Transliterate paths to restricted ASCII

[michael....@gmail.com]

I feel an urge to have paths that are made up of a rather restricted set of characters, something like [a-zA-Z0-9_-.]. I'm not really sure if this is a good idea. It mainly appeals to me, I think, because it's easier to work with that kind of paths on the command line.

On the command line, I can get most of the transliteration I need from iconv like this

$ echo "Schürig" | iconv -t ASCII//translit

Schuerig

As far as I can tell, beets doesn't have a suitable hook for this kind of conversion. Are there any others who would like such a feature? Do you think that I'm mistaken in wanting it?

Michael

[Michael MacLeod]

Michael,

You want to use the "asciify" command in your path settings. Here's my
singleton path:
singleton: %asciify{Non-Album/$artist_sort - $title}

It's simple and it works.

Regards,
Mike

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[michael....@gmail.com]

Mike,

thanks for pointing out asciify. I'm surplussed, however, how I could have missed it. I've read the docs and I've read the code and still I didn't notice it.

Michael