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JimH:

--- Quote from: This2ShallPass on November 28, 2023, 02:47:15 pm ---I can see that this would be incredibly powerful. I also think that consideration should be made to include ways to migrate whole libraries to/from JRiver Id devices.

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The method I'm thinking about would work on anything that could run MC.  That includes the Id.

Matt:
We're starting to frame something up.

We added a new menu command "Download Library From Library Server".

When you run it, it asks where to put the new library and whether you want all files or only music files.

Then it starts a download of all the files and eventually everything will be moved copied.

It uses the paths you set in Options for where to put the downloads (just like the existing download feature).

MGD_King:
Can I play Devil's Advocate for a minute? Let's say I have all of my files on a drive on the Library Server, and those files total 5TB. If I fire up MC on a different machine that has a smaller drive (laptop, for example), I won't be able to copy the files down to the local machine. How will this feature handle that? Will it fill the drive up till it errors or check drive for space first?

zybex:
It would work best to add an option to download just a playlist.

Or better, to cache a playlist locally on a client machine so that MC can play it without any contact with the server/NAS - this would require the "offline mode" I mentioned above. Right-click on the playlist, select "add to local cache", then take the laptop anywhere and play it. A view could be added to display/manage all cached files.

Matt:

--- Quote from: MGD_King on November 30, 2023, 12:25:29 pm ---Can I play Devil's Advocate for a minute? Let's say I have all of my files on a drive on the Library Server, and those files total 5TB. If I fire up MC on a different machine that has a smaller drive (laptop, for example), I won't be able to copy the files down to the local machine. How will this feature handle that? Will it fill the drive up till it errors or check drive for space first?

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We're adding disk space checking.  It won't continue if there's not enough space.

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