Old versions of dbPowerAMP always had the ability to replace illegal characters in file names with alternatives. I generally prefer to remove illegal characters (otherwise I end up with stupid upside down question marks and the like in file names), but I can't find the option to configure character replacement in V12. has it been removed, or am I just not looking hard enough?
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We automatically remove the illegal chars and replace with the nearest, so ? will become upside down ?. -
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Seconded.
I thought I remembered version 11.5 having this capability, but it could have been a Linux-based music ripper I am thinking of. Whichever, it had a table of substitution characters, with things like ¿ being default replacement for ? -but if you wanted to just remove it or propose some other substitution character, you could do so easily enough.
Right now, I have file names like:
11 - Alas! Where was I¿ Dead¿.wma ....and
22 - What¿ Do you know me then¿.wma
...which might be OK if you're Spanish, but doesn't look good to me!
A wishlist item, I guess...Comment
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Re: Character Replacement
Originally posted by WaynedMC 11.5 definitely has this featureComment
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I'll say it before someone else does -though remember I'm on your side and want this feature back in dMC!
MP3tag will strip anything out of tags and filenames, so long as you are a dab hand at regular expressions (which I'm not, and why I want this as an editable table in dMC!).Comment
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We will endeavour to make this option re-appear for R13.Comment
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Originally posted by SpoonWe will endeavour to make this option re-appear for R13.
I'll just have to spend an hour or so working on a little program to recursively search my music directories and rename anything with the special characters in them.
Just for the record, any chance you can post a list of the special characters that dbPowerAmp replaces so that I know what I need to search for and 'correct'?Comment
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wchar_t DefaultReplace[] = { '"', '\'',
'>', 187, // '»'
'<', 171, // '«'
'?', 191, // '¿'
':', ';',
'\\', '-',
'/', '-',
'*', '-',
'|', '-',
'\0', '\0'}; // NULL TERMComment
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Re: Character Replacement
Originally posted by SpoonWe will endeavour to make this option re-appear for R13.
Alternatively and for my purposes actually the best option would be to allow creating ascii file names only. I have the problem with the currently (12.3) generated filenames that I can't backup to DVD because of the there illegal characters. They have also proven to cause problems with Linux file systems.
An additional question in this context, since I have already created more than 4000 files, is there a utility other than MP3tag which (recursively) converts file and directory names to ascii?Comment
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