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Troubles with ? and / and some videos not being added.


Posted: 15 Mar 2021 02:00
Damorsoft
Posts: 20
Joined: 2020-08-14

Question marks, windows does not support ? in a file name..

Now on Kodi I can manually add the ? mark and all is well However....
Toby Keith - How Do You Like Me Now?!
Toby Keith - Who's Your Daddy?
Shania Twain - Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under?
Linda Ronstadt - When Will I Be Loved?
4 Non Blondes - What's Up?
Bonnie Tyler - Have You Ever Seen the Rain?
----Windows does not support / in a file name
Linda McCartney - Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey
The New Seekers - Pinball Wizard / See Me Feel Me
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Kodi does not move the + to the library????
Mike + The Mechanics - All I Need Is A Miracle

Files that just do not track to my library
this one is in the db as
Olivia Newton-John - If You Love Me, Let Me Know
but was renamed as below and it worked..
Olivia Newton-John - If You Love Me (Let Me Know).mp4
Still fighting with these 3.

Bee Gees - New York Mining Disaster 1941
Supertramp - It's Raining Again
Guns N' Roses - Since I Don't Have You

Posted: 17 Mar 2021 13:03
zag
Posts: 229
Joined: 2020-07-14

Try using HTML encoding for special characters on our API

Posted: 19 Mar 2021 15:12
Damorsoft
Posts: 20
Joined: 2020-08-14

Do you have an example of this technique?

I am not sure what you mean.



Posted: 26 Mar 2021 09:57
zag
Posts: 229
Joined: 2020-07-14

Try this, not sure if it works but gives an idea

https://www.theaudiodb.com/forum_topic.php?t=56&s=0#last

It may simply be a kodi encoding issue though which we can't really control.


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