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

[Ron]

Given that quite a few of my songs have apostrophes in them, your question 
/did/ confuse me... :)

On 9/21/21 8:58 AM, Bodnar, Jason wrote:
> 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.
>
> On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 8:32 AM Ron <ronljohnsonjr at gmail.com 
> <mailto:ronljohnsonjr at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     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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