Disq: I will try to simplify the present status.

My /home/user/.kagu directory presently contains three .m3u files:

-- "pop.m3u" which is my intact backup playlist file;

-- "playlist.m3u.fixed" file which is the one resulting from running your converter (./utf2ascii.py < playlist.m3u > playlist.m3u.fixed) and whose content matches the titles in"pop.m3u;" and

-- "playlist.m3u" which, no matter what content is in it at the start of a scan, always seems to end up emptied after the scan.

I have run scans both immediately after running your conversion, and then after copying "playlist.m3u.fixed" into "playlist.m3u." Nothing after my various scans gives me any saved playlists which turn up in Kagu, and, as I noted, "playlist.m3u" always turns up empty after a scan.

I am confused as to what a scan's action is supposed to be relevant to the "playlist.m3u" file, and what it is doing to that file to empty it out. And also, what effect the so-called "fixed" playlist.m3u file has, or is intended to have, on the whole process.

If I were to boot up Kagu and construct a new playlist (of all 92 titles), would Kagu now save the playlist, and retrieve it again when needed? And would this problem finally be behind us? (Incidentally, I don't fully understand what the instruction to "hold thumb on the Now Playing button" means that I should do in order to save a playlist. I know -- I'm dense!)

Again, many thanks -- for your efforts and probably now-dwindling patience. Jim