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pauljdh

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Encoding WAV to FLAC - storage getting bigger!
« on: February 14, 2016, 12:31:39 pm »

Bit puzzled.

Been encoding .WAV to FLAC all afternoon. Whilst the individual folder size shrinks OK,   the folder where I keep all my music is increasing in size so this doesnt make sense.

Is MC21 keeping the .WAV file as well as creating a .FLAC one

My setting show that I am replacing the .WAV with a .FLAC….”replace original file on disk and in library”


and “convert to same folder as original files”


all looks good but as I say the main folder containing individual folders is gettin bigger and bigger!

Any help appreciated please.

(Windows 10 if that makes any difference)
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Re: Encoding WAV to FLAC - storage getting bigger!
« Reply #1 on: February 14, 2016, 12:41:46 pm »

Go to Tools > Options, then the File Location section and under Conversion Cache set it to None (do not create cache).
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Re: Encoding WAV to FLAC - storage getting bigger!
« Reply #2 on: February 14, 2016, 12:45:59 pm »

Thanks, will that remove any
 files and capacity or just apply to new coversions going forward?
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Re: Encoding WAV to FLAC - storage getting bigger!
« Reply #3 on: February 14, 2016, 05:24:29 pm »

Added nearly 50 GB! Completely flummaxed, cant see whats doing this.

It must be creating a back up copy somehwere?
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Re: Encoding WAV to FLAC - storage getting bigger!
« Reply #4 on: February 14, 2016, 05:32:37 pm »

You might try the %APPDATA%\J River\Media Center 21\Temp\ folder and see if it's there.

Otherwise, I'm not sure. I've long since disabled that feature and can't remember the default setting (perhaps it's next to file?).
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Re: Encoding WAV to FLAC - storage getting bigger!
« Reply #5 on: February 14, 2016, 06:41:03 pm »

Check what the temp folder is set to in the encoding settings.

If you're not removing the wav files as you encode, you could expect it to grow.  Try a search for the wav files.
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