1 (edited by MrPete 2013-11-30 01:50:33)

Topic: Some New Names begin with \\ -- how to fix... + one or two bugs found

There's something intermittent and strange about the beginning of the New Name. (I found the bug(s) and workarounds)

My setup:

* Files in a folder on D:

D:\Music\Music - T\1311

The symptoms I see:
1) Sometimes, some of the files get a New Name that begins with \\

eg: 

Various Artists\\[%Ay] %AA\\%AT At (%Aa).%e 

Some files are ok, ie

Various Artists\[2000] High... 

But some are not, ie

\\Various Artists\[1999] South... 

2) If I then force to an absolute path (e.g. add  D:\\ ) it breaks in a different way:
Some files are ok, ie

D:\Various Artists\[2000] High... 

But the broken ones now have a different issue:

D:\Music\Music - T\1311\ Bigger... 

a) The entire path has been inserted
b) Various Artists isn't there at all
c) The year and album name have completely disappeared
d) There's a blank space at the beginning of the album name

3) If I then remove the D:\\ it sometimes gets even stranger --

On some entries, I get 

 :\Various... 

a) A colon at the start
b) A single backslash not two!

Ah HAH! The album name contains a  : ... I added a couple of modifiers.

eg: 

Various Artists\\[%Ay] %AA(":"," ")("  "," ")\\%AT At (%Aa).%e 

...and now it works correctly.

But I suspect #2 and #3 are in reality bugs. That was pretty subtle. wink

Re: Some New Names begin with \\ -- how to fix... + one or two bugs found

Welcome to this forum MrPete,

To investigate it would be easier to work on some of the files on which the different issues appear.
If needed you can send them to me by mail at the address you'll find in Siren's "?/About ..." window.

Thanks a lot for this bug report.

Re: Some New Names begin with \\ -- how to fix... + one or two bugs found

Hello,

Siren 3.14 beta 1 should fix these issues.

Regards

Re: Some New Names begin with \\ -- how to fix... + one or two bugs found

(My abject apologies for not returning for many years!!!... "Real life" intervened.  hmm )