strip_invalid_entities

Strip a albumname or artistname string to prepare it for calculating the media art path with it.

Certain characters and charactersets will be stripped and a newly allocated string returned which you must free with g_free.

This functions is used internally by get_file and get_path. You will not normally need to call it yourself.

This function provides the following features: 1. Invalid characters include: ()[]<>{}_!@#$^&*+=|\/"'?~; 2. Text inside brackets of ( ), {}, [] and <> pairs are removed. 3. Multiples of space characters are removed.

Parameters:

original

original string

Returns:

original stripped of invalid characters which must be freed. On error or if original is empty, null is returned.