Help replacing special or forbidden characters

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@WovenTales

the slashes: are they also replaced ahead of time to avoid unexpected folder creation?

I know you already found the following thread, just wanted to link to it for others:

Help with Picard tagger script

That’s actually not as easy as using $replace in the naming script. The slash / is a special character that is used as a folder separator in the naming script. To prevent that a slash in any variable is treated as a folder separator it gets replaced in all variables before the scripting is actually executed. That means if you have %artist% set to AC/DC it will be converted to AC_DC before being processed by the script. If that would not happen you would end up with a folder hierarchy of AC > DC…