Indexing issue - tracks missing
Hello,
I use XLD on Mac OSX to rip my CD's on my NAS.
I have a lot of CD's containing DJ sets with multiple tracks. This week I realised some tracks are missing in the index of the album. Very annoying because the songs must play consecutively without gaps. In such a case, missing tracks spoil totally the listening experience.
I have found the problem: tracks containing ? , * and " are simply not indexed. Suddenly I'm confronted with the huge work of reviewing over 10,000+ tracks already ripped to see what's missing? I can delete the index an reindex as much as I want, they won't show if they are not re-tagged in order to remove these punctuation marks.....
My questions are:
- which punctuation marks are forbidden apart from the ones I already mentioned? Is there a list?
- Is there a easier way to remove these without having to check personally every **** tag?
Thank you for answering
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Official comment
Hello Jurgen,
The BluOS Support Crew will be looking to see with we can help you with this by starting a support request with you, so we can get some additional details.
Thanks for your patience!
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Hello Jesse,
I already found the solution.
I switched programs. To split music files with a cuesheet, I use Medieval CUE splitter now instead of XLD for Mac. No problems anymore with the above mentioned characters.
I was using the filenames as tags. Punctuation marks like /, ?, * and " apparently can cause problems if you are working on an Applecomputer. They appear in the tags 'title' and 'artist' in a format that doesn't allow them to be indexed. Once removed from the filename itself, ptoblem is solved. And with the cuesplitter program, it is not a problem anymore.
Maybe you can document this for Apple users? It's a stupid little thing, but can cause many indexing problems.
Anyway, thank you very much for your quick reply. Help & support is much appreciated.
best regards
Jurgen
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