Foreign character in Album or track name

[wigwam]

I have installed Asset UPnP Premium, used iTunes Export Playlist to create .m3u versions of my Playlists and all appeared to be working well playing through an Onkyo TX-NR609 amp on DLNA. Then I came across tracks from an album named Jazz Café (note the é). These did not play and the message "Cannot Play" was displayed. After experimenting with some classical albums I noticed that whenever an accented character appeared in the track name, these also did not play. How do I overcome this shortcoming? I can change the name of the folder or the track in Windows to remove the accent, but then the playlist still contains the accented character and the result is the same, expect iTunes doesn't work either then.

[Spoon]

Re: Foreign character in Album or track name

You would have to save as .m3u8 a UTF-8 encoded text file.

[wigwam]

Re: Foreign character in Album or track name

Thanks Spoon. I hadn't come across .m3u8. Just read in a thread to create .m3u files from iTunes playlists and didn't think of them not being UTF-8.