Hi all …
A client has a themed album (song titles feature ‘.’ between every word). The last track title ends in ‘…’.
This seems to be illegal in a Windoze system? I certainly can’t name a montage with that as it auto deletes the characters.
I cannot recall coming across this before. Is there a workaround? Or will I just suggest they add the period marks on upload to aggregator/label.
Thoughts?
Paul
I know there are these illegal characters in Windows. These are off the net.
< (less than)
(greater than)
: (colon - sometimes works, but is actually NTFS Alternate Data Streams)
" (double quote)
/ (forward slash)
\ (backslash)
| (vertical bar or pipe)
? (question mark)
I did not see the single quote listed but maybe PG will chime in.
I have had two problems with non ASCII characters. One was someone who used something he downloaded off the net that ASCII sets did not recognize as a legal character and the other was someone who wanted to use some Zodiac and Egyptian symbols in his song titles. In neither case could I do what the client wanted.
Best of luck!
But is the problem actually with the FILE name or with the song title in CD-text? The characters Thomas lists are indeed illegal in Windows file names, but a single quote mark or triple dots are no problem. (and file names can end in a space or a dot)
Or are we talking about the issue with inputting spaces while creating clip/song titles?
Yes. These troublesome characters can often be included in the CD-Text and/or ID3 metadata, it is the actual file names where it can be a problem.
I often replace troublesome characters with an underscore or dash in the file name.
CD-Text is more restrictive than metadata for illegal characters but that has been covered before.
Thanks all …
The actual song title is like A.B.C…
I’ll follow the guidance given above.
Paul