[gibxxi]

Hi i got a question,

I use the cdArt Manger addon to get all the extrafanart/logo and stuff for my music collection.

cdArt manger have a option to replace illegal Characters, for example all the R.E.M. images are in a folder called R.E.M_

If i play R.E.M., AS dont recognize the folder from cdArt Manager, instead AS download all the pictures again and place them in a Folder named "RP85G1~P"

So I have all the Images twice...

would it be possible to use the same replace illegal characters option from cdArt Manger in AS? So AS use the images that are downloaded by cdArt Manager.

I have to start by pointing out that a period at the end of the folder name is not an illegal character on any platform as far as I know. So that makes me less inclined to use the illegal character logic used by cdArt manager. If someone can send me the illegal character logic for cdArt Manager, I'll look at it. No promises though.

If I may chime in here, as I've suffered this very issue with an artist name ending in with a period character. It will work fine on Linux, which is where my media is stored (Linux-based NAS), the problems start in Windows. If you have a folder ending in a trailing period that's synced as it exists in Linux with something like Rsync or another sync tool back to Windows, one of two things will occur. 1. Either windows will give the folder name a differing name (using random characters), or 2. It will treat the folder as if it's a file, not a folder, and then navigation into said folder will be impossible. The only way to then manipulate the folder item is to use a force deletion tool like "Unlocker" to remove the offending entry as Windows will spit out errors whenever you try to do anything with it (Usually file/folder not found errors).

Windows also doesn't like folders with leading periods either, and I have an album which comes under that criteria, but I guess that's another issue.

Gib.