It sounds like a Byte Order Mark. See if you can disable it.
That said, I’m not entirely sure that Sonos claims to support M3U8...
It sounds like a Byte Order Mark. See if you can disable it.
That said, I’m not entirely sure that Sonos claims to support M3U8...
Thanks for the info.. I’m not sure about M3U8 either but it looks like a number of my tracks have unusual characters in them - mainly based on non-English track titles.
I’ve had lots of issues around non standard characters, too (Gaelic). I’ve always attributed it, with zero justification, to the limitation of the Linux kernel that runs on the speakers, under the assumption that it doesn’t handle an extended character set. Am somewhat hoping that the next large number software release l13.0? I don’t expect that huge a change in a dot release, i.e any 12.x version...] would include a new kernel, which I hope includes updates to SMB v1 and an extended character set…
But I’m not an expert on all this, it’s merely guesses on my part. There are folks with much more technical knowledge than I on these forums.
I’ve had lots of issues around non standard characters, too (Gaelic). I’ve always attributed it, with zero justification, to the limitation of the Linux kernel that runs on the speakers, under the assumption that it doesn’t handle an extended character set.
I’d always assumed that Sonos handled extended character sets properly, as they’re coded for many languages and I’ve never noticed a problem with these exact same files playing under the Sonos software - doesn’t mean that there wasn’t one, though.
I’m not affected by new versions of the software, as I’m locked down at 10.4. However, simply chopping out the offending bytes appears to work on the couple of playlists that I’ve tried so far - and I wasn’t planning on using many of them, just enough to get some headroom on the main Sonos dataset.
At the end of the day, if I can’t get this to work properly it;s not the end of the world - the casting approach works fine on the full dataset, apart from (I suspect) a heavier drain on my phone batttery.
