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

[Rich Painter]

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.
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).

rich

On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 8:19 AM Ron <ronljohnsonjr at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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> 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
>>
>>
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