Player will not play long file names!

[Eric Chatonet]

Hello Sivakatirswami,

A long time ago, when file names could not be more than 7 characters  
on Windows 3.x, Mac users were very proud with 31 characters allowed.
Since Windows turtle has made some progress, Mac OS hare no (private  
french joke :-).
It's not a Rev issue or a player either: Apple developers notes  
always say to avoid names longer than 31 characters :-(
Besides some apps truncate automatically too long names (have a look  
at MicroSoft software :-)

Le 17 juin 05 à 22:19, Sivakatirswami a écrit :

> Serious bug discovered:
>
> I'm pretty sure this just appeared in Mac OSX-Tiger / Rev 2.6
>
> I'm unable to set a player to an MPEG with a file name that is  
> longer than 32 characters long! Ouch.. I have set up an entire spec  
> for processing sound files and these files all have long file  
> names... :-(
>
> Can someone confirm this:
>
> Make a stack, create a player, give a foo.mp3 file a name with  
> 40Characters.mp3
>
> Now, try to set the player to that file with the long file name...  
> it doesn't work.
>
> Sannyasin Sivakatirswami
> Himalayan Academy Publications
> at Kauai's Hindu Monastery
> katir at hindu.org


Best Regards from Paris,

Eric Chatonet.
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