When using Music Brainz to organise my tracks I’ve noticed it uses a backtick (`) as opposed to an apostrophe ('), it wasn’t like this before.
This is a bit of nightmare when it comes to using rekordbox as it does quite display properly, is there a way of changing this?
Eg: You`re the one to You’re the one
I’m using this one.
It makes the format similar to how it would be if I had ripped from a cd.
%albumartist%/%album%/$if($gt(%totaldiscs%,1),CD%discnumber%/,)$num(%tracknumber%,2) %title%
It is the font being chosen on your device that make it look funky like that. The device is expecting plain ASCII I expect.
Use a more common font and you will not get the problem. Like in this forum, you don’t see them change. But it is not “as you type”. (Compare the right window to the left window and you’ll see it)
Speechmarks, Apostrophe’s and hypens all get “the treatment”.
Yeah - you may want to get that powershell script out on your hyphens too… otherwise any sub-folder with a dash in it will now be different to sub-folders you tag in future… first time that happened to me it confused me as to what was happen-ing!
Picard couldn’t go back and fix the already tagged files. Much quicker to write an OS repair script.
Especially as they had not spotted the “Convert Unicode punctuation characters to ASCII” option. All Picard would do it keep the Unicode stuff from the database.
(Yes, I know, pedant hat on… now they have ticked the option Picard can correct everything… but powershell is quicker)
Yes, that would have been easier but I didn’t have the reason why it was putting in that particular symbol, the 2nd headache I had was that the metatag had them too but I was able to use another problem to eliminate them manually/painfully till again I found that there was a quicker way, all a learning curve for me, these programs are very powerful when you know how.
Thanks to @IvanDobsky the remaining ones I did drop back into Pickard and it sorted them.
And Picard would have just put all the Unicode punctuation back. @winston79 had not spotted the option to turn that off so had to resort to external means.
When you are an old hand with Picard, you know of “Convert Unicode punctuation characters to ASCII”. But when just trying to quickly tag some files the whole thing is a huge complex mystery of options.
I must be missing something… change the setting (obviously), drag all the files in, and hit save again, done. Unicode gone.
If the files have been previously tagged there are no other steps?