hondagx35 wrote:What file format (wav, mp3 orflac)?
I never did and will understand why people use special characters in file names.
It is so hard for developers to handle such file and path names.
Also you may get strange behavior by moving such files over different OSs.
I personally only use flac and mp3 files.
Both without any special characters, but tagged with correct names / attributes.
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Frank
Specidal characters work fine on my use (all linux boxes in the home, a NAS,...)
But...
I will never understand why devs don't use encoding schemes that deal with "special" characters correctly. Please keep in mind that what is a "special" character for you is a perfectly normal letter in my own language. I should be able to have filenames of all my Tchaïchovsky libray in cyrilic alphabet for instance as well as all the perfectly fine german Lieders titles, or nordic death metal titles. The linux world has been using UTF8 for years now, there are probably a number of ways to deal with those name correctly in a web interface. Don't get me wrong, it's not RuneUI's fault if Windows mangles the filenames, it's the filesystem's fault.
In understand that you would keep "normal" characters in the filename and use "special" characters only in tags but this brings useless confusion and can lead to mistakes (what about sorting, for instance?). We're no longer in the dark ages of computers, where we were bound by the limitations of FAT32 or even NTFS. There are legitimate modern filessystems without those limitations.
And with special characters I guess you also take care of filename length, path length, etc... these worries **should** no longer exist on any modern computer (less than 10 years old). So yes, it creates problems to me when (for example) I want to give a couple of albums to a friend. Filenames and directory names are often too long. But I shouldn't be limited by other people using crapy software.
