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More => Old Versions => JRiver Media Center 28 for Windows => Topic started by: antenna on January 31, 2022, 10:44:24 am
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A couple of days ago I wanted to do some cleanup of the MC database tags (song names, mostly). When i do such a cleanup, I will then press F6 to make sure the file location on the disk represents the new tag info (i.e., artist, album, song title).
But i ran into a problem. when I pressed OK to rename the file, I got an error message saying that the file could not be renamed.
All the files play properly, so MC still knows where they are.
Long story (a day and a half of troubleshooting) short, when I look at the tags of most of the files in the database, for the Filename tag I see the words "<can't be renamed>" instead of the filename. I say "most" because a file I imported yesterday does not have that, it has the filename with path.
Two questions:
- how do I fix all the files in the database so that they can be renamed?
- what did I do to cause this to happen? The reason I ask is that I do not want to do it again.
Thanks!
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MC should never set the filenames to that. If it happened somehow, you probably need to restore from a backup. MC makes them automatically.
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More info...
When I was building the playlist that I uploaded on Jan 18
Let's Make A Playlist, Door #2: 60's and 70's, mostly rock (all vinyl)
I used the file renaming capability and it worked without a problem.
So this seems to have occurred quite recently.
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MC should never set the filenames to that. If it happened somehow, you probably need to restore from a backup. MC makes them automatically.
OK, I'll do a restore and let you know how it turns out.
thx.
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OK, I did a restore from the Jan 21, 2022 backup.
Everything looks OK now. The filename tag has the correct file and path for the files.
btw, I forgot to mention in my original post, I'm running MC 28.0.105 on Win10/64.
Any idea what might have caused that?
In any case, many thanks for the quick help!