1/29/2024 0 Comments Instaling beaTunesStubbornness: suggestions have been made before that I am not using MC "properly" and I don't deny it. MC is great, but a luxury yacht is overkill if all you need is a canoe I still use WinAmp occasionally on a laptop. The only reason I moved to MC was it was the best solution to have an active crossover. I was perfectly content with the ancient WinAmp and a video player such as VLC for my infrequent video watching. Some additional points: I know MC is a media player with an enormously rich set of features. Is it possible that there is some interaction between them? Might this info be in the logs file? I would think that separate libraries are, well, separate. That is why I was surprised this evening when, while Library=Keep was active, that I tried an import and the error message claimed a couple files in the INBOX directory. MC is configured to have two libraries with names parallel to the directories above. In theory at least, the files in this directory do not change. KEEP is intended to be the long-term keepers. Usually I end up renaming adding "(Group name)" to the file's name. But Windows always provides the dialog box. This does pose a risk of overwriting a file of the same name. If I want to keep a file, I use the control-C (copy) and then paste (via) windows explorer into the KEEP directory. INBOX is a directory containing a mess of files that, as the name might imply, are candidates to listen to and delete when I no longer want them. Beyond all doubt, these preliminaries have the greatest chance of screwing things up.īut these files at least pass a quick visual test (for the data) and then are copied into the INBOX tree. They are passed through Mp3Gain, MP3Tag to inspect tags and sometimes change file names to taste, and less often the insidious MusicBrainz Picard. What may depart from normality is that I have two separate directories of files and similarly named libraries:īefore "new" files are put into INBOX I will typically preen them on a separate PC. Quote from: Solderman on May 02, 2020, 07:57:08 pm I run a single PC with the attached USB drive. What do I need to do? Can you point me to where the "hidden" library files are stored? Should I just do a full uninstall and reinstall? Thanks. But much easier to delete those pesky files that I haven't found yet If there is no offered solution, I will do a complete un-install and re-install, set up my hardware, and then back up the fresh, empty "library" and could be a work-around. But I'd like to be able to wipe all record of what files MC was managing, and then let it read in a "new" library (I preen the files using 3rd party utilities). I have these settings saved (written down) so I can re-enter them manually if I must. I want to blow away the old library, everything (I would keep my device settings if possible because I have 8 channels of active EQ). Furthermore, it's not surprising since when you remove a library, MC says it won't delete your library or media files. No doubt this has a legitimate use, but it works against what I'm trying to use MC for. Now, pray tell, how can the program possibly know that there were external changes when a totally new library has been created? The only possible answer is that MC is doing some type of behind-the-scenes bookkeeping. Updated 43 files that had external changes. And, today, it "remembers" even if the old library is removed, a brand new library is created, and a directory's files are then imported into the supposedly new directory!!! As evidence, here's a snip from said import: One thing that is clear is that MC "remembers" what was in a library, even if all the files have been deleted. Yet this is a normal part of my usage I can't think of a satisfactory alternative to it. From an earlier problem thread a month or two back, about mysterious file name and tag changes, it was suggested that it was not a good idea to routinely delete and re-import the same files. I'm an avid MC user, but I don't rely heavily on the library or database features. I've done some searching and have not found a clear (or successful) answer to this question.
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