I was trying to move some of my media files from HD to DVD, while still keeping the entries in the library. At first, i thought there must me some kind of "move to offline storage"-option, but i couldn't find anything like that. It seems i have to manually delete the file from the library, then burn them to DVD, and import them afterwards.
So i did that with a few test files, and everything seemed OK. After removing the DVD, and trying to play one of the offline files, i got an error message from MC that said "The track name 'xxx' cannot be played because the volume labeled 'xxx' was not found.". But, after inserting the correct DVD, MC still doesn't play any of the offline files. It keeps telling me that the DVD is not inserted, even though i can see and browse the contents in "Drives & Devices".
The library entries for the offline files are looking OK - the "Filename (Path)" field showing the volume label of the DVD, and the path to the respective file. The "Removable"-field is set to "1".
Can anyone please help me with this? Am i doing something wrong, or is this a bug? Has anyone developed an easy workflow for moving files to offline storage media?
Some additional info: i'm using MC 12.0.139, and i'm trying to backup to DVD-RAM. Some minutes ago, i discovered the thread "Use MC as total music index?", which has some nice information by Marko (thanks for that!). Using the view scheme that's described in the thread, i noticed that MC seems to create a new DB entry everytime i insert the DVD-RAM, adding a number to the volume label (<volume> (1), <volume> (2), etc.). I'm not sure if this also happens with WORM media (like DVD-R or CD-R), will look into this.