Confirm Long File Name Bug in Player Object

[Klaus Major]

Hi all,

> Recently, Sivakatirswami  wrote:
>
>> Can someone quickly confirm this ( bugzilled already) ... a bit of a
>> serious problem for me at the moment:
>>
>> a) get an .mp3 file... any will do. Make sure the number of chars in
>> the file name (inclusive of extension) is < 33
>> ...
>> somefoo0123435678901234567890123456789.mp3
>>
>> ...
>> here, the player object is now simply "dead".... go back... truncate
>> the file name to <33 chars... try again... now it works..
>>
>
> Confirmed, as of November last year.
> Also, try adding special characters to the file name, such as "-"  
> or "(".
> These broke playback for me at the time.

like german umlauts and french accents...

> I would set this at Blocker status because it prevents playback of  
> otherwise
> playable media.
>
> Regards,
>
> Scott Rossi
> Creative Director
> Tactile Media, Multimedia & Design
> -----
> E: scott at tactilemedia.com
> W: http://www.tactilemedia.com

this is bug nr. 396 as of 2003-08-20 and it is still marked as NEW!?
C'mon RunRev!

http://support.runrev.com/bugdatabase/show_bug.cgi?id=396

Mark, i am sure you read this, this is not acceptable and a real blocker
especially in non english speaking countries like germany with its  
lots of
umlauts etc...

PLEASE resolve this one as soon as possible, PLEASE!!!


Regards

Klaus Major
klaus at major-k.de
http://www.major-k.de