Avoiding filename length errors?

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When tagging classical music I often come up against errors which I believe are something to do with long filenames.

Often I'll run an action group that transplants the Track No. & Title to the file name.

Is there a way I can add a action to that action group to restrict the length of the filename by cutting off any excess & just adding a "..." to the end of the filename?

Thanks.

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You may want to have a look at this thread on a similar problem:
Help with smart truncating of long filenames

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There is no restriction to the length of the filename but to the length of the whole path including the filename. (256 characters)
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365247.aspx

So maybe you should have a look at your path to the location of the filename.
Since windows XP I avoided a very long pathlength in not storing my mp3s in the windows standard-folder for music (C:\Documents and Settings\Sigrun\My Documents\My Music). This would already waste about 60 characters till reaching your personal extension of the path i.e.
\Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich\If Music Be the Food of Love... Prepare for Indigestion\11 - Dave, Dee, Dozy, Beakym Mick & Tich - Hair on My Chinny-Chin-Chin (Huff 'N' Puff).mp3)
The example represents a personal folder structure and file-naming of "\%artist%\%album%\%track% - %artist% - %title%".

Would you really like to have cut the filename to maybe "11 - Dave, Dee, Beaky, Mick ..."

I think my example makes clear that such conflicts need to be avoided manually and not automatic in shortening only the filename. You need to have a close look on the length of your complete path.

To do this:

  • Move your mp3s to a short path (i.e. E:\MP3s)
  • define a column with the name of "Path-Length" and the value of $len(%_filename_ext%%_folderpath%), so that you always have a problematic path-lenth in view.
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But still, there can be and issuse when burning copies to discs?

Depending software / setings used for burning?

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There are a lot of filesystem in this world. So there are a lot of different limits and for optical mediums it depend which kind of optical medium and which file-system you choose. (ISO 9660, Joliet, UDF)
Look yourself:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of..._systems#Limits