So I've been away from MC for quite a while, but recently upgraded to v11.1.191. I had a rather catastrophic crash of my music server a while ago and am just now reconstructing all of my lost information. There's no better tool for doing massive tagging & library organization than MC, so I'm relearning all of it's little quirks.
One that is biting me again is the restriction on filename length of my m4a files (AAC encoding). Like many people, I have my main music library encoded as APE/CUEs and a shadow library of those files encoded as m4a files. MC can playback both varieties, as long as the filenames of the m4a files are under 60-some-odd characters.
Now, one of the last things I'm going to do as part of my library clean up is to rename my files from their tags/library information. This will make many of my filenames even longer.... So some questions for the collective wisdom & developers:
1) Are there other file/pathname length restrictions I'm going to bump into?
2) Will MC automatically work-around and intelligently truncate these restrictions?
3) What can be done to make MC play my (long-named) m4a files? I mean, if foobar2000 can do it & iTunes can do it....
Brad