media Player does not handle '/' in ID3 artist name correctly
asked 2014-06-15 00:39:45 +0200
It seems that the media player app has trouble with artist names containing a '/', e.g.' incite/'. Though the artist name is listed (however omitting / in my example), its corresponding albums don't show up.
Update 16.06.2014 01:24
I tried to verify that '/'-behaviour of the media player app with some AC/DC albums. Interestingly, AC/DC shows up correct in the arists listing and even the corresponding albums are files under that artist. So, I played a bit with the ID3 tags of the initial artists albums changing the name from 'incite/' to e.g. 'incit/e', just to see if the positioning of the '/' has any impact on the behaviour of the media player. In fact it has: changing the name in the ID3 tag to 'incit/e' resulted in the media player artist listing into something like 'incit;e'. See the '/' being replaced by a ';'. Although, the corresponding albums are not either. I even changed the ID3 artist name into 'ac/dc' (note: lower case letters) and 'ab/cd' which resulted in the absolutely same behaviour: '/' becomes ';' and no albums shown. My question at this point is: why is 'AC/DC' being handled correctly and not 'ac/dc or 'ab/cd''?
However, deleting my test files and copying the original files now finally messed up the media player at all - the app now lists one of the incite/ albums under AC/DC which is definitely wrong, and the other incite/ album is still not shown. Is there a way to re-initialise indexing of the imported tracks?
This is really weird. Maybe I should rather listen to Black Sabbath then :-D
Same problem with Bomfunk MC's in an .ogg file. Here the ' is the culprit.
Bomfunk MC's appear fine in the artist list, but opening the album menu screen from here shows an empty album list. it is however possible to pull down and show all songs to open the artist's song list where everything is showed correctly.
I suggest this is a bug triggered by special characters in artitst's names, possibly caused by characters not being escaped properly when displayed in the albums menu and causing weird results and maybe potentially security problems if an exploit can be constructed.
vaurien ( 2014-07-06 01:20:18 +0200 )edit