Juce_string.cpp assertion failure while trying to create an AudioFormatReader

General JUCE discussion
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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));
    return String (CharPointer_UTF8 (buffer), CharPointer_UTF8 (buffer + bufferSizeBytes));
else
    return String (buffer, bufferSizeBytes); // constructs from raw ascii

But I am not sure if it’s the right thing to do…