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Adding DVD's (the real discs!) into database

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4BYE:
You're are right about the DVD label. Some have a name, some have the movie title, but many have not, or indeed something like "DVD Video". I have a couple of discs that appear to be the same disc although they are different movies. If I put in such a disc it shows no new DVD but MC "thinks" it's another one already in the database. I can tell after putting about 400 disc in the library.

Matt:

--- Quote from: Alex B on October 23, 2010, 01:20:57 pm ---I think B is the correct answer. This shouldn't be difficult for JRiver. MC could either check if the Filename field starts with a (xxxxxxxxxx): string or add a flag that would indicate a CD/DVD to the MPL code.

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I'm not sure what to do about this one.

An MPL file is not meant to be a full library backup.  For example, volume names are stored in a part of the database that is not used when doing MPL import / export.

Why not use a library backup as a library backup?

Alex B:

--- Quote ---Why not use a library backup as a library backup?
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I have done that for as couple of times when I have wanted to merge my existing CD/DVD data with another library:

1. Restore a backup file (from the library that contains the CD/DVD data)
2. Remove the files that are not a part of the CD/DVD section.
3. Import the other files from the other library by MPL.
4. Import the playlists from the other library (exported manually)
5. Recreate the smartlists (copy the rules from the other library)

It kind of works, but only if the optical discs were previously inserted and tagged or burned on a single PC/MC library instance. We have several PCs and from time to time I would like to merge the CD/DVD data from two or more PC/MC instances. I can't think of any workaround for that.

Some of the data for Audio CDs can be found from the online database (but only the basic fields, no extended tags, cover art links or statistics) and, most importantly, that does not make possible to browse the disc archive before the discs are inserted. Naturally the DVD Video discs and our various burned data discs (home video, recorded TV series, images, old audio files, etc) don't even get the basic library data automatically. (The Wikipedia lookup might help a bit with some popular DVD Videos, but the discs must be inserted and the lookup must done for each individual disc manually.)

4BYE:

--- Quote from: Matt on October 27, 2010, 04:08:10 pm ---Why not use a library backup as a library backup?

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That's fine with me if I'm safe with that. Can I have the same library, later when needed, in MC 15? I mean won't there be problems keeping my ripped DVD's from the CD/DVD discs?

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