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Remaining Problems
aliciaviola:
If I have tagged the files with MC the search works without a problem.
But if I save a file to the SSD or HDD with Vänskä in the filename, the tracks are shown on the Mac correctly as Vänskä, but MC reads the filename as "Va nska " - as shown in the appended file. If I am tagging a file with Vänskä with another program (Metadatics), MC in any tag field reads Vänskä as "Va nska ". Filenames from WaveLab Pro or iZotope have the same problem.
Names copied from the finder or from Safari and pasted into a MC tag field have the same problem, names copied and pasted from MS Word or Chrome (nearly always) not.
Files cannot be saved to a folder that has a * or " in their name. MC instead creates a new folder. A ? in the name of a track is saved as _.
aliciaviola:
Sorry, forget to send the picture
blgentry:
The real questions for me are:
1. Is that really the file name as shown in Finder or in Terminal?
2. What created these file names? Did you rip with MC? Did you rename in MC? My file names come from my ripping program and are later modified by MC during a Rename operation. I have quite a few diacritic characters in my file names.
3. Does it matter? What I mean is, you use the MC display tags to identify the Song, Composer, Conductor, etc. These are saved in Tags that are INSIDE the file. So they are portable to other systems that read tags (pretty much every music player). So do the file names really matter in terms of exact characters? The answer for me is definitely that they file names only need to be "close enough" to be identifiable. The real data is in the tags.
Brian.
HaWi:
Just to chime in here. I have brought this up occasionally but have never received any solution for the "special character" issue. I would highly appreciate if this could be solved once and for all as it is imperative to be able to use special (i.e foreign) characters (except for control character such as %, $, &, \, etc.) in file names and folder names.
blgentry:
Hawi, isn't your issue with diacritic characters about how you enter them? I.E. other programs let you enter the characters in a standardized way, but MC requires some special procedure that is more time consuming and difficult?
As I said, I have quite a few file names with diacritic characters in them.
Brian.
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