Cannot open any file with a hyphenate name
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#32 Cannot open any file with a hyphenate name
No files with hyphenate titles can be opened. Every one gives a "Cannot open input file... or it is empty" error.
File titles like "Devo - Shrivel Up.mp3" are fine, but "Devo - Shrivel-Up.mp3" cause an error. Every single mp3 with a hyphen placed between two words without spaces gives an error and locks up the scan.
Unfortunately neither mp3val itself nor the frontend can handle file names with letters that are not included in the traditional (read: very old) Latin-1 8-bit character set. There are several open tickets for this since 2010. It shouldn't be too hard to implement proper handling of Unicode... but the last update of mp3val was in 2009 so this project is probably dead.
Last edit: nichtich 2026-08-17