I agree that for shells, some scripting languages and the like, file names with punctuation and other special characters can be challenging. But Sonos doesn't

I agree that for shells, some scripting languages and the like, file names with punctuation and other special characters can be challenging. But Sonos doesn't have to do any "handling" here - the user never gets to interact with the network paths/file names so they should (I think) be treated as opaque identifiers.