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Title: smartlist to find multiple file types
Post by: zxsix on June 22, 2007, 01:02:37 pm

Have been re-ripping my cds to flac.
Once the flacs are imported, I delete the old mp3 files for the album.

Would like a smartlist to make sure I don't miss any.
Having trouble with the exact syntax, but here's what I want...

Media Type = Audio
Show any Albums that include files of type .mp3 AND .flac

Title: Re: smartlist to find multiple file types
Post by: Matt on June 22, 2007, 04:23:07 pm

This is tricky.  The "possible duplicates" smartlist might help.

Title: Re: smartlist to find multiple file types
Post by: zxsix on June 22, 2007, 06:47:12 pm

Actually the "incomplete albums" smartlist works.  It sees that there's duplicate track 1 for the same album.
Fixed me right up.

Title: Re: smartlist to find multiple file types
Post by: hit_ny on June 23, 2007, 12:44:25 pm

interesting, talk about getting what you want indirectly.

Title: Re: smartlist to find multiple file types
Post by: benn600 on June 23, 2007, 01:12:43 pm

I think you would just be better off manually going through this instead of making a playlist.  Remember that between each CD rip, you have ~10 minutes while it rips so you can spend those ten minutes searching around and cleaning up things.

I would find it hard to believe that the album names would match up exactly.  I find that often there are differences, mistakes, or strange occurances in the database information so I usually check it all to make it more accurate and in line with my preferred style for tagging things...and I usually make slight variations when strange characters or long names are used.

Title: Re: smartlist to find multiple file types
Post by: zxsix on June 23, 2007, 04:07:58 pm

I'm replacing high quality mp3 rips with flac rips.  I use a second tab to make sure the album, artist, and genre tabs match the old values before I begin the rip.
I merely forgot to delete the mp3 files a few times, leaving me with duplicate songs.  Just using the smartlist to double-check myself.

Title: Re: smartlist to find multiple file types
Post by: Alex B on June 25, 2007, 05:25:32 pm

Quote from: Alex B on April 10, 2005, 04:35:15 am

In case someone wants to rerip old albums in better quality changing also the file format is quite possible.


I have done this many times:

I have an old album that I have ripped in MP3 format. The files are perfectly tagged, but the audio quality is not good enough anymore. I want to rerip it in the Monkey's Audio format.

At first I rename the old album files (which are in a separate album folder) from properties using [Track #] as the only rule. Then I use the Find and Replace tool for replacing the .mp3  filename extensions with .ape.

Then I rerip. I rip into a temporary folder and use again [Track #] as the only rule.

I get filenames like this: 01.ape, 02.ape, 03.ape, etc.

After ripping I remove the new APE files from the library (or use a temporary library for ripping).

Then I replace the old files with the new files using Windows Explorer.

Inside MC I need to do three quick steps for the now replaced files in this order:
Update Tags From Library, Update Library From Tags and Rename Files From Properties (using a proper rule).

The last step is to reanalyze the files. The difference is usually very small, but I want it to be perfect.

In this way I can preserve all library information, including the statistical information and original import dates.

With this system typing or downloading track info is unnecessary.