README nitpicks about cyanrip HOT 4 CLOSED

Another problem, how can I embed ':' in my tags? Tried 1 or 2 backslash but it did nothing.

from cyanrip.

Scratch 2), didn't see that the keys were case insensitive.

from cyanrip.

The quotes are definitely not passed on in tags. They don't even make it to cyanrip as the shell simply removes them. Is your terminal doing something weird and outputting non-ASCII quotes which aren't escaped? I know OSX handles quotes in a weird way where they're converted to Unicode quote start/end characters.
The quotes are only there to remind users its an easy way to escape spaces, so if your terminal does something weird, you can just use a backslash to escape it, like -a written\ letter. Hopefully, if at least backslashes are ASCII.

The tag keys are automatically translated and converted by FFmpeg to the format's native keys. So for Ogg they're uppercased and renamed, for MP4 some keys are renamed, and so on, and where possible, they're passed on as-is, otherwise they're dropped. FFmpeg's tag key convention thankfully matches what a lot of formats use and follows logic.

-a album_artist="some artist":album="SOME\:ALBUM" -t 1=artist="gibberish":title="other\:name" works for me.
There's a bug I found where the lazy way of -a "title":"artist" is problematic when the title contains a : which I don't think I can feasibly fix without scrapping the lazy syntax (which really saves me time).
As a workaround, for track or album titles that contain a :, specify some other tag before it, like -t date="2009-09-09":title="A\:SYS". Or just the same tag twice, as the second time the tag is mentioned it'll overwrite the first one's contents. -t 1=title="will not be recorded":title="actual title" or just -t 1="will not be recorded":title="actual title".

from cyanrip.

Yeah, confused the backticks with single quotes while looking at the readme in emacs; which obviously made the double quotes go through. I only tried using the lazy title syntax, good to know the "proper" way works, then.

from cyanrip.