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More => Old Versions => JRiver Media Center 24 for Windows => Topic started by: Amadan on August 31, 2018, 01:45:45 pm

Title: How to copy/export video files plus sidecar files?
Post by: Amadan on August 31, 2018, 01:45:45 pm

Hi all,

I would like to regularly export video files along with their .xml sidecar files to an external folder for specific purposes. So far I have only found the possibility to do this by format conversion. But that takes a lot of time and actually i don't want to convert the files, I only want to copy the original files including their sidecar. Also syncing to a "virtual" device does not copy the sidecars.

So, is it somehow possible to do the following: select several videos in MC and then do something like "copy/export to folder (including sidecars)"?

Would be great if someone could give me a hint how to achieve that.

Thanks,
Stefan

Title: Re: How to copy/export video files plus sidecar files?
Post by: Amadan on September 01, 2018, 05:15:06 am

I found a solution that will work for me: I will send the selected video files to a new playlist and export the playlist as .MPL file. This file not only can be easily parsed (cause XML format) but contains also all the required tags that I expected only to be found in the sidecar files.

So, Ii only have to write a batchjob that copies the files from the original library (the complete path are given in the .MPL) and can then afterwards do what I wanted (based on data in the MPL instead of the sidecar files).

"case closed" :), thx for listening