XBMP (XBox Media Player)

Tracker: Feature Requests

5 Long file-names & funny characters support, FATX 2.x - ID: 697099

Last Update: Settings changed ( gamester17 )

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Hi!

Last night, I tried to copy my MP3s to my Xbox.
Although I used prexbcopy, I had to do some manual
"tuning".

But even if prexbcopy would have worked flawless, the
limitiation to 42 characters and the very limited
character set (excluding common characters like � or �)
is very annoying.

Would it be possible to add support for long file names
to an upcoming release of XBMP? I'm very aware that
the above mentioned problems are caused by the FATX
filesystem and not by XBMP. To circumvent this, I was
thinking if it might be possible to add something like
the TRANS.TBL found on (normal) ISO-Images.

Ie. a textfile containing a mapping of a short name to
a long name. It would be wonderful if XBMP could read
this file and then display the "file name" from this file.

So, suppose the following file:

FOO~1.mp3 The wonderful FOO song, performed by �rzte.mp3

Since I'm no C hacker, I can't implement something like
this myself. I could, however, write a Windows/Linux
program to create such translation files.

Submitted:

Alexander Skwar ( askwar ) - 2003-03-04 07:04

Priority:

Status:

Open

Resolution:

None

Assigned:

Nobody/Anonymous

Category:

New Feature/Function

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None

Visibility:

Public

Comments ( 6 )

Date: 2003-07-28 10:09 Sender: gamester17 Logged In: YES user_id=630186 Not sure if this info could be of any use for the developers but it is an interesting read never the less ;-) "Xbox FATX Hacking by Michael Steil ....there still a lot more possibilities. To name a few: * filenames with more than 41 characters (up to 255) * convert the partition to FATX32 * change cluster size * change number of FAT copies * more FAT errors" You can read the full article on Xbox-Linux site here: http://xbox-linux.sourceforge.net/articles.php? aid=2002173060621
Date: 2003-07-27 15:52 Sender: gamester17 Logged In: YES user_id=630186 Again, wonder when Avalaunch will release their FATX2 code?
Date: 2003-06-02 13:50 Sender: gamester17 Logged In: YES user_id=630186 Wonder when "Avalaunch" will release their FATX2 code ;) (If implemented then be very nice if integrated into FTP)
Date: 2003-03-04 11:31 Sender: askwar Logged In: YES user_id=1428 Another reason for this feature (or against network): It's easy to take the Xbox to other places. These places might not have network access - however the harddisk is always there.
Date: 2003-03-04 11:29 Sender: askwar Logged In: YES user_id=1428 No, XBMP's built-in FTP server should not create such a file. The FTP server should behave like it behaves now. It should be the responsibility of the user to create such a file and to upload files which Xbox can handle. I was merely thinking, that Xbox should read the translation file. Regarding playing over network: I'm mainly using Linux and the Linux streaming servers suck in comparison to the Windows servers (feature wise). So network isn't really a viable solution. And also, I don't want to have the server running just because I'd like to watch a movie or listen to some music. And lastly, the best network option (SMB) does not work very well in XBMP. I'm actually somewhat disappointed by the network performance of XBMP wrt. this.
Date: 2003-03-04 10:30 Sender: gamester17 Logged In: YES user_id=630186 Do not think this is fiesable to do from XBMP when putting things on the Xbox harddrive, but I could be wrong. The thing you are describing is like you say not an XBMP limitation, it's a limitation with the Xbox file system (a.k.a. FAT-X), if you play a file over the network from PC which has FAT32 or NTFS you will not see this problem so that is at least a workaround if you do not want to rename your files. just my 2 cents

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Field	Old Value	Date	By
summary	Long file-names & funny characters support	2003-09-11 11:10	gamester17
summary	Long File Names & Funny characters support	2003-07-28 10:09	gamester17
summary	Support for Long File Names/"Funny" characters in XBMP?	2003-07-27 15:52	gamester17
summary	Support for Long File Names/"Funny" characters in XBMP?	2003-03-04 11:31	askwar
summary	Support for Long File Names/"Funny" characters in XBMP?	2003-03-04 11:29	askwar
summary	Support for Long File Names/"Funny" characters in XBMP?	2003-03-04 10:30	gamester17

XBMP (XBox Media Player)

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