[mb-users] Replacing Windows-Incompatible Characters

[Philipp Wolfer]

On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 10:49 AM, Adam Golding <adamgolding at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Philipp,
>
>   I beleive it was you I was talking to in the irc channel.  I was thinking
> more about the case of / and \ characters.  I think this is why the other
> solution I mentioned is more ideal, that of customizing the stage where _ is
> inserted in the first place.  Then, rather than using $replace to decide how
> non-windows characters other than / and \ are treated, it would be chosen
> elsewhere, in a separate options pane of picard, which contains a list of
> illegal windows characters, and values that they will be replaced by.
> Obviously the program would have to not accept illegal replace values.  The
> default could be left at underscore for all values to avoid messing up older
> scripts, but the user could still customize this, even in the case of / and
> \.  I believe I've seen this in other mp3 renaming programs, too.  Everyone
> let me know what you think :-)


This would probably be a solution which would give people all the freedom
they need. There is already ticket
http://lists.musicbrainz.org/pipermail/musicbrainz-users/2008-June/017988.htmlsuggesting
this.

However, the current change is still necessary as it makes the scripting
behavior more predictable for the user.



-- 
Philipp Wolfer
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