Reply To: Error in iTunes XML Parsing

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PGutbrod
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@rpedde wrote:

@PGutbrod wrote:

b) Firefly on the Linux box accessing p.s. You can probably manually iconv the itunes music library.xml from utf-8 to latin1 as a quick workaround.

Tried this but didn’t work.

The XML seems to be UTF8 encoded (at least it tells this in the header) but I do not know, what the the encoding of the mp3 is on the Linux filesystem.

A file named
äöüÄÖÜ
is displayed in octal codes on the linux box as:
ls -b
äöü?204?226?234

but on the mounted share on the Mac as:
ls -b
a314210o314210u314210A314210O314210U314210

IMHO octal 204, 226 and 234 don’t seem to correspond to any encoding table!?!

So without knowing to which encoding I should convert the XML, it is unlikely that it will work 🙁

Peter