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Questions / Re: Help with ripping and apostrophes
« on: September 24, 2021, 10:47:31 PM »
I did just this recently, whilst converting my entire library to MP3 for portable use after a fairly major re-ripping exercise (~600 discs). I use MediaMonkey for bulk file transcoding (blushes), and its MP3 tagger reports it cannot save tags with certain characters, and halts until you hit 'okay'. So it's handy to weed out illegal characters, like L/R single quotes, n-dashes, wacky double quotes, etc. that get downloaded from metadata engines.
I found the Tools/Tagging Tools/Search & Replace worked exactly as expected; it found the problem characters, and replaced them, reporting how many files it had modified (in the status bar). I do have the 'Additional Tagging Tools' plugin installed; not sure whether I'm using the stock tools, or the additional tools. checks: nope; I'm using the standard tools.
If I now try to find any L or R single quotes, none are found; I've already removed them.
Maybe you are not picking up the actual offending character; I picked it up using MS Word/Insert Character/Special character
My library is ~80k tracks, and the searches were pretty quick; just a few seconds.
I found the Tools/Tagging Tools/Search & Replace worked exactly as expected; it found the problem characters, and replaced them, reporting how many files it had modified (in the status bar). I do have the 'Additional Tagging Tools' plugin installed; not sure whether I'm using the stock tools, or the additional tools. checks: nope; I'm using the standard tools.
If I now try to find any L or R single quotes, none are found; I've already removed them.
Maybe you are not picking up the actual offending character; I picked it up using MS Word/Insert Character/Special character
My library is ~80k tracks, and the searches were pretty quick; just a few seconds.