Vorbis - Oct 2001 - OT: WinNT(2000) player to open files with unicode names?

Sorry for posting somewhat off-topic...

Most my music files have names in hebrew (FAT32 partition).  I dual-boot
between a hebrew win98 (where these files are opened nicely by winamp,
freeamp and any other program) and a hebrew win2000, where windows media
player is the only program I've seen so far to open them.  All others say
"can't open file ???? ?? ???.ogg" (or .mp3) - both when given the
file
name on a command line or and when selected from the player's open dialog.
I also wasn't able to create a playlist externally and have WMP play it
(what encoding does it expect the file names to be?).  WMP has no playlist
editor - says it all ;). Does anybody know of a normal player that can
open files with non-standard names?  Or other workarounds?


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                 (also scben@t2 in Technion)

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Hello Beni,

14. oktober 2001, 14:52:57, you wrote:

BC> Most my music files have names in hebrew (FAT32 partition).  I dual-boot
BC> between a hebrew win98 (where these files are opened nicely by winamp,
BC> freeamp and any other program) and a hebrew win2000, where windows media
BC> player is the only program I've seen so far to open them.  All others
say
BC> "can't open file ???? ?? ???.ogg" (or .mp3) - both when
given the file
BC> name on a command line or and when selected from the player's open
dialog.
BC> I also wasn't able to create a playlist externally and have WMP play
it
BC> (what encoding does it expect the file names to be?).  WMP has no
playlist
BC> editor - says it all ;). Does anybody know of a normal player that can
BC> open files with non-standard names?  Or other workarounds?

I think that this is more operating system limitation, than program
limitation. I remember once I had to get a lot of files from floppies,
which were written in Russian version of Windows (with Cyrillic
names). Windows displayed all filenames as ______.___, and couldn't
open any of them (tried with several programs, and under DOS). The
only way to open them was to let ScanDisk "fix" the floppy, which
changed filenames to garbage, but they at least could be read... This
however won't not work for you...


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This is a well-known limitation of Winamp and will be hopefully fixed in
final Winamp3. It might help to change some Win2k international settings
(but I've never tried that). See Winamp bug reports forum for more info -
http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=60931
-Peter
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From: "Beni Cherniavksy" <cben@techunix.technion.ac.il>
To: <vorbis@xiph.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2001 14:52
Subject: [vorbis] OT: WinNT(2000) player to open files with unicode names?
> Sorry for posting somewhat off-topic...
>
> Most my music files have names in hebrew (FAT32 partition).  I dual-boot
> between a hebrew win98 (where these files are opened nicely by winamp,
> freeamp and any other program) and a hebrew win2000, where windows media
> player is the only program I've seen so far to open them.  All others
say
> "can't open file ???? ?? ???.ogg" (or .mp3) - both when given
the file
> name on a command line or and when selected from the player's open
dialog.
> I also wasn't able to create a playlist externally and have WMP play it
> (what encoding does it expect the file names to be?).  WMP has no playlist
> editor - says it all ;). Does anybody know of a normal player that can
> open files with non-standard names?  Or other workarounds?
>
> --
> Beni Cherniavsky <cben@tx.technion.ac.il>
>                  (also scben@t2 in Technion)
>
>
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