jaaktmgi;530369 Wrote: > Thank you for your help gharris999! > My description of the problem was too confusing unfortunately. I have > been trying to create a batch script based encoding workflow (on > Windows XP) and it failed always with UTF8 filenames. > > I have noticed from your earlier postings that you use UTF8 filenames > extensively and I got the feeling that you have found a solution now. > > The problem is actually caused by the "metaflac.exe" which returnes an > error when used with UTF8 filename as parameter. This is described > here: > http://flac.sourceforge.net/faq.html#tools__unicode_filenames_windows > > I seems that the UTF8 filenames must be temporarily renamed in order to > use "metaflac.exe". > > Kind regards, > Jaak Actually, my flac collection is of the 99% whole-cd-with-embedded-cuesheets variety. I do still continue to avoid characters with certain diacritics (e.g. 'č') in filenames. But looking at the flac FAQ you cite, I can't help but think that Josh just never pushed himself to make the windows versions of flac.exe & metaflac.exe perform on par with the versions for other OSs. For instance: he complains that the windows shell doesn't perform wildcard expansion. But there are plenty of spots in the flac code that get conditionally compiled according to the target OS. My little utility that I posted above includes code I wrote 15 years ago in the 90s to perform wildcard expansion. The code has worked flawlessly on every windows OS since NT 3.1. I few "#ifdef WIN32"s in the code would maintain perfect portability.
Anyway, it sounds like we need a unicode-aware command-line flac tagger that doesn't rely on metaflac.exe. I'm not sure when I'll have the time to do this, but I'll add the project idea to the hopper. -- gharris999 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ gharris999's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=115 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=76460 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
