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aliciaviola:
Yes, that works. The problem is not that that I generate the special character with MC but that MC doesn't read correctly files on my Mac.
At the moment there are 253320 audio files (5,8 TB). Many with special characters.
The attached screenshots should show what I mean. The files are from a recorded broadcast and edited and divided in tracks with WaveLab Pro 10.
You can see how they look on the Mac and in MC.

aliciaviola:
Two more:
1) Normally I name files and folders with _ between the words, for instance: Stravinsky_Persephone_Dixon_Wunderlich_Schade_HR1960.
MC doesn't read the _. It appears as Stravinsky Persephone Dixon Wunderlich Schade HR1960.
2) On the Mac (Better Touch Tool) there is a very simple and extremely useful way of making folders or programs fill the screen or that they take up exactly half or a quarter of the screen: you move the mouse over the top bar of a folder or program and moves the folder or program all the way up (full screen), left center (left half), right center (right half), or in the corners (a quarter of the screen).
This works with all folders and programs, just not with MC.

And do you have any idea why typing in the search field while something is playing creates an extremely hight use of CPU (over 100% percent) and lets the music "stutter"

HaWi:

--- Quote from: aliciaviola on October 01, 2020, 02:54:36 am ---Yes, that works. The problem is not that that I generate the special character with MC but that MC doesn't read correctly files on my Mac.
At the moment there are 253320 audio files (5,8 TB). Many with special characters.
The attached screenshots should show what I mean. The files are from a recorded broadcast and edited and divided in tracks with WaveLab Pro 10.
You can see how they look on the Mac and in MC.

--- End quote ---
Indeed, I see the same thing when I import from some (not all) sources. They do play until one tries to "F6" or update tags etc. Then it breaks for me. I have manually changed all of mine but I only have 20K files. What I did was this:
1) Made a text file from imported special characters
2) Made a text file with manually added special characters
3) Made expressions like this for each special character: =Replace([Name],ä,ä), where the first special character was from the source, the second from the manual file
4) Highlighted ALL tracks in the library, copied the expression into the name tag and execute with <Enter>
5) Did that for all special characters, one after the other.

I did trials with individual tracks first before I did the entire library. You can always "undo" if there is a hitch.
Now I do this after every import for just the imported files, if they contain special characters.
Hope this helps
Hans

HaWi:

--- Quote from: aliciaviola on October 01, 2020, 03:24:14 am ---Two more:
1) Normally I name files and folders with _ between the words, for instance: Stravinsky_Persephone_Dixon_Wunderlich_Schade_HR1960.
MC doesn't read the _. It appears as Stravinsky Persephone Dixon Wunderlich Schade HR1960.

--- End quote ---
I think this is because _ is used by the system to replace the forbidden character : which is not allowed to be part of a filename in most Operating Systems. If any field that becomes part of the filename after "F6" contains a colon : the system will replace it with an underscore _ so the track name Mozart: Don Giovanni  will be saved to disk as Mozart_ Don Giovanni to fulfill OS requirements.
Therefore, if _ is manually inserted it may confuse the system.

aliciaviola:
Regrettably it doesn't help. I know all that and am still changing by hand a handful of files that had to go to a new hard drive. I used F6 (a really great feature of MC) and all went well with the exception of all files which had a special character in their name that were more recognised by MC any more after the move.
It would be extremely helpful if this MC specific inability to handle this problem would be solved until version 40. Again: no other Mac program has any difficulty with special characters or, at least, tells the user if something is going the wrong way!!!

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