Use of colon in file name

[DavidHB]

(11-09-2014 11:44)simoncn Wrote:  Windows (unlike Linux) doesn't allow the colon in filenames. Mp3tag is a Windows program, so it has no choice but to remove the colon. On Linux, there should be no problem if the filename contains a colon (unless you are using a Windows network share to access the file).

Indeed. But when files are accessed and copied across OS boundaries (an increasingly common circumstance), it is pretty much essential to use file names that are compatible with all the OSs used. While MP3Tag has no choice, as you say, what it does is also a sensible precaution for any multi-OS setup.

David