Yeah, I had a suspicion that I was making it hard on myself
To be honest, I have never used the auto-import function. Mainly because I'm skeptical as to how it works. How will this function cope with for instance renaming a folder? (Once in a while I also tidy up my music collection, making folder naming consistent and so on). Does the auto-import run each time you start J.river, or does it constantly use resources?
Thanks for the tip of using the delete command. However, I see no reason why the clear library function shall be so inflexible compared with the delete function.
-Jarle
What is your folder structure in windows (is all the music in one Music folder, or do you have sub folders for genre etc?)
Auto import doesn't have to auto-tag, you can use it just to import into the database. For example I have two windows folders (incoming music, incoming video) which auto import into MC but not auto tagged...if I put 20 new albums into the incoming folder, they appear in MC but are untouched. Then I can manually tag them and use the rename,move,copy tool to get the folder names and stuff correct, and move them to their resting place in the main library. It's very easy and fast, and if you want to manually import you still only have to import the entire incoming folder, not 20 separate albums.
You can use auto import to do some tagging as well, I know some users do for everything but I only do for certain things (documents and podcasts) because I'm very OCD about my tagging
Read up the wiki a little and if you have a specific question just post up and you'll get a lot of good advice. But either way your current workflow is incredibly inefficient, and that's why the clear library tool seems so inflexible to you