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lmurawski

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filter music to show missing files
« on: January 25, 2006, 05:01:22 pm »

I've spent a bit of time looking for an option for this, but I haven't been able to find any information.

I've had several directories get corrupt and vanish from my hard drive.  Is there a way to filter those music files out so I can see what is missing?
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Bill Kearney

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Re: filter music to show missing files
« Reply #1 on: May 20, 2006, 01:00:12 pm »

bump.

MC shows a red
  • icon on tracks it can't find.  Is there a way to filter or sort by this?  I'd like to bulk-delete these tracks from MC's database.
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Craig

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Re: filter music to show missing files
« Reply #2 on: May 20, 2006, 04:10:31 pm »

I asked the same question a few weeks ago.

This was Alex B's reply

Try this search:

[=IsMissing([Filename])]=1

You can also make a smartlist of it. Be aware that it can be slow if you have a large library.


If you have cue tracks, which have virtual filenames that end with ;1, ;2, etc you may want to exclude them from the search.

This would exclude the files that have the string .mp3; in the filename:

-[Filename (name)]=.mp3; [=IsMissing([Filename])]=1

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Re: filter music to show missing files
« Reply #3 on: May 30, 2006, 08:33:23 am »

Thanks Craig, that's exactly what I needed.  It's a little counter-intuituve as the tracks as listed in the database DO show a value in this field.  Thus using 'IsMissing' didn't seem obvious. 

I'd only expect to use a smartlist like this only once in a great while.  Is there any 'harm' with leaving this smartlist setup and not used?  As in, will MC waste cycles trying to keep this up to date even if I never view it?  Or does it only process such lists when they're actually used?
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marko

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Re: filter music to show missing files
« Reply #4 on: May 30, 2006, 02:25:53 pm »

>> Or does it only process such lists when they're actually used? <<

that's correct.

I keep things like that out of the way in the 'workshop', leaving other areas of MC uncluttered, containing viewschemes/play/smartlists for playback, not work.


imo, every copy of MC should have a workshop, but then, I would say that, wouldn't I?  ;) :D

-marko.

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Bill, you know your avatar's gone AWOL?
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