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Ratings Missing [Solved]
Lunatique:
I just had to build a new PC because the old one was dying. So I used the database recovery feature in Media Center, and it did restore my database, however, because I also had to move my music files to a different drive, once Media Center detected the files had been moved, it only kept the ratings I had for a portion of the songs, but not the rest, so now I have thousands of songs that no longer have ratings anymore.
I tried to redo the database recovery using the same database backup, and the same thing happened again. At first all the original ratings showed up, but as soon as Media Center detected the files had moved, and started relinking them to the new locations, a large portion of the relinked files in the new location would lose their previous ratings.
Why did this happen? How can I get those ratings back?
JimH:
There are some tools you can use. On the wiki, please read the topic called Moving Files.
It's possible the ratings are in the file, but not in your MC library. You can update the library from file tags or vice versa. That's under the Tools menu. Experiment with a few files before you do very many.
The library backup does contain ratings, so it's odd you're having this problem.
Lunatique:
--- Quote from: JimH on December 14, 2020, 05:06:14 pm ---There are some tools you can use. On the wiki, please read the topic called Moving Files.
It's possible the ratings are in the file, but not in your MC library. You can update the library from file tags or vice versa. That's under the Tools menu. Experiment with a few files before you do very many.
The library backup does contain ratings, so it's odd you're having this problem.
--- End quote ---
I just tried updating the library from file tags, but it didn't do anything.
What else can I do? I cannot move the files back to the old location because that was a different computer, so I can't recreate the condition of the previous setup.
Is there anyway I can first restore the backup database, and then somehow relink the old ratings in Media Center to the files new locations?
mwillems:
--- Quote from: Lunatique on December 14, 2020, 05:31:11 pm ---Is there anyway I can first restore the backup database, and then somehow relink the old ratings in Media Center to the files new locations?
--- End quote ---
Yes. After loading the library backup immediately disable the "auto-import in the background" setting and do not manually run an import. Then select a few songs and open the rename, move, and copy tool. In the upper left corner there is a menu where you can select an option called something like "Update database to point a new location." You can then point the old entries to your new file locations. Try doing an album or two until you get it working the way you like, and then you can do all the rest at once.
Based on what you're experiencing it sounds like the ratings are in your library database but not written to the actual files, so once you have everything lined up again, you may want to update the file tags from library rather than the other way around.
Lunatique:
--- Quote from: mwillems on December 14, 2020, 05:39:59 pm ---Yes. After loading the library backup immediately disable the "auto-import in the background" setting and do not manually run an import. Then select a few songs and open the rename, move, and copy tool. In the upper left corner there is a menu where you can select an option called something like "Update database to point a new location." You can then point the old entries to your new file locations. Try doing an album or two until you get it working the way you like, and then you can do all the rest at once.
Based on what you're experiencing it sounds like the ratings are in your library database but not written to the actual files, so once you have everything lined up again, you may want to update the file tags from library rather than the other way around.
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I just tried it on one album, and it worked.
Do I have to do this for every unique artist or album folder directory? That's pretty daunting considering there are thousands of songs. Or is there a way to set it up to select all the files that have moved in Media Center, then use the move tool to point to the new root directory where the various genres, artists, and albums are organized in different directories, and then Media Center will do the rest by searching all folders within that root directory and link up with them separately?
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