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tdtooke:
Basically I'm wanting to know if anybody knows how I can have a filename of something like "Krankenhaus?.bmp" for cover art.  Once I found a way to get a file with a name like that onto my ipod by using media monkey with that script for the ipod to scan my ipod and copy the cover art to a folder on my hard drive.  Albums with those symbols in the names had their art shown as having an underscore for those characters on windows, though they were really named with the symbols.  I've tried to use linux to copy over files to my ipod named this way but can't, can't save a file name like that to a fat formatted disk my windows partion can read either.  I can of course save it to a ext2/3 formatted disk but I don't know how to get windows to read that.  From before I know once the file is actually on windows I can transfer it over.  Anybody know how I can do this short of reinstalling media monkey as before and using itunes to put cover art on that and extracting it as before?  I really don't want to do all that and since Media Monkey can name files this way therefore it must be somehow possible.

safetydan:
The FAT filesystem has a limit on the characters that filenames can have. For example, you cannot have a * a ? or a : in a filename on a FAT formatted drive. There is nothing Rockbox can do about this.

tdtooke:
I fully understand that, and I don't want "Rockbox" to do anything about it.  I just thought that since what I described can be done by media monkey then it must be possible and maybe someone might know a way to do it short of using media monkey the way I described.

Edit: ex: Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?.bmp is in fact on my ipod through the aforementioned media monkey method.

Llorean:
FAT32 can't support those filenames. It is impossible to put them on a Rockbox player without them being renamed to something FAT32 can support.

DeanMurray:
You could rename the image as cover.bmp and place it in the same directory as the music file to display your album art.

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