Hi all,
I have a problem with the Windows limitation in path length while renaming my files with Foobar after tagging it. Unfortunately Foobar doesn't cut filename length when it is too long so it wont get copied/moved/renamed which is terrible for an automated process.
Scenario:
- Tag a classical album like "Leonard Bernstein - The Symphony Edition" with MusicBrainz
- Sample output is something like this (with my personal settings which are: %album artist% - (%date) - %album%\%tracknumber% - %title%) > I already shortened the %album% by hand and left out the %artist% in the file name but that wasn't enough:
Leonard Bernstein - (2010) - The Symphony Edition - CD 58 (Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.3 & 4)\06 - Symphony No.4 In F Minor, Op.36: I. Andante Sostenuto, Moderato Con Anima, Moderato Assai, Quasi Andante, Allegro Con Anima, Allegro Vivo
- some files like these will not get copied/renamed/moved due to 255 path length limitation and you will get an error.
How do you guys get around this problem without manually editing all file names (In this case 60 CDs!)?
My workaround described here by creating column that shows the overall path length:
$len(%album artist% - '('%date%')' - %album% %tracknumber% - %title%)
and than modifed only the ones that were to long. But thats really a pain.
Request: Foobar2000 should autmatically shorten file names ending with "..." (and show a warning of course)