<div dir="ltr">As part of my filter I remove punctuation from the song titles. I mostly do this to reduce the title length to help the lame display in my car.<div><div dir="ltr"><div>for example, removing a possessive apostrophe in ('s) doesn't hinder me interpreting the title but does give me one more character on the car's display (and sometimes more if other punc. exists).</div><div><br></div><div>rich<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 8:19 AM Ron <<a href="mailto:ronljohnsonjr@gmail.com" target="_blank">ronljohnsonjr@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
  
    
  
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    Given that quite a few of my songs have apostrophes in them, your
    question <i>did</i> confuse me... :)<br>
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    <div>On 9/21/21 8:58 AM, Bodnar, Jason
      wrote:<br>
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        <div style="font-size:small">Turns out I
          was being over cautious. I didn't need to escape the
          apostrophe at all. abcde took care of it for me. My default
          editor is emacs and when abcde opened it to allow me to
          edit/enter the disc info emacs didn't like the apostrophe
          (color highlighting was weird). I escaped it and it made emacs
          happy but caused problems for abcde as it removed the
          apostrophe but left the slash. If I would've done nothing I
          would've been fine.</div>
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        <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 8:32
          AM Ron <<a href="mailto:ronljohnsonjr@gmail.com" target="_blank">ronljohnsonjr@gmail.com</a>>
          wrote:<br>
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          <div> Double-quote ARTISTFILE and ALBUMFILE?<br>
            <br>
            <div>On 9/20/21 5:18 PM, Bodnar, Jason wrote:<br>
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                <div style="font-size:small">When
                  ripping CDs sometimes the track title (or maybe the
                  album title) has a character in it that causes
                  problems down the road. For example, in "Tryin' to Get
                  the Feeling", the apostrophe causes abcde to fail when
                  moving the track to its final destination.<br>
                  <br>
                  [ERROR] abcde: The following commands failed to run:<br>
                  movetrack-03: returned code 1: mv
                  /tmp/abcde.5a070108/track03.flac
/media/readynas/Music/j/joe_pernice/could_it_be_magic/03-tryin\_to_get_the_feeling.flac<br>
                  replaygain-flac: returned code 1: nice -n 10 metaflac
                  --add-replay-gain
/media/readynas/Music/j/joe_pernice/could_it_be_magic/01-ready_to_take_a_chance_again.flac
/media/readynas/Music/j/joe_pernice/could_it_be_magic/02-even_now.flac
/media/readynas/Music/j/joe_pernice/could_it_be_magic/03-tryin\_to_get_the_feeling.flac
/media/readynas/Music/j/joe_pernice/could_it_be_magic/04-ships.flac
/media/readynas/Music/j/joe_pernice/could_it_be_magic/05-weekend_in_new_england.flac
/media/readynas/Music/j/joe_pernice/could_it_be_magic/06-mandy.flac
/media/readynas/Music/j/joe_pernice/could_it_be_magic/07-looks_like_we_made_it.flac
/media/readynas/Music/j/joe_pernice/could_it_be_magic/08-could_it_be_magic.flac<br>
                  Finished. Not cleaning /tmp/abcde.5a070108.<br>
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                  When entering the track info I escaped the apostrophe:<br>
                  <br>
                  TTITLE2=Tryin\' to Get the Feeling<br>
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                  <div style="font-size:small">Is
                    there some other way to escape it? Or is the problem
                    with my OUTPUTFORMAT command:<br>
                    <br>
                    OUTPUTFORMAT='$(echo ${ARTISTFILE,,} | head -c
                    1)/${ARTISTFILE,,}/${ALBUMFILE,,}/${TRACKNUM}-${TRACKFILE,,}'</div>
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                    <div>Jason Bodnar<br>
                      <a href="mailto:jason@shakabuku.org" target="_blank">jason@shakabuku.org</a><br>
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