On Jan 27, 2008 10:13 PM, Brian Schweitzer
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> It's also in http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/ClassicalTrackTitleStyle ,
> under "Forbidden symbols to comply with device file system
> idiosyncracies".
> As I say, we already use such illegal symbols (:,?, /, etc).  The
> "Colons and slashes and perhaps other symbols are not recognised in
> some mp3 ogg player filesystems e.g. iriver, OSX." argument, if we
> truely are moving to a music database, and not a tagging database,
> would seem outdated.
>

Especially considering that properly designed taggers can compensate
for the filesystem-side issues, and and reciprocating  that
compensation to the ID3/APE/etc. tags will fix the coresponding issues
in most players that are marginally unicode compliant.

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