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Subject:How are titles saved.
Posted by: Kit
Date:1/25/2014 6:14:06 PM

In CD information I may have a title containing a ":", which is an illegal character when saving a file name. I've noticed that Sound Forge is changing these automatically to an underscore. Is there any way to stop it from doing that or choose another character that it converts specific illegal characters to? I'd prefer " - " to an underscore. Thanks.
Subject:RE: How are titles saved.
Reply by: musicvid10
Date:1/27/2014 11:02:47 AM

Use a batch file renamer first, that's the only thing I can think of.
Subject:RE: How are titles saved.
Reply by: Kit
Date:1/27/2014 6:51:05 PM

Thanks but I don't want to change the original name. I'd still like to know how/why Sound Forge does this and if it can be disabled.
Subject:RE: How are titles saved.
Reply by: rraud
Date:1/28/2014 12:40:48 PM

Try using < ' > instead of < " > if CD info uses normal HTML formatting, try < *&Prime; > without the < * >. sorry, I don't have SF on the this machine to try.
Subject:RE: How are titles saved.
Reply by: Kit
Date:1/28/2014 4:00:27 PM

Thanks, but where do I try this?
Subject:RE: How are titles saved.
Reply by: musicvid10
Date:1/30/2014 9:25:19 PM

I suggested you change the original file names to remove the ":" character, which we agree is illegal.

Just the same,, you could batch-rename the finished files to change whatever the character was replaced with, to whatever you want it to be.. Doesn't seem like rocket science.

Message last edited on1/30/2014 9:32:12 PM bymusicvid10.
Subject:RE: How are titles saved.
Reply by: Kit
Date:1/31/2014 6:06:30 AM

I shouldn't need to mess around with batch renaming after the event. It's awkward because there are other illegal characters and Sound Forge seems to change all of them to an underscore.Sound Forge shouldn't interfere with the file name. It should let Windows throw an error if there is an illegal character. I have a script that can change illegal characters existing in region names when exporting regions but can't use something similar in this case when Sound Forge clobbers the name beforehand.

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