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Tagging your tracks properly.
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I came across this by mistake. I was helping a fellow broadcaster and found that if you have certain characters in your tags, it can play heck with your DJ Bot. It will affect things like skip a track and not play it to not updating whats playing in your widget. Characters that I have identified as causing a problem are ( ) and [ ]. So if you have these in your tags, you may want to clean them up. If anyone else has found others please share with everybody.
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I've used () and have not seen any issue however special characters like in Blue Oyster Cult and Motley Crue the U having the dots above it and the O in Oyster having the special symble above it messes with Loudcaster big time. This is another reason I'm taking advantage of the HD melt down I had to improve my labeling so as to not reak havoc with Loudcaster and too make a more professional acting station. Thanks for the attention to the square ones too Leo.
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I have some tracks with () and [], but I haven't noticed any problems. However, I have seen problems with tracks that have quotation marks in them ("). Those tracks wound up being skipped.
While we are on the subject of tagging, I wish we would be able to have proper characters for certain groups such as Queensryche and Motley Crue. Also, for Japanese bands it would be nice to put titles in that are Japanese since they are that way on the CD.
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