Filenames on iriver H300

[prlewis]

Hi,

Firstly, thanks for Rockbox - it's given my iriver a new lease of life!

Secondly, I'm using GNU/Linux set up with unicode filenames. Since my music filenames are generated from the tags, they often contain characters such as : ? and !.

My iriver H300 doesn't seem to like these. I honestly can't remember if I used to be able to have filenames with these characters in before I installed Rockbox, but I can't find any information about it now.

Is there a way of setting up the device so that I can have filenames containing these characters?

Thanks!

Pete.

[MoD]

Nope!

Rockbox supports the exact same characters for filenames as the iriver firmware does. The supported characters are defined by the partition format, which is FAT32 for both firmwares.
Rockbox and iriver firmware support only FAT32. So you have to exchange your special characters with different ones that are supported.

[Genre9mp3]

The allowed characters is completely a matter of the file system. In FAT32 you are not allowed to use these characters:

\ / : * " ? < > |

You shouldn't have any problems with the ! character though

[prlewis]

Thanks for the info. I'd suspected it would be like that.

I've been using EasyTag to organise my collection and it creates the file and directory names from the tags automatically, which is very helpful. It seems I've got quite a bit of work to get them all to be compatible. Unless anyone knows an easy way....?

Cheers,

Pete.

[prlewis]

Ah, just realised that EasyTag has an option to remove invalid characters. Hopefully this will do the trick.

Thanks again for the info and keep up the good work!

Pete.

[MoD]

yep, easytag does this job quite good