Player will not play long file names!

Klaus Major klaus at major-k.de
Sat Jul 2 12:36:26 EDT 2005


Hi Scott,

> Recently, Mark Waddingham  wrote:
>
>
>> As a work-around for this at the moment, try setting the filename of
>> a player to a *real* file URL:
>>  e.g. file:///Volumes/Primary/Users/mark/Desktop/
>> mask_with_a_really_really_really_long_filename.tiff
>>
>
> Thanks Mark:
>
> I'm still not clear on how to get this to work.  I've got a bunch  
> of audio
> files with long names and spaces in the their names.  I've tried  
> setting the
> fileNames to straight filenames, URLencoded filenames, etc, using  
> URL forms
> "file:" and "binfile:" and nothing seems to work.
>
> Am I missing something?

quick guess:

Do your pathnames start with "file:///Volumes..."
"VOLUMES" is not included in filenames on the boot hd.

> Regards,
>
> Scott Rossi
> Creative Director
> Tactile Media, Multimedia & Design
> -----
> E: scott at tactilemedia.com
> W: http://www.tactilemedia.com

Regards

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




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