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MC12 won't import tracks with square brackets in the title
« on: November 11, 2006, 08:34:45 am »

hi

i am using MC 12.0.106 in parallels (mac virtual PC software) on a macbook pro, and i am having trouble importing tracks with a square bracket in the filename/title of the track.  i am getting a failed to import message.  the drive that i am importing on is on a network and is a FAT32 drive.  i am not sure if this is an issue to do with MC12 or networking/parallels.  could someone please advise

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Re: MC12 won't import tracks with square brackets in the title
« Reply #1 on: November 11, 2006, 10:17:40 am »

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and i am having trouble importing tracks with a square bracket in the filename/title of the track.

it is not a legal Windows OS File Name

I have seen a square in a file name before and it will not work on a ftp server.

I did a search and aparently there are other programs that have a problem with a square in the file name.

i think windows thinks it is a line feed or something
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Re: MC12 won't import tracks with square brackets in the title
« Reply #2 on: November 11, 2006, 10:52:30 am »

For example,  [Yes, it is legal].fyi  is a legal filename.

However, the network client & PC emulator combo or the used network server SW may convert square brackets to something illegal. Do you have a Windows server or something else?

Can you see the file in Drives & Devices (inside MC)? If yes, what is the displayed filename?
What happens if you try to drag such a file to Playing Now from Windows Explorer? Can you play it?
Can you import the file from your local Windows partition?
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Re: MC12 won't import tracks with square brackets in the title
« Reply #3 on: November 11, 2006, 10:58:01 am »

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/138299/en-us

it could be something microsoft does not understand so it may just look like a square. i seen a matrix that had some of the chrs looking as a square, there was more than one.
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Re: MC12 won't import tracks with square brackets in the title
« Reply #4 on: November 11, 2006, 11:58:47 am »

The combination of "a standard Windows 2000/XP network server PC", "a standard Windows 2000/XP network client PC" and "MC on this client PC" works fine with filenames with square brackets.

Obviously something is changing the name in nick_harambee's setup.

Personally I tend to simplify the filenames on the disk and use only common characters and relatively short names. I keep anything unusual in the file and library tags only. From time to time I need to use my files outside the Windows environment.

For example, I use a Mac HFS+ formatted external Firewire drive for transferring big captured DV video files between PCs and Macs. On PC I use MacDrive for accessing the drive. This program does usually good job in translating the filenames, but sometimes it cannot copy a file before I change the Windows filename. The last time this happened was when I had a couple of quite long filenames and the only difference was in the last character before the filename extension. I had to change the beginning of the name to make the program understand that the files had different names.
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Re: MC12 won't import tracks with square brackets in the title
« Reply #5 on: November 11, 2006, 05:36:01 pm »

the files show in windows explorer, but don't show under drives and devices in MC.  i cant import/drag and drop from windows explorer

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Re: MC12 won't import tracks with square brackets in the title
« Reply #6 on: November 12, 2006, 08:21:01 am »

You are talking about a different thing, King. He doesn't mean the square that shows an invalid character, he means [ and ], which are called square brackets and are completely valid in filenames. The use of them is very common in ripped MP3's, so called "original relases", I have heard from a naughty uncle who downloads stuff like that... :D
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Re: MC12 won't import tracks with square brackets in the title
« Reply #7 on: November 14, 2006, 08:13:30 pm »

Can I just hook on the bandwagon, as this seems to be an appropriate thread  ;D
Has the problem with multiple dots (Full-stops) in the name from MC 11 been resolved?
Considering a purchase, but I've got somewhere in the reigon of 15k files which have multiple dots in the filename. I'm assuming that MC assumed them to be additional extensions & threw a fit.

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Re: MC12 won't import tracks with square brackets in the title
« Reply #8 on: November 25, 2006, 06:40:08 am »

any more thoughts on this??  do i need to find all of the tracks with square brackets and change to round brackets??

thanks

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Re: MC12 won't import tracks with square brackets in the title
« Reply #9 on: November 25, 2006, 09:02:43 am »

Have a look at my thread a little further down. Seems only to apply to some filetypes, but no resolution ATM.
MP3's & AACs are working, but DIVX & Real Media aren't.

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Re: MC12 won't import tracks with square brackets in the title
« Reply #10 on: November 25, 2006, 10:35:58 am »

any more thoughts on this??  do i need to find all of the tracks with square brackets and change to round brackets??
Would help if you mention with which filetypes you are having this problem ?
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Re: MC12 won't import tracks with square brackets in the title
« Reply #11 on: November 25, 2006, 10:44:28 am »

FLAC
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Re: MC12 won't import tracks with square brackets in the title
« Reply #12 on: November 25, 2006, 03:11:08 pm »

MC is handling flac files with [square brackets] in the filenames perfectly fine here.

Perhaps there is something else at play in your case?
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Re: MC12 won't import tracks with square brackets in the title
« Reply #13 on: November 25, 2006, 03:34:18 pm »

Tested on this machine & they're not  ::)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't all the filetypes mentioned in this thread going through FFDShow filters? I know there's not a driver as such, but maybe this has something to with the filter version installed or something?

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Re: MC12 won't import tracks with square brackets in the title
« Reply #14 on: November 25, 2006, 07:44:41 pm »

what else is at play is that i am importing via parallels desktop (virtual pc software) over a network in mac osx.  MC12 imports square brackets fine directly into windows.  i only had 100 files with square brackets so i have altered the filenames to normal brackets and they have imported fine,

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Re: MC12 won't import tracks with square brackets in the title
« Reply #15 on: December 03, 2006, 03:49:34 pm »

There are (or were) some issues with characters not being recognized during the import of the file.  After I switched over to using the Reader as opposed to the File version, this should have been fixed.

But the fact that it's running on the Mac makes it more difficult  ;D
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