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[MrEWhite]

Don't know if this is with all uses of "-" but when I was playing Metallica's S&M and the song "- Human" came on, on the title at the top didn't contain the - at the top.

[RoderickGI]

Is it actually in the [Name] field?

If you are expecting to see it because it is in the file name, MC may have removed it as part of the import process.

If it isn't in the [Name] field just add it back in.

[Awesome Donkey]

I see it just fine here.

[MrEWhite]

Is it actually in the [Name] field?

If you are expecting to see it because it is in the file name, MC may have removed it as part of the import process.

If it isn't in the [Name] field just add it back in.

It is in the name field. Weird that it's showing for Awesome Donkey.

[MrEWhite]

Actually, it seems that if I put the title at the end of the title display, it shows right, but if I put it at the start like previously pictured, it shows incorrectly.

But I prefer it showing how I previously had it.

[RoderickGI]

I should have looked at the details section of your image, where the [Name] field is shown.  at me.

MC is doing some automatic cleanup by the look. Even changing the Display Title area to use the [Name] field literal, using [Name, 0] still trims the "- " from the front of the name. In fact, I can't find any way to force Mc to retain the "- ".

Maybe someone else can work out how to display it. Although it is a bit of a Corner Case. It's not very common to have what is essentially punctuation at the beginning of a Track name.

[MrEWhite]

I should have looked at the details section of your image, where the [Name] field is shown.  at me.

MC is doing some automatic cleanup by the look. Even changing the Display Title area to use the [Name] field literal, using [Name, 0] still trims the "- " from the front of the name. In fact, I can't find any way to force Mc to retain the "- ".

Maybe someone else can work out how to display it. Although it is a bit of a Corner Case. It's not very common to have what is essentially punctuation at the beginning of a Track name.

It isn't a huge issue, just a nitpick, but would be nice to have it properly shown.

[Matt]

We call JRString::CleanFilledTemplate which does this:
// cut off a leading "- " if it exists (don't just trim left a minus because negative numbers aren't uncommon)

I think cleaning the filled templates is probably good because it fixes problems.

So I would say this is just the way it is.

[Jamil]

Don't know if this is with all uses of "-" but when I was playing Metallica's S&M and the song "- Human" came on, on the title at the top didn't contain the - at the top.

You may be able to work-around their logic by using a different Unicode character that resembles "-".

For example:



The above is different from the standard ANSI "-".  This is Unicode character 02D7.

You may launch charmap.exe, find this character, copy it to the clipboard, then paste replacing the standard "-".

If this still does not work and their logic even strips this away, find another character similar to it and replace with the next one.

[EnglishTiger]

Since the Proper Title "- Human (Live)" is in the Name Field/Tag does it really matter that MC is "trimming" the Name in the Player Bar. Given that any alteration to the Tag, to get MC to display "- Human (Live)" in the payer bar could, and probably will, result in a Non-Match if you did an Internet Search using the Modified Track Name as one of the search parameters.

[Awesome Donkey]

Odd that it's not trimming it for me.

[Matt]

Odd that it's not trimming it for me.

Take note that you need a space after it as well.  So -Human won't trim, but - Human would.  In my library, it's called Minus Human

[Awesome Donkey]

Hmmmm, there is a space (the track name for it in my library is - Human (Live)) and it's not trimming it for me. Maybe I'm just lucky.

[Matt]

It only trims if the line starts with those characters.  So if you've got something else before, they would also be left alone.

[MrEWhite]

We call JRString::CleanFilledTemplate which does this:
// cut off a leading "- " if it exists (don't just trim left a minus because negative numbers aren't uncommon)

I think cleaning the filled templates is probably good because it fixes problems.

So I would say this is just the way it is.

Take note that you need a space after it as well.  So -Human won't trim, but - Human would.  In my library, it's called Minus Human

I bought it from Metallica's site and it came with the title "- Human (Live)," so I guess I'll just deal with it then.