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After the Hard drive crash..
Captor:
After first my backup/NAS hard drive crashed and then 2 days later my media PC hard drive crashed is there a way of extracting the CD artists/titles/songs from somewhere? So that I can load the same CDīs/songs again as I had before the crash? I have all CDīs in a huge database but I have not load in all my CDīs in the MC30 Library. I would like to see a list which ones there was in the Library so I can load those into the Library again.
When I started JRiver yesterday for the first time after the crash, without updating the library, there was a new Library Backup.zip created on the C-drive. Everything look like to be intact since I did not made an Library update. Is it possible to extract the CD titles and songs from there maybe?
Or do I need to do it the hard way, meaning open JRiver and open all artists threes so that I can see the CDīs and scrolling through all the artists/bands in JRiver and making a lot of print screens? Please see picture.
Or maybe I can install a second JRiver and then I can see whats in the old one and then edit in the new one? For example delete some songs I donīt had previous.
I am thinking about how I most easy can do this... Restoring my contents in JRiver as it was before the crash. I am open for other ideaīs also :-)
zybex:
I'm not sure I understand the question. Are you saying you lost the audio files but still have them showing up in MC, and you want a full list of names to restore the respective CDs?
If so, you can go to Audio -> Albums in the left tree to see all Albums. You can then switch to Details view to see a text list, and if you like Excel you can do a CTRL+A followed by CTRL+V, then paste the list into Excel.
Captor:
--- Quote from: zybex on November 12, 2023, 02:29:54 pm ---I'm not sure I understand the question. Are you saying you lost the audio files but still have them showing up in MC, and you want a full list of names to restore the respective CDs?
If so, you can go to Audio -> Albums in the left tree to see all Albums. You can then switch to Details view to see a text list, and if you like Excel you can do a CTRL+A followed by CTRL+V, then paste the list into Excel.
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Thank you very much, zybex. Yes that is exactly what I mean. I want to load that certain albums back in to the new hard drive again that I had in Media Center before . But I need to se which they are so I donīt load in other albums that i not want. If I have a list I can easy load that certain albums back in to the new hard drive. And then when that is done I can just restore the Library backup so I get the playlists back. At least that is what I hope is doable. Maybe I am thinking wrong?
zybex:
Alright, then you can get that list using Audio -> Albums as I mentioned above. However this will only work if you rip/load the albums to the *exact* same folder/filenames as they were before, which may not be easy if you didn't follow a specific naming convention for all of them.
It may be easier to rip the albums you want into a new folder structure, and then just rebuild/import that folder into MC. You will lose your existing playlists in MC, however.
Captor:
--- Quote from: zybex on November 12, 2023, 04:55:41 pm ---Alright, then you can get that list using Audio -> Albums as I mentioned above. However this will only work if you rip/load the albums to the *exact* same folder/filenames as they were before, which may not be easy if you didn't follow a specific naming convention for all of them.
It may be easier to rip the albums you want into a new folder structure, and then just rebuild/import that folder into MC. You will lose your existing playlists in MC, however.
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I had a specific naming convention for all my Albums. Either way, I will try what is more easy, it will be a lot of work, I think. I have still not got the new hard drive so I can not try yet.
I actually have another question about this. When having filled up a new folder in the new hard drive then I need to change attribute for all albums. When I load them in they are "read only". Is there a way I can do that for all albums at once when I am finished? For now I have only load in 1 or 2 albums each time so I actually didnīt bather but with maybe more than 1000 albums that is a big job itself. Is there a way to change the attribute in properties in Windows all at once?
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