But shouldn't Mediacenter understand a little bit about cue files so as not to do this? (!!!)
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I used to trust Mediacenter not to do bad stuff like this.
Usually Media Center prevents things like this from happening. Unfortunately this seems to be a situation that no one has stumbled on before.
I hope the developers can add a file delete prevention if the source file is needed for the other files in the conversion list too. Perhaps it would be better to not allow deletion of a referenced source file at all. Someone may accidentally add only some of the album tracks in the conversion list. This would leave the other album tracks orphaned if MC deleted the source file after a successful conversion.
... When it finds a cue file designated track, it should assume the user wants to convert the original .ape file (what else could he possibly want to do?). ...
Usually users want to split the big files to separate track files and often also change the file format (e.g. from APE to MP3). Normally users also want to preserve the original files so they don't use the "Send original file to the recycle bin" option.
Previously the cue track conversion option was next to useless because the resulting track files were not tagged. This was fixed recently and now MC adds track specific tags to the converted files.
MC still lacks a filename templete option for the converted files. The current system is to use the filename of the source file and add a sequence number. However, because MC can easily rename files from the tags this is not a big problem.