diff --git a/python_apps/media-monitor/airtimefilemonitor/airtimemetadata.py b/python_apps/media-monitor/airtimefilemonitor/airtimemetadata.py
index dd9b481af..ad5047380 100644
--- a/python_apps/media-monitor/airtimefilemonitor/airtimemetadata.py
+++ b/python_apps/media-monitor/airtimefilemonitor/airtimemetadata.py
@@ -49,36 +49,6 @@ 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()
 
@@ -164,21 +134,11 @@ class AirtimeMetadata:
         #check if file has any metadata
         if file_info is None:
             return None
-
-        for key in file_info.keys() :
-            if key in self.mutagen2airtime and len(file_info[key]) > 0:
-                info = file_info[key][0]
-                while True:
-                    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
-                    
-                    
+        #check if file has any metadata
+        if file_info is not None:
+            for key in file_info.keys() :
+                if key in self.mutagen2airtime and len(file_info[key]) > 0:
+                    md[self.mutagen2airtime[key]] = file_info[key][0]
         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)