Track and album names displayed with replacement character. How to resolve?

[Yukster]

(21-01-2024 21:23)simbun Wrote:  

(21-01-2024 19:37)Yukster Wrote:  I am running Minimserver on my NAS and when I use BubbleUPnP to stream music from my NAS it displays the ganre, track, and album names with replacement characters, see attachment. The tracks' order is back to front.

Could you copy one of these tracks to a temporary location and run the following from the command prompt:

Code:

fsutil file seteof <filename> 2048
certutil -encodehex <filename> hex.txt

The first line truncates the file so it can be handled by certutil and the second writes out exactly what's in your tags to a file called hex.txt e.g.

Code:

01e0    32 32 18 00 00 00 10 00  00 00 41 4c 42 55 4d 3d   22........ALBUM=
01f0    48 75 6e 6b 79 20 44 6f  72 79 17 00 00 00 41 4c   Hunky Dory....AL
0200    42 55 4d 41 52 54 49 53  54 3d 44 61 76 69 64 20   BUMARTIST=David
0210    42 6f 77 69 65 1c 00 00  00 41 4c 42 55 4d 41 52   Bowie....ALBUMAR
0220    54 49 53 54 53 4f 52 54  3d 42 6f 77 69 65 2c 20   TISTSORT=Bowie,
0230    44 61 76 69 64 0b 00 00  00 41 4c 42 55 4d 54 59   David....ALBUMTY
0240    50 45 3d 31 16 00 00 00  41 4c 42 55 4d 55 4e 49   PE=1....ALBUMUNI
0250    51 49 44 3d 33 31 38 35  32 39 31 31 33 35 12 00   QID=3185291135..
0260    00 00 41 52 54 49 53 54  3d 44 61 76 69 64 20 42   ..ARTIST=David B
0270    6f 77 69 65 17 00 00 00  41 52 54 49 53 54 53 4f   owie....ARTISTSO
0280    52 54 3d 42 6f 77 69 65  2c 20 44 61 76 69 64 15   RT=Bowie, David.
0290    00 00 00 42 41 52 43 4f  44 45 3d 30 30 33 35 36   ...BARCODE=00356
02a0    32 38 34 36 32 33 32 39  15 00 00 00 43 41 54 41   28462329....CATA
02b0    4c 4f 47 4e 55 4d 42 45  52 3d 50 44 38 34 36 32   LOGNUMBER=PD8462
02c0    33 14 00 00 00 44 41 54  45 41 44 44 45 44 3d 32   3....DATEADDED=2
02d0    30 32 32 2d 30 37 2d 31  33 0d 00 00 00 44 49 53   022-07-13....DIS
02e0    43 4e 55 4d 42 45 52 3d  30 31 0e 00 00 00 47 45   CNUMBER=01....GE
02f0    4e 52 45 3d 50 6f 70 20  52 6f 63 6b 09 00 00 00   NRE=Pop Rock....
0300    4c 41 42 45 4c 3d 52 43  41 11 00 00 00 4f 52 49   LABEL=RCA....ORI
0310    47 49 4e 41 4c 44 41 54  45 3d 31 39 37 31 0d 00   GINALDATE=1971..
0320    00 00 54 49 54 4c 45 3d  43 68 61 6e 67 65 73 0c   ..TITLE=Changes.
0330    00 00 00 44 49 53 43 54  4f 54 41 4c 3d 30 31 1e   ...DISCTOTAL=01.
0340    00 00 00 72 65 70 6c 61  79 67 61 69 6e 5f 61 6c   ...replaygain_al
0350    62 75 6d 5f 67 61 69 6e  3d 2d 30 2e 39 31 20 64   bum_gain=-0.91 d
0360    42 1e 00 00 00 72 65 70  6c 61 79 67 61 69 6e 5f   B....replaygain_
0370    61 6c 62 75 6d 5f 70 65  61 6b 3d 30 2e 39 38 31   album_peak=0.981
0380    35 35 36 1e 00 00 00 72  65 70 6c 61 79 67 61 69   556....replaygai
0390    6e 5f 74 72 61 63 6b 5f  67 61 69 6e 3d 2d 31 2e   n_track_gain=-1.
03a0    35 31 20 64 42 1e 00 00  00 72 65 70 6c 61 79 67   51 dB....replayg
03b0    61 69 6e 5f 74 72 61 63  6b 5f 70 65 61 6b 3d 30   ain_track_peak=0
03c0    2e 37 35 37 32 35 35 24  00 00 00 41 4c 4c 4d 55   .757255$...ALLMU
03d0    53 49 43 5f 52 45 4c 45  41 53 45 47 52 4f 55 50   SIC_RELEASEGROUP
03e0    49 44 3d 6d 77 30 30 30  30 31 38 39 35 30 39 23   ID=mw0000189509#
03f0    00 00 00 41 4c 4c 4d 55  53 49 43 5f 41 4c 42 55   ...ALLMUSIC_ALBU
0400    4d 41 52 54 49 53 54 49  44 3d 6d 6e 30 30 30 30   MARTISTID=mn0000
0410    35 33 31 39 38 36 09 00  00 00 44 41 54 45 3d 31   531986....DATE=1
0420    39 38 34 0e 00 00 00 54  52 41 43 4b 4e 55 4d 42   984....TRACKNUMB
0430    45 52 3d 30 31 ff f8 c9  18 00 c2 00 00 00 00 00   ER=01...........

Could you include the contents of hex.txt in your reply (only the bits containing tags are necessary).

I'm assuming it's something like a carriage return. Did these tags come from HDTracks?

The order should be based on the tracknumber tag.

I tried this but I don't think it worked for me. It didn't create a hex.txt file. See below two commands I ran:

c:\temp>fsutil file seteof 01 - Koln, January 24, 1975, Part I.flac 2048
Usage: fsutil file setEOF <filename> <length>
Eg: fsutil file setEOF C:\testfile.txt 1000

c:\temp>certutil -encodehex 01 - Koln, January 24, 1975, Part I.flac hex.txt
Expected no more than 3 args, received 9
CertUtil: Too many arguments

Usage:
CertUtil [Options] -encodehex InFile OutFile [type]
Encode file in hexadecimal

Options:
-f -- Force overwrite
-Unicode -- Write redirected output in Unicode
-UnicodeText -- Write output file in Unicode
-gmt -- Display times as GMT
-seconds -- Display times with seconds and milliseconds
-v -- Verbose operation
-privatekey -- Display password and private key data
-pin PIN -- Smart Card PIN
-sid WELL_KNOWN_SID_TYPE -- Numeric SID
22 -- Local System
23 -- Local Service
24 -- Network Service

CertUtil -? -- Display a verb list (command list)
CertUtil -encodehex -? -- Display help text for the "encodehex" verb
CertUtil -v -? -- Display all help text for all verbs