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[sbens]

Hello,

My music collection consists entirely of flac files -- about 40% hi-res tracks from HDTracks and about 60% CD rips. I want to create an mp3 version of the library and save it to my OneDrive. I'm using Convert Format for this, and it works well. However, I have to keep them in sync manually. If I add new music, this isn't too bad. I can select "Skip conversion if destination already exists" and convert the entire library again. But I don't have a good solution to detect changed tags. I guess I want something like "Skip conversion if destination is newer." As it is, whenever I edit a tag, I have to remember to delete the mp3 version of the file and regenerate it. I've almost certainly forgotten to do this a few times, so I'm sure my tags are out of sync. Is there an easier way to do this? My flac collection is the master, so I never need to flow tag updates in the opposite direction.

Thanks!

[blgentry]

I'm fairly certain that Sync Handheld will do what you are expecting.  You tell it what to sync and where to put it (a folder on a disk somewhere) and it will figure out what needs to be Synced.  It will do conversions for you, as you specify.

I just did a test and when I change the song name, or Genre, it re-syncs that song.  I changed the Date and that didn't make it re-sync.  I'm pretty sure this will work for most of your needs.

Brian.

[stanzani]

Hello,

My music collection consists entirely of flac files -- about 40% hi-res tracks from HDTracks and about 60% CD rips. I want to create an mp3 version of the library and save it to my OneDrive. I'm using Convert Format for this, and it works well. However, I have to keep them in sync manually. If I add new music, this isn't too bad. I can select "Skip conversion if destination already exists" and convert the entire library again. But I don't have a good solution to detect changed tags. I guess I want something like "Skip conversion if destination is newer." As it is, whenever I edit a tag, I have to remember to delete the mp3 version of the file and regenerate it. I've almost certainly forgotten to do this a few times, so I'm sure my tags are out of sync. Is there an easier way to do this? My flac collection is the master, so I never need to flow tag updates in the opposite direction.

Thanks!

Interesting topic: can you please tell me more details on how you do this? I have just started JRiver

Thanks in advance

[BryanC]

Interesting topic: can you please tell me more details on how you do this? I have just started JRiver

Thanks in advance

The best method for this, as bigentry stated above, is to use the Handheld Sync tool. If you need specific directions please ask here or search the forum.