How may I workaround the Audio Tags replacement operating on other tags?

https://www.advancedrenamer.com/user_guide/v4/settings_renam ing says

"Replace Unsupported With
Determines what unsupported chars in Audio Tags should be replaced with.
"

Unfortunately on 4.13.00p this replacement is occurring on <File Line:n>! E.g. ':' in a file is replaced by (by default) '-'.

I reckon this must be a bug, but until its fixed, can anyone suggest a workaround?

There seems no way to disable this replacement.

Thanks.

Reply to #1:
It's not a bug. It's by design.

Many metadata, like timestamps, include values that are not supported on Windows. In order to use these values in something like the New Name method, the unsupported values must be replaced by something else. One could argue, that such values should be replaced by a Replace method further down the method list, but many users don't come to that conclusion on their own, so the software has to help out in this case.

Reply to #2:

> It's not a bug. It's by design.

Note that nothing in the User guide suggest this behaviour.

> One could argue, that such values should be replaced by a Replace method further down the method list but many users don't come to that conclusion on their own, so the software has to help out in this case.

Sure, but surely the best place to help is where its needed - at the rename - not in the tags which messes up non-filename use.

Reply to #3:
Don't worry. I will make sure the user guide gets updated.

It feels like you are trying to convince me to change the behavior of this functionality. It is not going to happen.

Reply to #4:

Thanks.

If you can suggest a workaround, that would be great.