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MC21: Windows v. Mac
glynor:
--- Quote from: shAf on September 10, 2015, 02:16:29 pm ---Thanks Glynor ... I believe I know what you mean regarding "strange" but it's also relative to,what one is used to. I find it nice to be able to edit the file system from within MC for Windows such that MC's catalog can update automatically, while there's no equivalent for the Mac version.
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This is not correct. Auto-Import works EXACTLY the same way on OSX as it does on Windows, as do External Encoders. I don't know what you're talking about.
As I said before, please explain directly and explicitly what you're looking to accomplish (almost certainly in a separate thread) without assuming that you've already "figured it out".
shAf:
--- Quote from: glynor on September 10, 2015, 02:54:34 pm ---This is not correct. Auto-Import works EXACTLY the same way on OSX as it does on Windows, as do External Encoders. I don't know what you're talking about.
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I wasn't speaking of "auto-import" ... I was speaking of "Locate=>On disk (within MC)" such that file system editing (file renaming, file moving, folder ops, etc) can be accomplished within MC such that these changes are internally monitored and automatically updated ...
--- Quote ---As I said before, please explain directly and explicitly what you're looking to accomplish (almost certainly in a separate thread) without assuming that you've already "figured it out".
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I was about to go thru the procedure for setting up an external encoder for file conversions. The dialog is identical to MC for Windows so I imagine I won't have any problems with it ... EXCEPT, I cannot seem to find a version of QAAC for the Mac. Research reveals that Finder can convert but the files needs to be in wave format first. Is anyone familiar with converting typical audio formats to AAC with MC/Mac (other than, of course, resorting to iTunes)??
blgentry:
--- Quote from: shAf on September 11, 2015, 08:02:52 am ---I wasn't speaking of "auto-import" ... I was speaking of "Locate=>On disk (within MC)" such that file system editing (file renaming, file moving, folder ops, etc) can be accomplished within MC such that these changes are internally monitored and automatically updated ...
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Yeah, so the "Drives" part of MC isn't present on MC for mac, so you can't navigate the file system from inside of MC. Like you said, you can do "Locate on disk external", but then any changes you make aren't synced because you're outside of MC! But there are several supported ways to change file names within MC. The best is the Rename, Move, and Copy tool. If you haven't used it, you should. It is awesome!
http://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Rename,_Move,_and_Copy_Files
The other way I know of, is to use the Tagging Pane. From Tagging, you can edit the file name and MC will change it in it's database AND on disk. You can use expressions here too, which is convenient.
--- Quote ---I was about to go thru the procedure for setting up an external encoder for file conversions. The dialog is identical to MC for Windows so I imagine I won't have any problems with it ... EXCEPT, I cannot seem to find a version of QAAC for the Mac. Research reveals that Finder can convert but the files needs to be in wave format first. Is anyone familiar with converting typical audio formats to AAC with MC/Mac (other than, of course, resorting to iTunes)??
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Hmm. There are quite a few GUI based file converters for Mac designed for sound files. Switch, Burn, XLD can all do it. There are more too. But you want a command line tool called from within MC? I did a few minutes of research and didn't find anything definitive. Doesn't FFMpeg include an AAC conversion tool? Yeah, it looks like it can:
https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Encode/AAC
Brian.
glynor:
There are all sorts of command line tools for OSX. Probably the best way to get them is through Homebrew (ffmpeg is certainly there).
Yes, you can use external encoders with the Mac version of MC just like you can with Windows. You have to get and know how to use the command line tools, though.
The Mac version of MC does not have the internal filesystem browser, though there are a bunch of options. As Brian pointed out, the RMCF Tool is probably your best bet. But you could also let Auto-Import's Fix Broken Links feature fix them if you really want to move things outside of MC.
--- Quote from: blgentry on September 11, 2015, 08:59:28 am ---The other way I know of, is to use the Tagging Pane. From Tagging, you can edit the file name and MC will change it in it's database AND on disk. You can use expressions here too, which is convenient.
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If you change the [Filename] tag, MC moves the file. This is essentially what RMCF does in Rename mode. So, any way you can change the Filename tag, you can move files.
RMCF, of course, also allows you to use expressions. I'm sure you knew this, but others might get the wrong impression from your post, so I wanted to clarify.
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