Bug 62368

Summary: special characters from ID3 tags in filenames
Product: [Unmaintained] kaudiocreator Reporter: Sebastian <sbtm3>
Component: generalAssignee: Gerd Fleischer <gerdfleischer>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal    
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 0.89   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: openSUSE   
OS: Linux   
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Description Sebastian 2003-08-08 10:43:22 UTC 
Version:           0.89 (using KDE 3.1.1)
Installed from:    SuSE
Compiler:          gcc version 3.3 20030226 (prerelease) (SuSE Linux)
OS:          Linux (i686) release 2.4.21-4-default

When using values from ID3 tags to compose the filename, tags that contain characters that are allowed in ID3 tags but not in filenames (such as ":") do not work. This is only reported in after ripping as a gerneral "could not create ... file" giving the lame command. It would be helpful to get a more specific error message here. Also, I suggest resolving this issue by just dropping disallowed characters from ID3 when using them as filenames. I have to admit that this is a little difficult, as what is alllowed or not somewhat depends on the filesystem used. At least the most obvious one should be checked for (i.e. ":" works on no filesystem).
Comment 1 Thiago Macieira 2003-08-08 11:32:52 UTC 
/ is guaranteed not to work. ? and * are allowed, but are bad idea, as are quotes (' and "). 
 
: works fine
Comment 2 icefox 2003-08-26 04:23:32 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 58414 ***
Comment 3 Werner Bonath 2007-02-12 11:44:35 UTC 
I would prefer an option like "secure filenames" which substitutes " ( : * etc. and restricts also the length of the filenae, because some ID tags include a lot of comments