diff --git a/airtime_mvc/application/logging/Logging.php b/airtime_mvc/application/logging/Logging.php
index 096dbd717..01ec88240 100644
--- a/airtime_mvc/application/logging/Logging.php
+++ b/airtime_mvc/application/logging/Logging.php
@@ -16,4 +16,9 @@ class Logging {
     public static function setLogPath($path){
         self::$_path = $path;
     }
+    
+    public static function log($p_msg){
+        $logger = self::getLogger();
+        $logger->info($p_msg);
+    }
 }
diff --git a/python_apps/media-monitor/airtimefilemonitor/airtimemetadata.py b/python_apps/media-monitor/airtimefilemonitor/airtimemetadata.py
index 1b37b359f..a57e44507 100644
--- a/python_apps/media-monitor/airtimefilemonitor/airtimemetadata.py
+++ b/python_apps/media-monitor/airtimefilemonitor/airtimemetadata.py
@@ -49,6 +49,36 @@ class AirtimeMetadata:
         "isrc": "MDATA_KEY_ISRC",\
         "copyright": "MDATA_KEY_COPYRIGHT",\
         }
+        
+        self.cp1252toUnicode = {
+        u"\x80": u"\u20AC", # EURO SIGN
+        u"\x82": u"\u201A", # SINGLE LOW-9 QUOTATION MARK
+        u"\x83": u"\u0192", # LATIN SMALL LETTER F WITH HOOK
+        u"\x84": u"\u201E", # DOUBLE LOW-9 QUOTATION MARK
+        u"\x85": u"\u2026", # HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS
+        u"\x86": u"\u2020", # DAGGER
+        u"\x87": u"\u2021", # DOUBLE DAGGER
+        u"\x88": u"\u02C6", # MODIFIER LETTER CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT
+        u"\x89": u"\u2030", # PER MILLE SIGN
+        u"\x8A": u"\u0160", # LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH CARON
+        u"\x8B": u"\u2039", # SINGLE LEFT-POINTING ANGLE QUOTATION MARK
+        u"\x8C": u"\u0152", # LATIN CAPITAL LIGATURE OE
+        u"\x8E": u"\u017D", # LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z WITH CARON
+        u"\x91": u"\u2018", # LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK
+        u"\x92": u"\u2019", # RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK
+        u"\x93": u"\u201C", # LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK
+        u"\x94": u"\u201D", # RIGHT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK
+        u"\x95": u"\u2022", # BULLET
+        u"\x96": u"\u2013", # EN DASH
+        u"\x97": u"\u2014", # EM DASH
+        u"\x98": u"\u02DC", # SMALL TILDE
+        u"\x99": u"\u2122", # TRADE MARK SIGN
+        u"\x9A": u"\u0161", # LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH CARON
+        u"\x9B": u"\u203A", # SINGLE RIGHT-POINTING ANGLE QUOTATION MARK
+        u"\x9C": u"\u0153", # LATIN SMALL LIGATURE OE
+        u"\x9E": u"\u017E", # LATIN SMALL LETTER Z WITH CARON
+        u"\x9F": u"\u0178", # LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y WITH DIAERESIS
+        }
 
         self.logger = logging.getLogger()
 
@@ -131,7 +161,8 @@ class AirtimeMetadata:
             self.logger.error("Exception %s", e)
             return None
 
-
+        
+        self.logger.info("sDFSDFSDF")
         self.logger.info(file_info)
         if file_info is None:
             return None
@@ -139,8 +170,16 @@ class AirtimeMetadata:
         if file_info is not None:
             for key in file_info.keys() :
                 if key in self.mutagen2airtime :
-                    md[self.mutagen2airtime[key]] = file_info[key][0]
-
+                    info = file_info[key][0]
+                    while 1:
+                        temp = re.search(u"[\x80-\x9f]", info)
+                        if temp is not None:
+                            s = temp.group(0)
+                            replace = self.cp1252toUnicode.get(s)
+                            info = re.sub(s, replace, info)
+                        else:
+                            break
+                    md[self.mutagen2airtime[key]] = info
         if 'MDATA_KEY_TITLE' not in md:
             #get rid of file extention from original name, name might have more than 1 '.' in it.
             #filepath = to_unicode(filepath)