Hi Bob, thanks for answering my questions. I have a fully tagged library that is my main library for MC PC 20 on the C drive of my PC. I can't figure out how to transfer that MAIN Library to the Id (as a server, I can get there as a renderer). I copied my flac library from windows to the Id (took all night) and only some items showed up tagged and in album/artist form (mostly the newer stuff). I tried to update the tags in MC20 on my PC and sync the library. Won't work - returns with an error message. I can access the files via JRemote, but can't update or change the tags. I have a 7000 track unassigned file. Can I assign the Id as a handheld, and transfer the files into the ID hard drive that way. I can use the ID as a renderer, but not as a server - it's not working out as I had expected. As a renderer, I would have gone the SSD route, but thought the larger HDD would store the files locally. Been tinkering with the device several days, and I'm kinda stuck.
PS: I have authentication setup on the PC, but not sure how to do that to match the access code on the Id. The access keys for the PC and Id are different. Is there a way to go into the Id to match the access keys?
Authentication was setup only in my effort to get the Id going, didn't have it setup before.
Hi Emovac1,
I think we need to start with some background information.
There are 2 pieces we are dealing with here.
1) The library. This is a relatively small database of all of the characteristics (album, artist, etc) of all of the files (music, image and video) in your MC.
2) The files themselves. These files may or may not (in the file tags) have the same information in them that are stored in the library database.
In your case we can assume that the majority of the files do not have the information stored in their tags. If they did, when you imported them on the Id all of the information in the tags would get put into the database and everything would be sorted properly.
So our task is to either
1) Update the tags in all of the files on your windows PC, clear the Id library, move the files to the Id again and re-import them on the Id.
2) Find a way to use the library database on the Id.
I don't think option 2 is available at this time because of the path and character translation issues I mentioned before.
Option 1 is relatively easy as long as you don't mind MC updating tags in your flac files. If this worries you, make a backup of the files first.
On the Windows MC you can just select all of the files (Audio->Files->All, click on one, hit control-a. they will all be highlighted)
Then on the highlighted file list:
right-click->Library Tools->Update tags from library
This will take a while on 7000 files, depends on the speed of your PC and the speed of the storage that the files are on.
Once this is finished, the tags on the files have all of the information needed to sort properly when you copy the files to the Id and re-import them.