Hi Nightfly, Tags are not a problem - the file/folder names are. I always make sure, that the tags are correct - but simplify the file names (Tag: P!nk, Folder: Pink). This can be done quite automatically through tools - I'm using "Bulk Rename Utility" which has a mode to remove "accents".
This way I'm able to avoid the mentioned problems for audio files. But I also store movies on the RPi server - and here I don't have tags; so the file names must be correct to allow the server proper identification. > Not knowing anything about samba, if I were just to transfer every album > with accent marks via USB, and only use samba for transferring > generic-ASCII tagged albums, would that solve the problem or not? Say you mount your USB HD to your windows pc as E: and copy all files - looking at E: you will find all names intact. Then you disconnect the HD from the PC and conect it to the pi. Then you mount the samba share of the pi as say V:. Looking at V: you will find the funny names if something is wrong. (Right now I don't remember how the names are shown, if you log into the Pi through putty). So, if you have a sync-script (I use RoboCopy) which syncs the master library to the pi it will work when the HD is again connected through USB, but you will get lots of duplication when it is synced against the share because the folders are not recognized. I don't know if you have something like a master library - maybe the Pi is your master. If you don't sync, you may not have a problem. If you fill through USB, each time you connect the HD to the PC everything will look fine. When you look through the share, names are trashed, but who cares? And I guess yes, you could sync ASCII named files without problems - but this would be a pretty boring manual task. I recommend to play around with little chunks of data first, until the access scenarios you have in mind work. If everything is fine, you can copy all the rest. Guenther ( = Günther without umlaut ;-) ) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cadfish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=58296 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98939
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