[AB]

I am curious as to what others are using for their dbPoweramp's - or other ripping SW's - file naming strings.
I'm using the dbPoweramp's default string.
Right now my files look like this...

01 Sarah Jarosz - Run Away

Pretty straight forward and it's only 26 characters long.
 
My issue is when the artist + the song title is too long and the resulting Path Length is greater than 260 characters. I know it's hard to imagine but I have seen 260+ character Path Lengths from this naming string and as a result my NAS throws errors and misbehaves.

So what are other folks using?

[glynnw]

track-  title - artist - album -length
Using NAS
I think I may have lost 1 or 2 tracks out of 20K+ due to length

[golfugh]

I've run into quite a few over 260 characters and have changed my naming convention to:

Track - Title

The metadata reflects all other information.

Mark

[toddbagwell]

I also ran into some problems with just using artist / title and long file names.

you can limit the length of artist or title or both by using the maxlength command

for example:

[album]\[track]-[MAXLENGTH]35,[title][]-[MAXLENGTH]20,[artist][]


todd

[AB]

Thanks for the info guys.
What I probably need are a few example strings and what they output.
I've never seen MAXLENGTH before and that might just solve my problem. But what does the result look like?

[toddbagwell]

some Bach Box Set tracks I ripped with the maxlength settings turned out like this with the tack number, album, artist with album and artist truncated to keep file names within reason.

12-BWV 702 Das Jesulein soll doch mein Trost-Johann Sebastian Bac

[AB]

I see. That's what I expected.
Thanks