[Abcde-users] How to deal with problematic characters?

[Bodnar, Jason]

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.

[ERROR] abcde: The following commands failed to run:
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
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
Finished. Not cleaning /tmp/abcde.5a070108.

When entering the track info I escaped the apostrophe:

TTITLE2=Tryin\' to Get the Feeling

Is there some other way to escape it? Or is the problem with my
OUTPUTFORMAT command:

OUTPUTFORMAT='$(echo ${ARTISTFILE,,} | head -c
1)/${ARTISTFILE,,}/${ALBUMFILE,,}/${TRACKNUM}-${TRACKFILE,,}'

-- 
Jason Bodnar
jason at shakabuku.org
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