# What to do with foreign tunes **URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/what-to-do-with-foreign-tunes/42648 **Category:** General Discussion **Created:** [August 14, 2018, 8:33am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/what-to-do-with-foreign-tunes/42648 "2018-08-14T08:33:30Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 7
### Author: ![Zerow](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/zerow/32/11379_2.png) [@Zerow](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Zerow) #### Post date: [October 10, 2018, 6:14pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/what-to-do-with-foreign-tunes/42648/7 "2018-10-10T18:14:10Z")
> [@Zerow](#): > > [...] > [Geometric Shapes (Unicode block) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric_Shapes) and > [Block Elements - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_Elements) > [...] > [@ohrenkino](#): > > > [@Zerow](#): > > > > Having an illegal character in TITLE is bad idea, as you cannot duplicate it in FILENAME > > True. Yet there are so many characters in ordinary titles that are also not valid for various filesystems (e.g.\*, ?) > [...] > if you consider the various implications ... why do you suggest characters that can only very awkwardly be entered with the keyboard. My keyboard does not have a single block character on a readymade key. > Perhaps you have an idea that circumvents both drawbacks: valid character for the filename (if this should really be a criterion) and easily entered via the keyboard. We can use a very simple action to enter such chosen sign We can also use a very simple action to change something "enterable" from a keyboard like the `|` into e.g. `█`. And we do not even have to execute it every single time- if you have order and know what you are doing, you can run such an action from time to time on all of your files As for dealing with the common problem of `?` or `:` in TITLEs and FILENAMEs: [Title to Exactly Match Filename - #3 by Zerow](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/title-to-exactly-match-filename/18649/3) [but once again - and order / planning is required among your system / files] --- _[View the full topic](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/what-to-do-with-foreign-tunes/42648)._