Dustin
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Posted: May 29 2006,04:57 |
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Ok, I'll give you a for-instance.
Let's say there's a song titled "Are You In?" with that question mark there. Now, the question mark is just fine for iTunes or Winamp or any other program reading ID3 tags. But, naturally, such a character is not allowed in Windows file names. Your software would currently name the file like this:
"Are You In-.mp3"
Problem is, I find that '-' in the file name particularly ugly. I attempted to use the casefixer to tell the program to change '?' to '' (basically eliminating it all together) when renaming a file, but it would also apply that to the ID3 tag, which I didn't want. My options then were to manually browse through my collection and strip out those '-' characters, or use the casefixer to strip them out and them manually append '?' to the file names. Either way, it is very tedious and time consuming.
Imho, a better way would be to let the user have control over the way illegal characters are replaced in file names. E.g. if instead of a '-' I wanted to use a '¿' (which is ironically perfectly fine to use in a filename).
Does that clarify the issue for you at all?
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