and builds structures of the track and playlist info.
When a user logs in, he sees a table of playlists and the info for the
tracks in the selected playlist:
Song Title Artist Duration
Much as it appears in iTunes
when the user selects a tune, the trackID is sent to the program.
The program retrieves the location of the track by accessing the track
structure:
Application.Tracks[URL.TID]["Location"]
This returns a URL to the file in the format:
file://localhost/Users/test/Music/iTunes/iTunes%20Music/
Simon%20&%20Garfunkle/Unknown%20Album/Mrs.%20Robinson.mp3
The program URLDecodes this into a file path:
/Users/test/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Simon & Garfunkle/Unknown
Album/Mrs. Robinson.mp3
Then the, program serves the file with:
<!--- Abort if we can't find the file --->
<cfif NOT FileExists((FilePath)) >
<cfabort>
</cfif>
<!--- this works for mp3 --->
<CFHEADER NAME="Content-Disposition"
VALUE="attachment; filename=song.mp3">
<cfcontent type = "audio/mp3"
file=#FilePath#
deleteFile = "No">
All this works fine except when there is an ampersand (&) in the
URL/file path. Then, CF can't find the file to serve:
Now, OS X allows ampersands in file names and directory names.
When a song is iMported/read/dropped into iTunes, iTunes builds a
directory structure based upon:
---Artist Name
------Album Name (or Unknown Album)
---------file name
in my example:
---Simon & Garfunkle
------Unknown Album
---------Mrs. Robinson.mp3
And CFFile can't handle the ampersand in the "Simon & Garfunkle"
directory.
The Mac Finder (File system GUI) has no problem with the ampersand.
But, the underlying FreeBSD Unix-based Darwin requires that the
ampersand (and spaces) be escaped.
/Users/test/Music/iTunes/iTunes\ Music/Simon\ &\ Garfunkle/Unknown\
Album/Mrs.\ Robinson.mp3
or the whole thing enclosed in quotes.
How do I get CFFile FileExists to handle a file path with an ampersand?
What characters should I look out for on windows-based iTunes?
TIA
Dick
"In times like these, it helps to recall that
there have always been times like these."
- Paul Harvey -
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