KB
  3. Flac file is stored on the cloud.
  4. Import of file is done via text file.
  5. Steps:
    a. File is loaded from the cloud thru right-click, Mp3Tag from context menu.
    b. Alt+c+X to import text
    c. Error message that file cannot be read.
  6. Steps work beautifully for files with non-accented characters. (Must stress here that for the majority of files >90%, there's no problem whatsoever. It's just that, I have to manually substitute the characters with their unaccented equivalents).
6

Sorry, No. 4 should read:
4. Import of tags is done via text file

7

Could you please copy & paste the exact same filename from inside your text file into bablestone?
Does it show the identical
COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT {stress mark; Greek oxia, tonos}
for the character in Véronique
(or other the other special characters in années and américaines)?

It's crucial that the filenames inside your text file are 100% identical (not only visually) to your real FLAC filenames in your cloud.

8

Just as a note:
You can fix your text at any time after you published it.
Just click on the pencil icon image under your text.

9

This is what it reads from the text file:
U+00E9 : LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE

10

If the special character in your text file is not identical with the special character in the filename itself, the file can not be found.

How did you create the text file content?

11

I see where the problem lies I think, but here goes:

  1. The CD in question was ripped using EAC many many years ago and file names were automatically populated from its online database. (They visually conformed to the track titles on the CD).
  2. The text files come from a modern music cataloguing software that has the functionality of exporting its data to text in a customised way which makes it very easy for me to import as tags using Mp3Tag.
  3. Evidently there is a conflict in the characters used between 1 and 2
    This means that I probably have to manually edit file names before importing tags for the proportion of folders and files containing such accents unless of course you can suggest a workaround...

Many thanks to you and to Ohrenkino for coming to my assistance. Always appreciated.

12

I would also suggest this.
As U+00E9 : LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE is the correct value for the french é I would adjust the filenames with the strange COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT {stress mark; Greek oxia, tonos}.

One possible solution:
If your tag fields already contains the correct LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE then you could rebuild the filename with the content of your fields.
If your tag fields also contains the complicated - similar looking - COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT {stress mark; Greek oxia, tonos} you would have to replace this characters first in your tag fields and then rebuild the filename.

13

Thing is, I import a whole lot of tags per track at a time.
I'll rename the files externally using bulk renaming with just the track numbers after which I can import the tags and convert tags to filename.
Will let you know the outcome.

14

Please create a backup of your data first.
And don't forget that this way you have to bulk rename your files AND to adjust all entries in your text file to the new file names. Ensure that the track number (after the full path?) is unique enough to still recognize the matching line in your text file.

15

Thanks for the advice.
As a precaution, I always rename per album disc to make assurance doubly sure.
Nevertheless, I will copy the disc in question to a temporary folder and try it.
As for the path, I will isolate all such EAC-created folders containing accents and diacriticals and edit them suitably.