tamanaco;623178 Wrote: > I use the "correct" unicode tags to create the corresponding correctly > named folders and filenames structures automatically. No issues with > question marks, colons or slashes as these are removed during the > tagging process. What you suggest requires that I also change the tags > in my main FLAC libarary and its subsets. As I said, I use the tags to > "correctly" and "automatically" create my filesystem folders and > filenames during the ripping and transcoding processes. No, I'm not suggesting that you do anything whatsoever to your tags. I am suggesting that you consider one additional step to your current process (which would be applied retroactively to existing rips).
1) rip and transcode your CDs exactly as you're doing now, using the correctly accented characters in the tags. Let dBpoweramp write the accented characters to the filenames and/or directory names. 2) use mp3tag to batch rename only the filenames and foldernames to un-accented Latin characters. For existing rips, only (2) applies. Done correctly -- which isn't hard -- it doesn't change the tags at all. Btw, my reference to question marks, colons, and so forth was not because I don't understand you're talking about acutes, graves, circumflexes, and umlauts. I was merely trying to point out that in many cases it is impossible to have a file or folder name render the title of a track or album perfectly. It's a compromise imposed by the filesystems. And you are already making that deviation from the "correct" naming of your files and folders. What I am proposing is a compromise imposed by a bug in MiP or the SBS plugin. Ideally one wouldn't have to make such compromises, and I agree any bug should be fixed. But in the meantime there is a simple workaround available, and it is easy to revert to accented file and folder names once the bug is fixed. (Admittedly, I'm not aware of any such workaround for Chinese, Korean, Burmese, etc. -- at least not a simple one.) I am also a purist about correct tags, including accents. And I'd like to have the file names and folder names correct. But given the current choice between having correctly accented folder/file names and being able to generate MiP mixes, the latter wins every time for me. YMMV. -- aubuti ------------------------------------------------------------------------ aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86355 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
