*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 230906 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/230906
As a hint to others who stumble across this bug: this same problem comes
up on CIFS shares. The work around there is to mount the share with the
"mapchars,iocharset=utf8" options.
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/318625
Title:
Rhythmbox shouldn't set illegal / special characters on filenames
(i.e. "?"; question mark) when ripping to NTFS volumes
Status in “rhythmbox” package in Ubuntu:
Incomplete
Bug description:
Whenever a song name has a special character like a "question mark"
(?) in it (for example, "Where is my Mind?" or "Are You In?"),
Rhythmbox rips the song to the drive and names the file with the
special character, for example:
"Where is my Mind?.mp3" or "Are You In?.mp3"
On NTFS volumes (and probably FAT32 and lower) these characters (such
as "?"; question mark) are illegal and make the file inaccessible and
useless within Windows because it doesn't recognise or read files with
illegal characters. It becomes impossible the deletion, renaming or
reading of the file within Windows systems.
TEST CASE:
[1] - Rip a song from a CD using Rhythmbox that has a special
character in its name like a "?" question mark (Where is my Mind?) and
make sure it rips to an NTFS volume.
[2] - Exit Linux, go into a Windows system and try and play, delete or
rename the file that has the special character in it. You'll find that
you get an error message about the usage of illegal characters anytime
you try and delete or rename the file and the file will not be
playable by programmes within Windows that are designed to read it,
such as Windows Media Player, Winamp or VLC etc.
[3] - Conclusion: When illegal characters are set on files by
Rhythmbox (or Linux in general) on NTFS volumes, those files become
completely inaccessible within Windows. You have to to return to Linux
to delete, rename or read / play the files.
Maybe this is an issue for the NTFS-3g driver, it should prevent the
incorrect naming of files that go onto NTFS volumes.
There should probably be an option within Rhythmbox to strip special
characters from the filename (not necessarily the tag, as there they
are compatible) or replace them with something compatible.
This above proposal is similar to bug # 264283.
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