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The option exists.  It's called "Play Leading Silence".  Search window at bottom of options page.

It sounds like it's going into a power saving mode, so anything that uses it might work to power it up.  You could ask the manufacturer.

That's on the wiki under Moving Files.

Did you try the On Screen Display (OSD)?  It's on the wiki.

At the risk of sounding like a broken record ... is there any chance this will be addressed any time soon ?

https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,120543.0.html

Cheers,
Peter

Think I found one solution. 

After copying the files to the new destination drive, restore the library using the newest backup, then select all files and go into Library Tools / Rename, Move and Copy Files.

In the bottom section on the left there is a Find & Replace tool that lets you rename all the filename roots to a new destination drive and keep all other filename information the same.

It changed all filenames correctly and everything seems to work OK so far.

If anyone has a better solution, please share.

What's the best way to copy a library from one computer to another that uses a different drive ID?

I tried copying all files on my desktop PC to a portable SSD drive used with my work laptop.  The music files on my desktop PC are kept on drive C and the portable SSD drive on my laptop is drive E.

After the files were copied to the portable SSD, I restored the library that was on my desktop to my PC.  At first, the PC had trouble playing any files because it was trying to find them on device C and all files were on device E.  I then did a file import operation and the files were successfully imported.

The problem is, the albums are now showing double files with half shown as on C and half shown on device E.  How do I tell it to disregard the original C drive filenames?

Will this correct itself in time or is there something else I need to do or re-do?

In general, what is the best approach for copying/backing up a library from one PC to another where the files are kept on a different device ID?

Thank you.

I personally do this manually using Beyond Compare every time I make changes to my main music library.

I have hardware (Silex DS600 ethernet LAN to USB) that allows use anywhere on my LAN of a USB audio interface (or almost any other type of USB device) almost as if it were plugged in to the computer. The "almost" is because whenever the DS600 sits idle for a few seconds it then takes 2-10 seconds to re-synchronize when it again is asked to pass audio data, while in the meantime producing hash. The DS600 is potentially great but needs silence to be played every time the play button is pushed, even if the sample rate does not change. This behavior is not caused by the USB audio interface which does not do this when plugged into the computer, and the behavior is consistent across other USB audio interfaces. I realize that this is something that should be fixed by Silex, but I think they don't know how. Does anyone else have equipment that would be happier with a short segment of silence every time "play" is pushed? Could it be an option?

Now that I have cleaned up my classical CD rip collection (which took quite a while), looking to back up the library in future to avoid any possibility of losing it. 

Thinking will back up the library kept on my desktop's 2TB SSD hard drive to a portable 2TB SSD hard drive used with my work laptop.  I am also considering buying an additional 2TB SSD hard drive and keeping it in a separate location as a fail-safe for any possibility (house theft, fire, etc).

Any recommendations for good back-up software?  Would like something that records changes that occur from the date of the most recent backup on the original source and then just makes those changes to the destination when doing a back-up, so that you don't have to copy the entire collection of files every time.

Thanks.

Woops - meant to post this on the main board.  Is there an option to move?

With the subject option selected, a Standard View skin incorrectly draws the expanded Scrollbar VerticalHandle (same for horizontal handle).  It appears the handle's endpoint sub-images are stretched in one direction, but not the other, resulting in a distorted handle image during enlarged mouseover and during an enlarged scrollbar drag.  Many enlarged scrollbars have always looked goofy to me, and I think this is partly to blame.

Example:  I define the handle to be a simple rounded rectangle with (corner radius) = (rectangle narrow dimension) / 2, thereby giving smooth "half round" ends to the handle (see attachment, but I've seen the same issue with other handle images and other Standard View skins).  With the subject option deselected everything looks good, nicely rounded as expected.  With the option selected, the ends appear squashed, as if stretched in one direction but not the other.

I use the following code in the <SCROLLBARS> section of the skin's main.xml file:
<Entry Name="VerticalHandle"  Bitmap="Scrollbar_VerticalHandle.png"  NumberImages="3" Margins="0,5,0,5" Scale="1" DrawMode="REGION_E_VSTRETCH"/>
<Entry Name="VerticalBackground" Bitmap="Scrollbar_VerticalBackground.png"  NumberImages="1" Margins="0,5,0,5" Scale="1" />
<Entry Name="VerticalUpArrow" Bitmap="Scrollbar_VerticalUpArrow.png"  NumberImages="3" Margins="0,0,0,0" Scale="1" />
<Entry Name="VerticalDownArrow" Bitmap="Scrollbar_VerticalDownArrow.png" NumberImages="3" Margins="0,0,0,0" Scale="1" />

Seems like a bug to me.  I messed around with several other DrawMode values and did not find anything that changed the described behavior.  In any case, it cost me several frustrating hours to unravel this story while modifying a skin with the option selected.

General Comments re subject option:  It's 100% an optical illusion, and I've decided never to use it (at least as currently implemented).  This option in no way affects the actual operation of selecting the scrollbar and scrolling it: (1) It does not make it easier to initially "hit" the scrollbar (initial target area is not enlarged) (2) During scrolling, the LMB down mouse can be dragged anywhere on the screen while continuing to scroll (a good thing), irrespective of this option. (3) It has the annoying side affect of temporarily pushing all the Control Panel thumbnails to the left.

Note:  For a change in this option to take affect, MC must be re-launched after selecting/deselecting it.

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