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Why are mp3 (Napster) file names limited?
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Dec 29, 2000, 10:49 AM
 
In the Mac OS we've always been able to use full, long file names. Why are mp3 file names limited to 27 characters? Is ther a way around this?

Thanks,

Jeff
     
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Dec 29, 2000, 06:17 PM
 
Full long file names? No. . .I've always been limited to 27-character length. It's Windoze that let's you give your files novels-for-names.

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Dec 29, 2000, 07:35 PM
 
Disks are limited to 27. Its 31 for files.
Or are you talking about ID3 tags?

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Dec 29, 2000, 10:15 PM
 
Hopefully the OS X version of Napster will be updated to allow longer filenames.
     
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Dec 30, 2000, 01:57 PM
 
thanks for the info...
     
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Jan 1, 2001, 11:42 PM
 
OS X supports 255 character names on HFS+ disks and 256 on UFS disks... ya know... who needs a word processor when you can just write whatever you happen to be writing in a folder name?

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