I am using Actions to automate setting of tags on Audio books. After upgrading to v2.85, one of my action is failing. It is based on taking Name of Author, Name of Book and Title of Track from directory and filename. After upgrade, Directory is not showing correct. Actually, it is just showing rubbish.
David Lagercrantz - Millennium 4 - Mannen som jaget sin egen skygge\CD01 Spor 01.mp3David Lagercrantz - Millennium 4 - Mannen som jaget sin egen skygge\CD01 Spor 02.mp3...
In Mp3tag, directory is listed like this:
U:\019WLJ~H\AOHHJQ~D\DGHULL~M\
It should be listed like this:
U:\0 New\AudioBooks\David Lagercrantz - Millennium 4 - Mannen som jaget sin egen skygge\
This was working on my previous version v2.84a. Can you please help me?
To me it looks as though you see the dos-compatible 8.3 filenames.
See this external forum on possible causes: https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums...onfigmgrgeneral
I do not think that it is a general MP3tag problem as I see all the filenames in the long version with 2.85a (on different OSs and machines).
I agree, except that this changes came after upgrading Mp3tag. Not after changing Windows settings. But I will look into your link and see if I find some tips.
I found references to such filenames also with Samba shares where certain options (like mangled filenames) have been set to yes.
Don't know whether you have assigned a permanent drive letter to a network share...
I have looked into this setting (disable8dot3), and it was set to '2 Per volume setting' (the default value). For 8.3-setting, it should have value set to 0. Anyway, I don't know if this will affect network share or not?
The drive I'm accessing is indeed a network share assigned to a permanent drive letter, but I'm not using Samba. The share is located on a Synology NAS running a proprietary linux version. I did not find any option on Synology NAS about mangled filenames or other settings that likely have anything to do with filenames.
But again, this problem occurred after upgrading Mp3tag. Nothing else have been changed to my system.
One extra observation, when I use Norwegian proprietary letters, like æ, ø or å in directory names, Mp3tag recognized this directory name in as normal, like this:
Local files and files from network share, are showed normally in Windows Explorer and in Total Commander, which I prefer.
By copying the directory to a local drive I got normal behavior in Mp3tag, even though I removed the Norwegian characters:
So it looks even more like a setting problem on the network drive which has nothing to do with MP3tag. It is the network share the reports back the shortened filenames.
I am afraid that you have to dig into the Synology support.
I cannot help you with it.
Thank you very much ohrenkino, this fix solved my problem
I still don't understand why this problem suddenly occurred, but as long as it works, I'm happy
