Windows filename conventions causing playlist mismatch

[limetime]

First and foremost, what a fantastic job you've done on this! I've had great success just using the recompiled .exe. However, I often have playlists that have quotation marks, slashes or similar in them which are not permitted in Windows filenames. This means that the playlist points towards files that have got "_" instead of "/". When it is imported via the playlist import procedure, it obviously fails.

I was just wondering whether there is any fix that can be done on the side of the importer rather than manually editing through find and replace in the .m3u?

[dakusan]

Not 100% sure which of the following you are asking about:

1. Characters in the m3u filename
2. Characters in the filenames inside the m3u
3. Characters in the playlist name inside plex

Assuming #2 is what you are asking about, how is the file played in plex at all, if the filename is "invalid"? I would note that the unallowed characters are strictly an NTFS thing. Using ext on windows, all characters but the forward slash are allowed. Is this what is happening?

[limetime]

Hi thanks very much for coming back to me on this. I'll try to clarify the situation, my apologies for not being clear enough.

Characters in the filenames inside the m3u = Jackie Wilson (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher.mp3

Filename (as permitted by NTFS) = Jackie Wilson Your Love Keeps Lifting Me Higher and Higher.mp3

So the file can play, its name is valid per NTFS, but it doesn't match perfectly with the m3u list and therefore the playlist import fails unless I manually find and replace the mismatching characters in the m3u. If that's the only workaround then that's fine but I was hopeful you might have a fix :)

[dakusan]

Sorry for the wait, I'll look into this tomorrow and should probably have a fix.

[limetime]

No problem at all and thanks :)

[dakusan]

Windows explorer (at least for Windows 7) and NTFS both actually support parenthesis, so you can add them back into your file names.

I guess it wouldn't hurt for me to add a filename transform parameter. I'll see if I can't get to that in the next few days.