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      daveros13
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      A recent update to Strawberry seems to have caused this: any time I play a song that's in a folder ("directory" in Linux, which I use) with an apostrophe in it, an error message appears regarding the album cover image, even though the image appears in the background just fine and the track plays with no problems.

      For 100% of albums I have a local "Cover.jpg" and use no download services whatsoever for album covers; each track's properties says: "Cover from file:///home/[user]/Music/[artist]/[album]/Cover.jpg".

      This happens for artist names like "Destiny's Child" and album names like "Devil's Night", but doesn't react this way to individual filenames with apostrophes. If I remove apostrophes from folder names, the error message doesn't come up at all.

      This website isn't letting me upload the photo I've taken (is it because I use Zen?), but the error message is:

      Execution of 'cp -a /home/[username]/Music/[artist]/[album]/Cover.jpg /run/user/1000/AlbumArt/song-art/[long number starting with R3SongArt]' failed:
      
      Text ended before matching quote was found for '.
      

      This indicates the program is telling Linux to copy the Cover.jpg file into another directory -- is that expected behaviour?

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        jonas @daveros13
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        @daveros13
        This error message isn't from strawberry, it doesn't copy the album cover like that, and doesn't use the 'cp' command. Seems like some sort of script that is set up to copy the cover when strawberry changes song, maybe listening to D-Bus for song change.

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          daveros13 @jonas
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          @jonas Good call -- I've traced it to the Linux applet Enhanced Sound, as removing that from the panel resolves it instantly! Thanks, I'll get onto claudiux about it, as I thought I'd turned off any features that involve music players...

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