WinAmp

[katlon]

I spent most of my spare time for years trying to work on getting my weather pages to offer what most people in my area wanted. Now I am streaming music to the internet through Winamp and Icecast.  Pretty much the same setup I use to stream the NOAA Weather Radio. I am using a script that generates a .png file that shows what is the "current playing" song. Here is where the problem is. When the .png file is generated every word that has an ' (apostrophe) in it gets shown as /'. I need to know what I can do to get rid of the /. I can post the script if that would help someone help figure out how to get rid of this little devil. Below is the link to the png generated image. If you don't see what I am talking about just wait a few minutes and I am sure a song will come along that shows the problem. Thanks for any help.

Lonnie

http://pulliamjr.com/gen_httppost/output.png

[jay_hoehn]

Not to be the bearer of bad news, but have you paid the royalty fee to be able to do this.  The fine if you haven't can be very steep.

Jay

[katlon]

This is a plugin listed on Winamps pages. The guy who listed it did it in 2006. I have emailed him for info but haven't received any returns.

Lonnie

[WeatherHost]

You're asking for a whole lot of legal problems and financial hurtin' if you don't own the rights.

[xykotik]

By "script" do you mean something interpretive and server-side like perl or php?  Here are a couple of blurbs that might get you moving in the right direction.  It sounds like essentially you want to replace a specific character with a null or a space to mitigate the illegal character fault.  If this doesn't help, it's the only idea I have.  I remember this from an "Upper-Case/Lower-Case" issue I once had.

http://www.w3schools.com/php/func_string_str_replace.asp

http://www.misc-perl-info.com/perl-arrays.html

[kray1000]

I am using a script that generates a .png file that shows what is the "current playing" song. Here is where the problem is. When the .png file is generated every word that has an ' (apostrophe) in it gets shown as /'. I need to know what I can do to get rid of the /. I can post the script if that would help someone help figure out how to get rid of this little devil.

It's actually a backslash (\) that appears before the apostrophe.  Almost sounds like the script might be coded to use an escape character when it doesn't need to.

Posting the portion of the script that prints the text on the graphic might be helpful.