Album art won't work with album titles including /, :, etc

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  • dibdib
    Junior Member
    • Apr 2006
    • 47

    Album art won't work with album titles including /, :, etc

    Winamp uses directory album art by checking the album title against an included jpg file, such as "Master of Puppets.jpg". Because Windows filenames can't contain certain characters like : or /, Winamp can't load a jpg for these albums.

    I would recommend skipping over the characters that couldn't be used in a filename, so that an album like "Astro-Creep: 2000" could use a file "Astro-Creep 2000.jpg"
  • Sawg
    Forum King
    • Jun 2000
    • 7456

    #2
    Winamp 5.5 Release Notes

    Album Art: %album%.jpg path cleaning. Retrieval service now replaces illegal characters in the Album name by using the same naming convention as cd ripping for saving the cover filename. i.e.
    ? * | are replaced by _ (underscore)
    / \ : are replaced by - (hyphen)
    " is replaced by '
    < is replaced by (
    > is replaced by )
    Examples:
    Album Name: Greatest Hits: Why? = cover filename: Greatest Hits_ Why-.jpg
    Album Name: Vol. 1: "\Bleh/" <|Blah|> = cover filename: Vol. 1- '-Bleh-' (_Blah_).jpg*



    "Astro-Creep- 2000.jpg"
    | Brought to you by ^V ^C | The one... the original... no seriously!

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    • dibdib
      Junior Member
      • Apr 2006
      • 47

      #3
      I would personally prefer skipping reserved characters to substituting arbitrary characters, but I suppose as long as I keep that legend on hand I can manage my art covers. Thanks!

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