Bug#361310: rhythmbox: tag encoding causes crash when importing

[Sven Arvidsson]

> Rhythmbox crashes when importing certain mp3 files.

> I have identified which mp3 files cause Rhythmbox to crash. They are
> playable in VLC. When i launch VLC from gnome-terminal to play 
> these files i see the following error message:

> (.:12489): Pango-WARNING **: Invalid UTF-8 string passed to
> pango_layout_set_text()

> Viewing their meta-info in VLC shows unrecognized characters. A
> screenshot is available at:
> http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c79/stoicjed/screenshots/vlc_meta.png

> I am able to import these files using Rhythmbox 0.9.1 on Ubuntu Breezy
> without any problems, with id3 tag information displaying 
> normally. I am able to import these files in Rhythmbox 0.9.3.1-1 on
> Debian Sid only after deleting the id3 tags, otherwise Rhythmbox 
> will crash.

Hi,

Can you try the 0.9.4.1 release of Rhythmbox and see if your problem
remains?

If it does try this pipeline and see if Gstreamer can read the tags:
 gst-launch-0.10 filesrc location=song.mp3 ! id3demux ! fakesink -t

It would also be helpful if you could attach the first few hundred
kilobytes of the song to the bug report. E. g. by doing 
 split -b 400k song.mp3

-- 
Cheers,
Sven Arvidsson
http://www.whiz.se
PGP Key ID 760BDD22
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