Files with Bad Metadata Asserting Audio File Reader

[daniel]

Just added an answer in the other thread where you asked:

Juce_string.cpp assertion failure while trying to create an AudioFormatReader

The good news is it’s just an assertion. In a release build you just get a string in the metadata with invalid characters. Whatever happens subsequently depends on the calling code. Unfortunately I think there is no easy fix. You can turn the jassert (CharPointer_UTF8::isValidString (buffer, bufferSizeBytes)); into an if to catch it, but there is no way to know the actual encoding if it’s not UTF8. Something like this could work: if (CharPointer_UTF8::isValidString (buffer, bufferSizeBytes)…