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

[Ron]

Double-quote ARTISTFILE and ALBUMFILE?

On 9/20/21 5:18 PM, Bodnar, Jason wrote:
> 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 <mailto:jason at shakabuku.org>
>
>
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