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Fixing Paths and Filenames with special characters (Accents, etc.) Mac/PC
tangolovers:
When I was struggling with duplicates, I realized something was up with my DB. If I tried reimporting an album I would end up with some duplicates. So I first exported all my playlists & backed up. Then I deleted all entries from my library and reimported everything. Now my library seems to be much cleaner and working fine (ratings, tempo, genre etc are all good) HOWEVER, many of my playlists are mostly empty because it seems that some links must have been broken. I tried reimporting the playlists to no avail... still empty or partially so.
When I open the playlist files .m3u & .m3u8, I can see everything is still there, but after importing they are not relinking with the correct files - even though the file path is 100% correct. Is there anyway to force them to re-link?
RoderickGI:
No.
The path in the Playlists must match the path to the actual files, and then those tracks will show up in the Playlist inside MC.
I know you said the paths are 100% correct... but...
That is why I asked for an image showing the full paths to the files. Something must be different between the two paths, which is why you saw duplicates, and is now why Playlists don't import properly.
Try this:
Find a track that should appear on a Playlist you imported, but doesn't.
Use the right-click > Locate > On Disk (external) function to open finder where the track is, and copy the full path.
Edit the Playlist file that has the track in it (or a copy if you wish to keep the original).
Replace the current path for the track with the path you just copied, and save the file.
Reimport the Playlist.
Did the missing track now appear in the Playlist inside MC?
If so, there is possibly an unusual character in the path, that hasn't translated well from Windows to Mac or vice versa. If that is the case, then that is probably the cause of all your issues.
tangolovers:
Hello RoderickGI,
Thank you so much for your help & patience! At the moment, the duplicates went away because I did a complete delete of all library entries & re-imported everything, which got rid of duplicates and other issues, but wiped out some (not all) of my playlists. I think I had a lot of broken links which I will explain below. So, for now I am focusing only on my MAC until the library is cleaned up. My MAC being my primary platform - where I do all my work before transferring the library to PC which is used for playing. I will change that once all this is worked out.
I realized that I had done a big NO NO awhile ago and I “suspect” that is the source of my problems.
After upgrading to MC 23, I wanted to get rid of all the MC 22 folders. And, I prefer to have all my backups & library under "/Users/me/My Backups/Media Center/Library Backups/" rather than the JRiver folder. So, I made the appropriate (so I thought) changes in Options > File Location > Program Files. Then I deleted the JRiver folder(s), not realizing the importance of the .jmd files or anything else inside. Now, after exporting my playlist MC created a new folder “Media Center 22 on MAC” under my designated path above. Yet, I can't find any references to MC 22 under File Location or anywhere else under Options to get rid of all references to MC22.
I feel so stupid for doing this. I now have 2 backups. One with a messed up library and good playlists and the other with a clean library and messed up playlists. I would love to merge these two somehow if possible.
Thank you,
Susie
JimH:
MC makes automatic backups. Search in Finder for *.zip
tangolovers:
Hi Jim,
I definitely know about the backups, but somehow I think I broke my links, so I have one seemingly perfect DB (backups library) except for the playlists being half empty and another older DB where the playlists are fine, but the DB is not healthy... seems like I may have many broken some links with all my deleting of folders (outside of MC). I have a hunch things have been bad for awhile since I got in the habit of moving & delaying the JRiver folder & others. Make sense?
On a side note, can you tell me how to relocate the primary JRiver folder & all the .jmd files using MC? I have never been able to figure out how to do this in MC so I've always made the double bad mistake of changing the name & moving this folder manually in Finder rather than from MC. On the MAC it always seems to end up in /Users/me/documents/JRiver/, until I attempt to change it. Unfortunately, I've done this more than once. So I need to know how to do this w/in MC and then how to fix the bigger problem of all the broken links I seem to have created. Basically I need to merge my playlist structure (nested folders) from one Library b/u with the Audio DB portion from a a different Library b/u - it that's at all possible. This is why I took the extreme steps I explained at the beginning... but it didn't work. :'(
Thank you,
Susie
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