diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 22af1d7..8e0e728 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -97,6 +97,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "itertools",
  "mime",
  "protobuf",
+ "sanitise-file-name",
  "ureq",
  "webp",
 ]
@@ -604,6 +605,12 @@ dependencies = [
  "webpki",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "sanitise-file-name"
+version = "1.0.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "19d36299972b96b8ae7e8f04ecbf75fb41a27bf3781af00abcf57609774cb911"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "scoped_threadpool"
 version = "0.1.9"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index e3029b6..7e2877b 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ blurhash = "0.1.1"
 base64 = "0.13.0"
 mime = "0.3.16"
 protobuf = "3.1.0"
+sanitise-file-name = "1.0.0"
 
 [dependencies.iota-crypto]
 version = "0.13.0"
diff --git a/src/main.rs b/src/main.rs
index efb21b5..0120aa7 100644
--- a/src/main.rs
+++ b/src/main.rs
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ use errors::AviaryError;
 use itertools::{Itertools, Either};
 use parse::{CreateArgs, Command, DownloadArgs};
 use ::protobuf::Message;
+use sanitise_file_name::sanitise_with_options;
 
 fn trim_url<'a>(base_url: &str, url: &'a str) -> Option<&'a str> {
 	if url.starts_with(base_url) {
@@ -156,6 +157,23 @@ fn create(server: &str, args: CreateArgs) {
 	}
 }
 
+const SANITIZATION_OPTIONS: sanitise_file_name::Options<fn(char) -> Option<char>> = sanitise_file_name::Options {
+	length_limit: 127,
+	reserve_extra: 0,
+	extension_cleverness: false,
+	most_fs_safe: true,
+	windows_safe: true,
+	url_safe: false,
+	normalise_whitespace: false,
+	trim_spaces_and_full_stops: true,
+	trim_more_punctuation: false,
+	remove_control_characters: true,
+	remove_reordering_characters: false,
+	replace_with: |_| Some('_'),
+	collapse_replacements: true,
+	six_measures_of_barley: "Unnamed-Album"
+};
+
 fn download(server: &str, args: DownloadArgs) {
 	let mut download_buffer = Vec::with_capacity(5_000_000);
 	let mut decrypt_buffer = Vec::with_capacity(5_000_000);
@@ -173,10 +191,10 @@ fn download(server: &str, args: DownloadArgs) {
 		.expect("malformed index");
 
 	let dest_dir: Cow<Path> = args.output.map(Cow::Owned)
-		.unwrap_or_else(|| Cow::Borrowed(
-			index.title.as_ref()
-				.map(String::as_str)
-				.unwrap_or("Unnamed-Album").as_ref()));
+		.unwrap_or_else(||
+			index.title.map(|title|
+				Cow::Owned(sanitise_with_options(&title, &SANITIZATION_OPTIONS).into()))
+			.unwrap_or(Cow::Borrowed("Unnamed-Album".as_ref())));
 	fs::create_dir_all(&dest_dir).expect("Failed to create destination directory");
 	for (indx, image) in index.images.into_iter().enumerate() {
 		let path = dest_dir.join(format!("{indx:03}.webp"));