Better handling of case-only renaming under WINE

[Quppa]

Mp3tag works very well for me under WINE, but I often get stung by files not being renamed when only the case changes when running Tag -> Filename etc.

Would it be possible to implement a change to the renaming logic along the lines of:

if lower(old_name) != lower(new_name):
  move_file(old_name, new_name)
else:
  move_file(old_name, temp_name)
  move_file(temp_name, new_name)

?

This should be safe across case-sensitive and case-insensitive file systems.

Earlier topics:

[X] File Name Case Conversion

I have noticed that lately, the command I created to change the filename to all Uppercase text and Lowercase extension is not working for all the files. It used to work perfectly a couple updates back (not sure what update number). Has anyone else encountered this issue?

Rename Files When Only Changing Case

I am attempting to rename files, but when only changing case (not any characters) the program states that the file already exists. i.e. - File name is: Joe Smith - A Great Day At The Beach and I retag and want to rename to: Joe Smith - A Great Day At the Beach How do I get the program to recognize the change in case of the word "the" and rename?

[ohrenkino]

If you have a standardized naming pattern then you could create an action that renames the file in 2 steps_

1. Format value for _FILENAME, Format string: %_filename%_
2. Format value for _FILENAME, Format string: your naming pattern

[Quppa]

Thanks, I'll try out an action. Right now I just stick some dummy char at the end of my format string, do the rename, remove the dummy char and do the rename again - would be nice if the product handled this case automatically so the Tag -> filename button works out of the box.

[ohrenkino]

@Quppa

if the product handled this case automatically

Or that the emulator would adopt the case and write it accurately to the filename ...

[Quppa]

Yes, but I appreciate why WINE has to do it like this, sitting in userspace and not caring about filesystem specifics. Windows gets to let the NTFS driver handle it.

[AreDigg]

Isn’t that the same issue in Windows proper as well? Often when I rename something in Windows, if there are only case changes it will not do anything.

[Quppa]

Windows Explorer and move and ren via the command prompt work properly with case-only filename changes with Windows 11 25H2, but this definitely wasn't always the case. Mp3tag also works correctly under Windows.