The punchline first: Suddenly, all of my tracks whose song titles
contain an apostrophe have lost their TrackStat rating.

The details:

Sometime after upgrading to SC 7.0 or 7.1 (sorry, not sure which), I
noticed that a large number of my tracks lost their TrackStat rating. I
have been accumulating ratings for a couple of years now. Not an extreme
sized database: 925 albums with 16602 songs by 2656 artists.

For the past few weeks, I have been trying to find some pattern to the
disappearing ratings. Some albums lost ratings for just one track.
Others lost several tracks, others were not affected at all. 

I checked the TrackStat backup xml file, and the tracks are there, with
the rating.

I tried restoring from backup. Tried removing all TrackStat data and
restoring from backup.  Upgraded all of Erland's plugins to the latest.


Finally found the pattern in the song titles -- only those with
apostrophes lost their rating.

A couple of examples: 

On Tom Wait's Swordfishtrombones, only these songs lost their ratings:

Soldier's Things 
Frank's Wild Year
Trouble's Braids

Los Angeles by X, only these lost their ratings:

Your Phone's Off The Hook, But You're Not
The World's A Mess, It's In My Kiss

In both cases, I can verify that the stats are present in the TrackStat
backup xml file.

I've seen mention in the forums that some handling of special
characters in the SC database has changed in either SCv7.0 or 7.1, but
I have not heard of anyone having trouble with apostrophes.

Anyone else seeing this?  Any suggestions on how to fix this?

Currently running SC7.1 on WinXP, TrackStat 2.3. Most CD ripping done
with iTunes under XP or OS X. Some AAC, some mp3. Same thing happens
with downloaded flacs tagged by other people.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Thx.

Greg


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