Character replacement for Tag—Filename?

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EAC can do this: Replace unsupported characters for filename creation. Surely, this is already part of MP3Tag, and I just can't find it?

I have any number of song titles with characters that cannot be used in a file name (colon, semicolon, double quotes, question marks, and more. In my case, EAC converts these to a circumflex (^) when creating file names from metadata found online. I subsequently use those file names are used to populate tags in MP3Tag. The tags are then used to simplify long file names for my music library (I use %artist% - %title%).

For a variety of reasons, I often find myself having to manually reinsert that circumflex into file names, as it gets lost when special characters are present in the %title% field of my tags. This is a hassle.

MP3Tag can selectively replace unsupported characters when creating file names from tags, can it not?

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Have a look at the scripting functions and especially $validate() and $replace().

$validate() can be used to replace any invalid character in filename-building with 1 defined character.
$replace can be used to replace any invalid invidual character with defined characters.

i.e
$validate(%artist% - %title%,^)
$replace(%artist% - %title%,:, -, *,+ ..... pairs of unvalid characters and characters that should replace them seperated by a comma)

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Seems the sort of thing that should be coded into the UI.

I appreciate the link, but it just provides a list of commands. I've no idea how to implement scripting for MP3Tag.

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Even without these special functions you will get only valid filenames.
These functions are available for those who require a special treatment.
And if you create a corresponding action then you have it in the UI.

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Please don't shy away from the word "scripting".

You are already using "scripting" because you are obviously working with the converter and the format string %artist% - %title%.
Then why should it be difficult to take my 1st example and instead of your format string
%artist% - %title%
simply write
$validate(%artist% - %title%,^)
and you already have the result that your software EAC has also written so far.

With the variant $replace() you are able (if you want) to act a little more individually and not replace every invalid character with the same character but use an individual character for replacement in each case.

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