[Solved] Last.fm Agent character encoding issue?

Hi there Plexians!

I’ve recently successfully installed Plex Media Server on my Raspberry Pi 2. Now I’m importing my music, but I’ve run into an issue.

In my artist overview, I do not see Rammstein listed. When I search my Plex for Rammstein, I do get the artist with the correct albums listed there. However, no metadata was fetched for the artist.

When I try to do a manual match, the search for Rammstein (or rammstein, or Rammst+, etc) returns “No matches found.”

According to the lastfm log, when fetching the JSON for the artist, there was an error fetching the results (“Error fetching JSON. // Error retrieving artist search results.”).

However, when I copy the request uri and access it from my web browser, I do see a correct JSON file.

I do notice some Cyrillic and non-standard characters in the results.

Is it possible that this has something to do with error? Is there some way to circumvent this?

This is solved!

Turns out, my problem had nothing to do with either Plex or Last.fm.

I screwed up my DNS settings while setting a static IP earlier. Just bad coincidence. My bad. #:-S