diff --git a/pkgs/additional/sane-scripts/src/sane-tag-music b/pkgs/additional/sane-scripts/src/sane-tag-music
index 672428248..5eec2c3dd 100755
--- a/pkgs/additional/sane-scripts/src/sane-tag-music
+++ b/pkgs/additional/sane-scripts/src/sane-tag-music
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ def clean_for_loose_compare(a: str) -> str:
     # goal is to help merge path-extracted tags with embedded tags.
     # it's common for a tag to have some rich characters which can't be represented in a file.
     # so just remove rich characters, but in a way which doesn't become useless when faced with primarily non-latin names
-    omitable = '.- &()[];:'
+    omitable = '.- &()[];:/'
     unomitable = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789'
 
     a = "".join(c for c in a if c not in omitable)
@@ -133,6 +133,7 @@ def clean_for_fs(a: str, single_field: bool=False) -> str:
     a = romanize(a)
     a = a.strip()
     a = a.replace(" ", ".")
+    a = a.replace("/", ".")
     if single_field:
         a = a.replace("-", ".")
 
@@ -140,6 +141,9 @@ def clean_for_fs(a: str, single_field: bool=False) -> str:
 
     while ".." in a:
         a = a.replace("..", ".")
+    while a.startswith("."):
+        # files which start with `.` are hidden on the fs, so don't do that
+        a = a[1:]
     return a
 
 def clean_fields_for_fs(a: list[str], single_fields: bool=True) -> str: