Topic: Compare libraries (Read 990 times)

xian · « **on:** April 16, 2004, 03:10:00 pm »

I have a bunch of media files on my laptop (with a local library) and my home desktop has media server running so I have a remote library too.

Can I compare the two libraries so that I know which files I need to copy onto my server at home?

Does that make any sense?

JustinChase · « **Reply #1 on:** April 16, 2004, 03:21:49 pm »

Quote from: xian on April 16, 2004, 03:10:00 pm

Does that make any sense?

Yes,

No you can't (unless something has changed, and they didn't tell us)

xian · « **Reply #2 on:** April 16, 2004, 03:22:50 pm »

RemyJ · « **Reply #3 on:** April 16, 2004, 03:55:26 pm »

There's a brute force way...

If you pull up the Artist/Album statistics from the Action Window, you can cut and paste into a text file or Excel spreadsheet. Do that on both machines and either run a file compare tool or just eyeball.

I compared two libraries of about 2000 artist/albums by pasting the stats into 2 adjacent spreadsheet columns and just scanning for mismatches by eye. Took about 10 minutes but they were already pretty close.

xian · « **Reply #4 on:** April 16, 2004, 03:56:30 pm »

Ugly but there you go, I did the same with XML exports of the two libraries

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xian

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xian

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