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#17 ??? in file stops scanning
Just validated about 650 Gb of MP3 files, marvelous tool. I found that every now and then scanning froze - halted.
Reason seems to be a filename containing one or more ? (question marks) or 'weird' characters e.g. Ivo Robić.
Since this is only in about 0.005% of the mp3 files I gladly removed the filenames from list and went on, just thought i would mention it.
I got the same problem, but with filename with charecter "ß". I need stop scan, delete it from list and scan again.
As a short term fix, I would suggest at least skipping these files if unicode characters are not supported, so that scanning can continue. Leave the status of the file as NOT SCANNED, and add a message indicating that the filename is not supported because of characters it contains.
This is an old thread - apparently this issue has not been addressed? I just used MP3Val today, and it hung on foreign characters and ??? in the filre name. I renamed the files and then the app worked. But having some sore of error handling instead of hanging would be helpful.