Problem solved, I had messed up import

[Titus Müller]

You also have a very long title, in my music collection, EMMS cut all titles 
short to exactly 30 characters until this afternoon (as well in the tag editor, 
shown as info-title, as well as in the playlists), and Umlaut ä was shown as 
Slash 344, Umlaut ö as Slash 366, Umlaut ü as Slash 374.

I tried a little and read again in your very good EMMS manual. Then I found the 
reason. I thought it must have to do with data import, so I double-checked that 
and found out I was missing the line 

(require 'emms-info-mp3info)

Also, I changed my line 

(setq emms-info-functions '(emms-info-native emms-info-mp3info))

to what you have in the manual

(add-to-list 'emms-info-functions 'emms-info-mp3info)

To see wether the files are imported better now, I needed to empty the 
database. And I couldn't find a command to do so (emms-cache-reset did 
something else), so I went into the emms-directory and deleted the file with a 
strange name. Now the database was gone, and I could import the music files 
anew, and there they are: all Umlaut letters correct, the titles long and not 
cut anymore.

So my "bugs" where just caused by stupidity on my side, I think.

I'm embarrassed. I'm very sorry I stole your time.


----- Ursprüngliche Nachricht vom 18.12.2023 -----
> Titus Müller <mail@titusmueller.de> writes:
>
>> (2) Since I am German, some MP3s have Umlaut-Letters in their
>> title. "Nun ruhen alle Wälder" is shown in the playlist and the
>> browser with a slash followed by the number 344 instead of the ä Laut,
>> and in the tag editor it is correct in the name-field, but broken
>> (344) in the info-title field.
>
> I have a lot of similar tracks. For example, the following displays
> correctly for me in the playlist, tag editor, and browser:
>
>     Johann Sebastian Bach - Cantata, BWV 211 "Schweigt stille, plaudert
>     nicht": V. Rezitativo (Schlendrian, Liesgen): "Wenn du mir nicht den
>     Coffee läßt" - Secular Cantatas, BWV 211 & 212: Schweigt stille,
>     plaudert nicht (Kaffee-Kantate) / Mehr hahn en neue Oberkeet
>     (Bauernkantate)
>
> There may be something else going on outside of Emms here.