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#50 French and special characters
Hi,
the application is very good, I just have one request. Would it be possible to incorporate more characters? I have CDs that are in French and after ripping to MP3 the application did not load the files where the names had these characters (that is, the ones I have found so far) - À, è, Ê.
If they could be added, it would be great so that the file names do not have to be rewritten.
Thank you George
I also thought of a special character that I had in the title of a Merle Haggard album, which is the heart symbol in the album "I ♥ Country". So if it were possible to add this character, but it probably doesn't have to be that necessary.
I cannot make any updates without completely rewriting the whole thing from scratch. The software I used to write the user interface (Visual Basic 6) has been completely dead for years.
BUT I have a few options for you.
If you're not already using version 1.3.4 (the one still labeled "Beta" on the download page), that one should be able to load any file regardless of what characters are used in the filename. It's not a perfect solution: any non-Latin characters in the file names will appear as a "?" in the file list box inside MP3Gain. But it will correctly load and process all files.
I've had one person tell me that MP3Gain 1.3.4 did not solve their file-loading issues, so here's the other option. There are at least two other projects that re-wrote the interface for MP3Gain:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/wxmp3gain/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/qmp3gain/
Both of those projects use my original code for the actual mp3 file changes, so they should work the same, although I have not personally thoroughly tested either of them.