Re: [mb-users] Picard file naming issue

2013/8/14 Calvin Walton <[email protected]>

> On Wed, 2013-08-14 at 11:58 +0200, Frederic Da Vitoria wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have just tagged this
> > http://musicbrainz.org/release/541d57c6-79f8-4cfd-b76b-0ae019d99036 with
> > Picard. I found that the file names were strange: all the Requiem tracks
> > were named ## Gabriel Faure - Requiem, op..mp3 and all the Messe tracks
> > were named ## Gabriel Faure & Andre Message.mp3. I first thought this
> was a
> > string length issue, but the file names aren't the same size in the 2
> > works.
> >
> > Here are the Picard options I use:
> > - "Rename files when saving": checked,
> > - "Replace non-ASCII characters": checked,
> > - "Move files to this directory when saving": checked and set to a
> > directory different from the source,
> > - "Name files like this":
> >
> "$if2(%albumartistsort%,%artistsort%)/$left(%originaldate%,4)-%album%/$if($gt(%totaldiscs%,1),%discnumber%-,)$num(%tracknumber%,2)$if(%compilation%,
> > %artist% -,) %title%"
> >
> > Am I missing something or is this a bug?
>
> What operating system are you using this on, Windows?
>
> Windows has an issue where the maximum total length of a filesystem path
> is limited to a fixed value. As a result, Picard has to truncate file or
> directory names if you're approaching this limit.
>
> (Linux works differently; there is a maximum length per path component,
> but the total length has no limit.)
>
> Different versions of Picard use slightly different algorithms for this;
> recent versions will attempt to truncate directory names to allow more
> room to be left for filenames, for example. I think it tries not to
> split in the middle of a word, which explains the variation that you're
> seeing.
>
> To work around the issue, you can try moving the directory where you're
> saving files closer to the top level of the filesystem; e.g
> C:\\Music
> is better than
> C:\\Documents and Settings\Username\My Documents\Some Subdirectory\Temp
> Place to store Picard Output
>

Yes, sorry, I should have mentioned this before. I am running Windows Seven
64 bits. My current Picard base path is d:\Sons\_MusicBrainz Picard\ There
is a space in there but I don't think this is the issue or I wouldn't have
any output at all, would I? I have been using the same path for years now
(Seven for 1 year, Vista 32 bits before) without any issue of this type.

-- 
Frederic Da Vitoria
(davitof)

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