Direct Paths and illegal characters in SMB path

[mvanbaak]

I finally took the time to setup my music library as well using direct paths.
While scanning, I saw the following errors in the kodi log:

13:43:34.600 T:1217917856  NOTICE: VideoInfoScanner: Finished scan. Scanning for video info took 00:00
13:43:34.865 T:1234695072 WARNING: Process directory 'smb://vanbaakds509/video/Music/Atari Teenage Riot/Is This Hyperreal ?/' does not exist - skipping scan.
13:43:35.149 T:1234695072 WARNING: Process directory 'smb://vanbaakds509/video/Music/Children of Bodom/Are You Dead Yet?/' does not exist - skipping scan.
13:43:35.332 T:1234695072 WARNING: Process directory 'smb://vanbaakds509/video/Music/Deadmau5/while(1<2)/CD 1/' does not exist - skipping scan.
13:43:35.335 T:1234695072 WARNING: Process directory 'smb://vanbaakds509/video/Music/Deadmau5/while(1<2)/CD 2/' does not exist - skipping scan.
13:43:36.069 T:1234695072 WARNING: Process directory 'smb://vanbaakds509/video/Music/Oasis/(What's The Story) Morning Glory?/' does not exist - skipping scan.
13:43:36.457 T:1308619680   ERROR: SMBDirectory->GetDirectory: Unable to open directory : 'smb://USERNAME:PASSWORD@vanbaakds509/video/Music/Atari%20Teenage%20Riot/Is%20This%20Hyperreal%20%3f'
                                            unix_err:'16' error : 'Invalid argument'
13:43:36.457 T:1308619680   ERROR: GetDirectory - Error getting smb://vanbaakds509/video/Music/Atari Teenage Riot/Is This Hyperreal ?/
13:43:38.741 T:1464017824  NOTICE: PLEX.librarysync -> Processed view
13:43:38.754 T:1464017824  NOTICE: PLEX.librarysync -> Movies sync is finished.
13:43:38.766 T:1464017824  NOTICE: PLEX.utils -> It took 0:00:04.306197 to run the function PlexMovies
13:43:38.767 T:1464017824  NOTICE: PLEX.librarysync -> Media folders for Music: [{'itemtype': u'artist', 'kodi_tagid': 2, 'id': u'3', 'sync_to_kodi': 1, 'name': u'Music'}]
13:43:38.833 T:1308619680   ERROR: SMBDirectory->GetDirectory: Unable to open directory : 'smb://USERNAME:PASSWORD@vanbaakds509/video/Music/Children%20of%20Bodom/Are%20You%20Dead%20Yet%3f'
                                            unix_err:'16' error : 'Invalid argument'
13:43:38.833 T:1308619680   ERROR: GetDirectory - Error getting smb://vanbaakds509/video/Music/Children of Bodom/Are You Dead Yet?/
13:43:40.119 T:1308619680   ERROR: SMBDirectory->GetDirectory: Unable to open directory : 'smb://USERNAME:PASSWORD@vanbaakds509/video/Music/Deadmau5/while(1%3c2)/CD%201'
                                            unix_err:'16' error : 'Invalid argument'
13:43:40.119 T:1308619680   ERROR: GetDirectory - Error getting smb://vanbaakds509/video/Music/Deadmau5/while(1<2)/CD 1/
13:43:40.123 T:1308619680   ERROR: SMBDirectory->GetDirectory: Unable to open directory : 'smb://USERNAME:PASSWORD@vanbaakds509/video/Music/Deadmau5/while(1%3c2)/CD%202'
                                            unix_err:'16' error : 'Invalid argument'
13:43:40.123 T:1308619680   ERROR: GetDirectory - Error getting smb://vanbaakds509/video/Music/Deadmau5/while(1<2)/CD 2/
13:43:48.930 T:1308619680   ERROR: SMBDirectory->GetDirectory: Unable to open directory : 'smb://USERNAME:PASSWORD@vanbaakds509/video/Music/Oasis/(What%27s%20The%20Story)%20Morning%20Glory%3f'
                                            unix_err:'16' error : 'Invalid argument'
13:43:48.930 T:1308619680   ERROR: GetDirectory - Error getting smb://vanbaakds509/video/Music/Oasis/(What's The Story) Morning Glory?/
13:43:59.273 T:1234695072  NOTICE: My Music: Scanning for music info using worker thread, operation took 00:24

Looks like PKC is unable to handle some characters in the paths ;-)

Kodi 17.3 on libreelec 8.0.2
PKC 1.8.0
PMS: 1.7.1

I have setup path mapping in PKC:
/mnt/mvanbaaknas/Music -> smb://vanbaakds509/video/Music

[croneter]

The question mark ? in your file path is the problem. As I have a windows machine which doesn't allow that, this is going to take some time

[mvanbaak]

Yeah, I figured it's the ? the < characters. It's ok if this takes some time, no worries.

[croneter]

Sorry, bad news: https://github.com/croneter/PlexKodiConnect/wiki/Troubleshooting-Direct-Paths

You need to replace these characters altogether if you want to use direct paths...