As stated in AVRCP 1.6.2 chapter 6.10.2.3 Media element item, for the Displayable Name Length property, the target device may truncate the item name: Length of Displayable Name in octets. The name shall be limited such that a response to a GetFolderItems containing one media player item fits within the maximum size of PDU which can be received by the CT. This truncatation may occur in the middle of a multi-byte character, at least with Samsung Music app, which triggers a DBus assertion and crashes bluetoothd: profiles/audio/player.c:media_folder_create_item() Din Dhal Jaye Haye with lyrics | "दिन ढल जाए हाय" गाने के बो� type audio uid 1 profiles/audio/player.c:media_folder_create_item() /org/bluez/hci0/dev_24_24_B7_11_82_6C/player0/NowPlaying/item1 profiles/audio/player.c:media_player_set_metadata() Title: Din Dhal Jaye Haye with lyrics | "दिन ढल जाए हाय" गाने के बोल | Guide | Dev Anand, Waheeda Rehman … arguments to dbus_message_iter_append_basic() were incorrect, assertion "_dbus_check_is_valid_utf8 (*string_p)" failed in file dbus-message.c line 2775. This is normally a bug in some application using the D-Bus library. --- profiles/audio/avrcp.c | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) diff --git a/profiles/audio/avrcp.c b/profiles/audio/avrcp.c index 831f1dc8b..65b40c57f 100644 --- a/profiles/audio/avrcp.c +++ b/profiles/audio/avrcp.c @@ -2598,6 +2598,19 @@ static struct media_item *parse_media_element(struct avrcp *session, if (namelen > 0) memcpy(name, &operands[13], namelen); + /* Truncate name to the last valid UTF-8 character */ + while (!g_utf8_validate(name, namelen, NULL)) { + char *end = g_utf8_find_prev_char(name, name + namelen); + + if (end == NULL) { + name[0] = '\0'; + break; + } + + namelen = end - name; + name[namelen] = '\0'; + } + count = operands[13 + namesize]; player = session->controller->player; -- 2.43.0