aubuti;623199 Wrote: > 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.
I hear you... and I understand where you're coming from. Do you have many playlists? One thing I forgot to mention, related to renaming my folders and files has to do with "existing" playlists. My family and I have been using this FLAC music library and several of its subsets for a very long time. Over the years my wife, my sister, my nephew and I have created a bunch of playlists that are dependent on the "existing" folder and filename naming scheme. We've grown attached to some of these playlist that have been created using a variety of players and music managers like SBS, MediaMonkey for PCs, Rio Music Manager for the Karma, JetAudio for my Cowon player and recently WinAmp for my Android phone. Each of these existing playlists had their own set of idiosyncrasies that have been already addressed. Renaming files might open a big can of worms that I don't want to deal with. -- tamanaco ------------------------------------------------------------------------ tamanaco's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4620 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86355 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
