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searching for ’

so, basically, sometimes some of my files get tagged with the ’ character instead of ', and that sometimes gets by me, and it irks me. dunno why, i simply don't want the ’ character to be used anywhere since i can always use the '.

now the thing is, i wanted to search my entire library for all files which contain the ’ character in the tags, but when i search it in foobar, foobar immediately searches for ' instead. aka, when i write, or paste, the ’ character in foobar search it's automatically written as ', therefore rendering me unable to search for the ’ character.

so, why is this and how do i avoid, since i would really want to find (and replace) all the ’ characters with '.

thanks in advance

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Reply #1 –
Seems to work for me.
Library > Search.
Windows 10 Pro x64 // foobar2000 1.3.10

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Reply #2 –
I can't help if you're trying to fix it with Foobar, but i know Mp3Tag can fix it for you easily enough.

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Reply #3 –
Quote from: Andreasvb on
Seems to work for me.
Library > Search.


lucky you, but for me it just doesn't want to work. it's always converted to '. however, if i search for ` or ´, it works. but ’ is simply ignored and converted to '.

Quote from: andrew_berge on
I can't help if you're trying to fix it with Foobar, but i know Mp3Tag can fix it for you easily enough.


i know that too, however, loading 80k files into mp3tag is not a desirable option :\

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Reply #4 –
Yea, it was not same character, I tried with regular ´ which wasn't the same apparently.

I, too, use Mp3tag for correcting spelling errors.
You can load some at a time and make Replace-actions so it fixes it automatically. At least something.

Windows 10 Pro x64 // foobar2000 1.3.10
 

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Reply #5 –
Quote from: foolver on
i know that too, however, loading 80k files into mp3tag is not a desirable option :\


I hope you don't mean that all 80k songs have this error 
Search for ’ in foobar, select all the files it returns, and drag them into the Mp3Tag window.
That should reduce the number of files quite a bit.

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Reply #6 –
Have you tried a query like
Code: [Select]
NOT "$strcmp(%artist%,$replace(%artist%,´,'))" IS 1
which should find all tracks with ´ in the artist field? Unfortunately that scheme only works for one tag (%artist%, %title%, %album%, ...) at a time.

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Reply #7 –
foosion, if I understand it correctly, OP wants to replace right single quotation mark (’) with apostrophe ('). You use acute accent in the example (´).
It should look like this:

Code: [Select]
NOT "$strcmp(%artist%,$replace(%artist%,’,'))" IS 1

... but nothing happens here when testing (I altered of course a couple of tags beforehand for the purpose).

FWIW:
' Unicode Character 'Apostrophe' Alt 39 / Alt 039
’ Unicode Character 'Right single quotation mark' Alt +2019
´ Unicode Character 'Acute accent' Alt 0180. Should normally not be used as a "stand alone" char, but only in combination with e.g. a, e, o, i: á, é, ó, í.

For the moment the suggested solution involving dragging the affected files to Mp3tag and defining a replace action seems to be the way to go.

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Reply #8 –
Oops, you're right. The goal of my approach was to narrow down the list of affected files.

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Reply #9 –
although library search doesn't treat it differently, normal title formatting does. try creating a new album list view like this...

Code: [Select]
$if($strstr(%artist%%album%%title%,’),bad,good)|%artist% - %title%

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Reply #10 –
Good idea. I think the problem with the query comes from the feature that allows you to leave out diacritics from search terms.