Re: Add pre-scan task?

> When I try to restore (values) from the backup file I think I have
> encoding and un/escaping problems with special characters in the file
> path that are driving me crazy. Maybe you'll spot what I'm missing:

Trust me: I feel your pain!

>    filename: "Evocação nº 1.m4a"
>    
>    The url in LMS database saved as:  file:///Users/af1/Music/MEDIA/05%20Evocac%CC%A7a%CC%83o%20n%C2%BA%201.m4a
>    
>    FULL url saved in backup file (uri_escape_utf8):  file%3A%2F%2F%2FUsers%2Faf1%2FMusic%2FMEDIA%2F05%2520Evocac%25CC%25A7a%25CC%2583o%2520n%25C2%25BA%25201.m4a

Why would you double escape the URL?

> "-f" on the uri_unescaped *full* track url from the backup file works.

That would work for the _URL_? That would surprise me. At least on eg. 
Windows I wouldn't expect this to work. You could or should use 
Slim::Misc::pathFromFileURL() to convert the URL to a path.

> But the relative path, that I have to create first, won't work for this
> file - probably because of the spec. chars because it works for less
> problematic file names.
> I just put the media dir followed by a slash before the relative url.

Did you unescape the relative URL, too? And instead of just adding a 
slash you should use catdir/catfile from File::Spec::Functions. it does 
deal with different platforms (backslashes on

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