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Special characters in filename for album art.

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tdtooke:
Stop trying to read into everything.  If I think I know more than you I'll let you know in no uncertain terms, I don't play the game of subtlety.  At any rate I'm going to pursue this with the media monkey community, I think that would be best for everybody.

bascule:
Are you sure that MediaMonkey isn't just displaying the filename with a '?', because it knows that it had to change it and therefore renders the '?' when showing you the filename, even though it actually wrote '_' to the filesystem?

pixelma:
That made me think about...


--- Quote from: tdtooke on January 23, 2008, 11:33:26 PM ---If you browse it in rockbox that file shows up as "Hissing Fauna, Are you the Destroyer_.bmp".  However if you rename it just by deleting that underscore and typing another underscore it no longer shows as album art in the WPS so that underscore is clearly no ordinary underscore.
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It could be that MediaMonkey replaces the ? with a character that's not in the font you're using, possibly one rare character which it always uses as question mark (so "recognises" agin) but one which is valid in FAT32. Then the "unknown character" will be used which usually looks like a box but how it looks is also part of the font - maybe the "unknown character" looks more like an underscore in your font. What if you change the font to unifont (which has the most characters by far)?

Llorean:
That's actually what I was thinking might be happening too, pixelma. That would explain why replacing it with a normal _ didn't have the album art show anymore, since the song filename was still the specialized character.

blueskip:
I think you guys are talking about apples and oranges.  

I actually think I know the answer to the question posed.  MediaMonkey displays what the tag contains not the file name.  The tag may have special characters because Windows ignores it.  I have several that way myself.  I changed them mainly due to the fact most were in another language I didn't speak.  (those are indeed the font issue described)  

That said, I have never tried to use MediaMonkey to write those tagnames to the file so I can't answer the question of what it would look like in Windows Explorer in that case.  I agree that those particular charactrers aren't supported so it shouldn't happen.  BUT I have downloaded files that had invalid file names (not necessarily music) from other type systems that I even had a hard time deleting because Windows would basicly freak out on the structure of the name.  

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