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\1311The 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. 
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