diff --git a/airtime_mvc/application/common/OsPath.php b/airtime_mvc/application/common/OsPath.php
index 47161301d..957545dc4 100644
--- a/airtime_mvc/application/common/OsPath.php
+++ b/airtime_mvc/application/common/OsPath.php
@@ -42,4 +42,25 @@ class Application_Common_OsPath{
         else
             return '.';
     }
+    
+    /* Similar to the os.path.join python method
+     * http://stackoverflow.com/a/1782990/276949 */
+    function join() {
+        $args = func_get_args();
+        $paths = array();
+
+        foreach($args as $arg) {
+            $paths = array_merge($paths, (array)$arg);
+        }
+
+        foreach($paths as &$path) {
+            $path = trim($path, DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR);
+        }
+
+        if (substr($args[0], 0, 1) == DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR) {
+            $paths[0] = DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . $paths[0];
+        }
+
+        return join(DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR, $paths);
+    }
 }
diff --git a/airtime_mvc/application/models/ShowBuilder.php b/airtime_mvc/application/models/ShowBuilder.php
index 25ff01933..7ca926e15 100644
--- a/airtime_mvc/application/models/ShowBuilder.php
+++ b/airtime_mvc/application/models/ShowBuilder.php
@@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ class Application_Model_ShowBuilder {
             $this->getScheduledStatus($startsEpoch, min($endsEpoch, $showEndEpoch), $row);
 
             $row["id"] = intval($p_item["sched_id"]);
-            $row["image"] = $p_item["file_exists"] == "t" ? true : false;
+            $row["image"] = $p_item["file_exists"];
             $row["instance"] = intval($p_item["si_id"]);
             $row["starts"] = $schedStartDT->format("H:i:s");
             $row["ends"] = $schedEndDT->format("H:i:s");
diff --git a/airtime_mvc/application/models/StoredFile.php b/airtime_mvc/application/models/StoredFile.php
index 06e788095..fcac1a8db 100644
--- a/airtime_mvc/application/models/StoredFile.php
+++ b/airtime_mvc/application/models/StoredFile.php
@@ -841,8 +841,7 @@ Logging::log("getting media! - 2");
             //check to see if there is enough space in $stor to continue.
             $enough_space = Application_Model_StoredFile::checkForEnoughDiskSpaceToCopy($stor, $audio_file);
             if ($enough_space){
-                $stor .= "/organize";
-                $audio_stor = $stor . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . $fileName;
+                $audio_stor = Application_Common_OsPath::join($stor, "organize", $fileName);
 
                 Logging::log("copyFileToStor: moving file $audio_file to $audio_stor");
                 //Martin K.: changed to rename: Much less load + quicker since this is an atomic operation
diff --git a/python_apps/media-monitor/MediaMonitor.py b/python_apps/media-monitor/MediaMonitor.py
index 3fa9fe912..bcf9a0a3b 100644
--- a/python_apps/media-monitor/MediaMonitor.py
+++ b/python_apps/media-monitor/MediaMonitor.py
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import sys
 import os
 import signal
 import traceback
+import locale
 
 from api_clients import api_client as apc
 from std_err_override import LogWriter
@@ -38,7 +39,16 @@ except Exception, e:
 
 logger.info("\n\n*** Media Monitor bootup ***\n\n")
 
+
 try:
+    fs_encoding = locale.getdefaultlocale()[1].lower()
+    if fs_encoding not in ['utf-8', 'utf8']:
+        logger.error("Filesystem encoding needs to be UTF-8. Currently '%s'. Exiting..." % fs_encoding)
+        sys.exit(1)
+    else:
+        logger.debug("Filesystem encoding: '%s'" % fs_encoding)
+
+    
     config = AirtimeMediaConfig(logger)
     api_client = apc.api_client_factory(config.cfg)
     api_client.register_component("media-monitor")