Best of both encoding worlds?

[polarz]

I wrote a front end to a command line mp4 music tagger that reads
my playlist files and gets info such as artist, title, album, etc,
etc. I use the info to catalog, tag, sort, etc, my files. I've run
into a small encoding problem. I started using a fopen like so.

fopen = new StreamReader(myPlaylist);

Everything worked well until I ran into groups like Mötley Crüe
with strange chars in the title. The default encoding above failed
to recognise the odd chars in "Mötley Crüe". I then went to

fopen = new StreamReader(myPlaylist,Encoding.UTF7);

This correctly picked up the odd chars in Mötley Crüe, and
everything else I thought until I noticed a file with a '+' in
the file name wasn't getting picked up now. My question is for
lack of a better one, is there anyway to use both encodings at
the same time? I did try every other encoding besides UTF7 and
also tried:

fopen = new StreamReader(myPlaylist,Encoding.UTF7,true);

I'm out of ideas here :/ Any advice is much appreciated.

Thank you

[Michael Giagnocavo [MVP]]

Well, you should find out what encoding your playlist file uses, and use the
same.

-mike
MVP

"polarz" <po****@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:Ru6Kb.745550$Tr4.2061678@attbi_s03...

I wrote a front end to a command line mp4 music tagger that reads
my playlist files and gets info such as artist, title, album, etc,
etc. I use the info to catalog, tag, sort, etc, my files. I've run
into a small encoding problem. I started using a fopen like so.

fopen = new StreamReader(myPlaylist);

Everything worked well until I ran into groups like Mötley Crüe
with strange chars in the title. The default encoding above failed
to recognise the odd chars in "Mötley Crüe". I then went to

fopen = new StreamReader(myPlaylist,Encoding.UTF7);

This correctly picked up the odd chars in Mötley Crüe, and
everything else I thought until I noticed a file with a '+' in
the file name wasn't getting picked up now. My question is for
lack of a better one, is there anyway to use both encodings at
the same time? I did try every other encoding besides UTF7 and
also tried:

fopen = new StreamReader(myPlaylist,Encoding.UTF7,true);

I'm out of ideas here :/ Any advice is much appreciated.

Thank you

[Jacob]

This may sound obvious (seeing as you said you tried every encoding
available), but have you tried Encoding.Default? Default encoding is ANSI
which includes the 7-Bit ASCII characters and then some.

Hope this helps,
Jacob
"polarz" <po****@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:Ru6Kb.745550$Tr4.2061678@attbi_s03...

I wrote a front end to a command line mp4 music tagger that reads
my playlist files and gets info such as artist, title, album, etc,
etc. I use the info to catalog, tag, sort, etc, my files. I've run
into a small encoding problem. I started using a fopen like so.

fopen = new StreamReader(myPlaylist);

Everything worked well until I ran into groups like Mötley Crüe
with strange chars in the title. The default encoding above failed
to recognise the odd chars in "Mötley Crüe". I then went to

fopen = new StreamReader(myPlaylist,Encoding.UTF7);

This correctly picked up the odd chars in Mötley Crüe, and
everything else I thought until I noticed a file with a '+' in
the file name wasn't getting picked up now. My question is for
lack of a better one, is there anyway to use both encodings at
the same time? I did try every other encoding besides UTF7 and
also tried:

fopen = new StreamReader(myPlaylist,Encoding.UTF7,true);

I'm out of ideas here :/ Any advice is much appreciated.

Thank you

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

polarz <po****@hotmail.com> wrote:

I wrote a front end to a command line mp4 music tagger that reads
my playlist files and gets info such as artist, title, album, etc,
etc. I use the info to catalog, tag, sort, etc, my files. I've run
into a small encoding problem. I started using a fopen like so.

fopen = new StreamReader(myPlaylist);

Everything worked well until I ran into groups like Mötley Crüe
with strange chars in the title. The default encoding above failed
to recognise the odd chars in "Mötley Crüe". I then went to

fopen = new StreamReader(myPlaylist,Encoding.UTF7);

This correctly picked up the odd chars in Mötley Crüe, and
everything else I thought until I noticed a file with a '+' in
the file name wasn't getting picked up now. My question is for
lack of a better one, is there anyway to use both encodings at
the same time? I did try every other encoding besides UTF7 and
also tried:

fopen = new StreamReader(myPlaylist,Encoding.UTF7,true);

I'm out of ideas here :/ Any advice is much appreciated.

It sounds like UTF7 just isn't the encoding used. It's very unlikely to
be the one used - I've very rarely actually come across applications
which use it. What's generating the playlist file, and do you have any
documentation about the format?

--
Jon Skeet - <sk***@pobox.com>
http://www.pobox.com/~skeet
If replying to the group, please do not mail me too

[polarz]

/me thwaps himself. Using Encoding.Default worked, I assumed by
leaving the fopen with no specific encoding it would use the
default encoding. Sorry for the dumb question and thanks for the
replys.

Jacob wrote:

This may sound obvious (seeing as you said you tried every encoding
available), but have you tried Encoding.Default? Default encoding is ANSI
which includes the 7-Bit ASCII characters and then some.

Hope this helps,
Jacob
"polarz" <po****@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:Ru6Kb.745550$Tr4.2061678@attbi_s03...

I wrote a front end to a command line mp4 music tagger that reads
my playlist files and gets info such as artist, title, album, etc,
etc. I use the info to catalog, tag, sort, etc, my files. I've run
into a small encoding problem. I started using a fopen like so.

fopen = new StreamReader(myPlaylist);

Everything worked well until I ran into groups like Mötley Crüe
with strange chars in the title. The default encoding above failed
to recognise the odd chars in "Mötley Crüe". I then went to

fopen = new StreamReader(myPlaylist,Encoding.UTF7);

This correctly picked up the odd chars in Mötley Crüe, and
everything else I thought until I noticed a file with a '+' in
the file name wasn't getting picked up now. My question is for
lack of a better one, is there anyway to use both encodings at
the same time? I did try every other encoding besides UTF7 and
also tried:

fopen = new StreamReader(myPlaylist,Encoding.UTF7,true);

I'm out of ideas here :/ Any advice is much appreciated.

Thank you

[polarz]

Thanks for the reply Mike. I had already tried that and got
System.Text.CodePageEncoding which can't be accessed due to
its protection level. I found an answer to my question in one
of the other responses. Thanks again.

Michael Giagnocavo [MVP] wrote:

Well, you should find out what encoding your playlist file uses, and use
the same.

-mike
MVP

"polarz" <po****@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:Ru6Kb.745550$Tr4.2061678@attbi_s03...

I wrote a front end to a command line mp4 music tagger that reads
my playlist files and gets info such as artist, title, album, etc,
etc. I use the info to catalog, tag, sort, etc, my files. I've run
into a small encoding problem. I started using a fopen like so.

fopen = new StreamReader(myPlaylist);

Everything worked well until I ran into groups like Mötley Crüe
with strange chars in the title. The default encoding above failed
to recognise the odd chars in "Mötley Crüe". I then went to

fopen = new StreamReader(myPlaylist,Encoding.UTF7);

This correctly picked up the odd chars in Mötley Crüe, and
everything else I thought until I noticed a file with a '+' in
the file name wasn't getting picked up now. My question is for
lack of a better one, is there anyway to use both encodings at
the same time? I did try every other encoding besides UTF7 and
also tried:

fopen = new StreamReader(myPlaylist,Encoding.UTF7,true);

I'm out of ideas here :/ Any advice is much appreciated.

Thank you

[Jacob]

No prob.

Jacob

"polarz" <po****@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:0djKb.758605$Fm2.705428@attbi_s04...

/me thwaps himself. Using Encoding.Default worked, I assumed by
leaving the fopen with no specific encoding it would use the
default encoding. Sorry for the dumb question and thanks for the
replys.

Jacob wrote:

This may sound obvious (seeing as you said you tried every encoding
available), but have you tried Encoding.Default? Default encoding is ANSI which includes the 7-Bit ASCII characters and then some.

Hope this helps,
Jacob
"polarz" <po****@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:Ru6Kb.745550$Tr4.2061678@attbi_s03...

I wrote a front end to a command line mp4 music tagger that reads
my playlist files and gets info such as artist, title, album, etc,
etc. I use the info to catalog, tag, sort, etc, my files. I've run
into a small encoding problem. I started using a fopen like so.

fopen = new StreamReader(myPlaylist);

Everything worked well until I ran into groups like Mötley Crüe
with strange chars in the title. The default encoding above failed
to recognise the odd chars in "Mötley Crüe". I then went to

fopen = new StreamReader(myPlaylist,Encoding.UTF7);

This correctly picked up the odd chars in Mötley Crüe, and
everything else I thought until I noticed a file with a '+' in
the file name wasn't getting picked up now. My question is for
lack of a better one, is there anyway to use both encodings at
the same time? I did try every other encoding besides UTF7 and
also tried:

fopen = new StreamReader(myPlaylist,Encoding.UTF7,true);

I'm out of ideas here :/ Any advice is much appreciated.

Thank you

[Michael Giagnocavo [MVP]]

What happens if the playlist has a song from ????

-Mike
MVP

"polarz" <po****@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:0djKb.758605$Fm2.705428@attbi_s04...

/me thwaps himself. Using Encoding.Default worked, I assumed by
leaving the fopen with no specific encoding it would use the
default encoding. Sorry for the dumb question and thanks for the
replys.

Jacob wrote:

This may sound obvious (seeing as you said you tried every encoding
available), but have you tried Encoding.Default? Default encoding is ANSI which includes the 7-Bit ASCII characters and then some.

Hope this helps,
Jacob
"polarz" <po****@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:Ru6Kb.745550$Tr4.2061678@attbi_s03...

I wrote a front end to a command line mp4 music tagger that reads
my playlist files and gets info such as artist, title, album, etc,
etc. I use the info to catalog, tag, sort, etc, my files. I've run
into a small encoding problem. I started using a fopen like so.

fopen = new StreamReader(myPlaylist);

Everything worked well until I ran into groups like Mötley Crüe
with strange chars in the title. The default encoding above failed
to recognise the odd chars in "Mötley Crüe". I then went to

fopen = new StreamReader(myPlaylist,Encoding.UTF7);

This correctly picked up the odd chars in Mötley Crüe, and
everything else I thought until I noticed a file with a '+' in
the file name wasn't getting picked up now. My question is for
lack of a better one, is there anyway to use both encodings at
the same time? I did try every other encoding besides UTF7 and
also tried:

fopen = new StreamReader(myPlaylist,Encoding.UTF7,true);

I'm out of ideas here :/ Any advice is much appreciated.

Thank you