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What is best way to Re-Rip Albums while preserving old library info?
rjm:
--- Quote from: marko on January 06, 2009, 12:59:33 pm ---You know that MC keeps a catalogue of offline files?
You can list them, and manipulate the tags, though naturally, the data can only be held in the MC database.
Try the attached file for an example. Extract the enclosed file to ...\Media Center 13\Data\Saved Views\
Then, from MC, choose "add library view"
-marko
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Thanks for the tip Marko.
Sorry I was not clearer. I make heavy use of MC to track the content of offline media stored on DVD-R and CD-R. It works beautifully and allows me to rely on MC to manage all of my media, not just the media stored on my hard drive.
The only problem is that it is a pain to change the location of media from online to offline or vice versa.
As far as I can tell the only fields that change in this operation are Offline (which toggles between 0 and 1) and Volume Name which changes between a hard drive letter and the volume label of the optical disc. Unfortunately it is not possible to edit either of these fields which means all tags must be reenterred and thumbnails must be rebuilt when switching between online and offline.
So why do I want this? I manage about 4 TB of hard drive content with MC and my drives are full. I have decided for a variety of reasons not to increase my drive space until 2+ TB drives are cheap. This means that when I get new content that I want online I have to move something else offline. It would be great if this operation was quick and friendly. For example, burn the files to DVD-R and tell MC that the location has changed. As it currently stands, I groan and waste about 10 minutes for every new optical disc.
Magic_Randy:
Should you re-analyze audio after doing the processes described in this thread?
I do the analyze audio as part of the rip, but I'm not sure if the results are stored in the library. If they are, using the processes described in this thread may not be keeping the new analyze results.
mark_h:
It would make sense, you need to clear the replay gain tag to do so.
Mark
Alex B:
--- Quote from: Magic_Randy on January 07, 2009, 06:47:43 am ---Should you re-analyze audio after doing the processes described in this thread?
I do the analyze audio as part of the rip, but I'm not sure if the results are stored in the library. If they are, using the processes described in this thread may not be keeping the new analyze results.
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They are always stored in the library and by default also in the file tags.
If you are anal-retentive about storing only exactly correct numbers, then yes, you should analyze the new files in a way or another (assuming you are switching from a lossy format to losslesss or between two different lossy quality settings). It might be easiest to not analyze the files during ripping and run the analyzer separately after the new files are in place.
However, the difference between e.g. a typical high bitrate lossy format and lossless source is mostly academic. The peak values are usually slightly smaller in lossless, but the replay gain values are almost identical.
dcwebman:
--- Quote from: rjm on January 06, 2009, 09:18:17 pm ---Sorry I was not clearer. I make heavy use of MC to track the content of offline media stored on DVD-R and CD-R. It works beautifully and allows me to rely on MC to manage all of my media, not just the media stored on my hard drive.
The only problem is that it is a pain to change the location of media from online to offline or vice versa.
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rjm, you're not the only one that would like an easier way to do this. I have a bunch of stuff that I would like to move offline because I don't listen to them often and don't want to go through the re-rip process of all. At the moment I'm keeping them online because I have hard drive space but that means backups take longer too. It would be nice to get them offline.
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