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More => Old Versions => Media Center 11 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: rritchey on April 01, 2004, 11:56:52 am

Title: Skip duplicates not working
Post by: rritchey on April 01, 2004, 11:56:52 am

I've just finished burning my entire CD collection into the APE format and I'd now like to mirror the collection into MP3s for use in my portable music player.  For various reasons (mainly performance) I'd prefer to handle this as a batch operation as opposed to letting MC perform the conversion on the fly when transferring the music onto my player.  The problem I'm having is that when I go to convert the music, MC does not seem to be paying attention to the skip duplicates checkbox.  Even if the MP3 already exists, it still converts the file and places another copy in the destination directory.  This makes it very inconvenient as I now have to manually determine which files I've already converted instead of just selecting the entire database and letting MC figure out which files need conversion.  In case it matters, I am having it mirror the directory structure, and I have told it not to update the database.  I'm running MC 10.0.100.

Any help appreciated.

Ron

Title: Re:Skip duplicates not working
Post by: rritchey on April 02, 2004, 08:42:13 pm

Bump!  Anyone have any advice?

Thanks,
Ron

Title: Re:Skip duplicates not working
Post by: pipsqueak on April 02, 2004, 08:44:45 pm

not sure how helpful this is but...

delete the mp3's then overnight copy them all. that way there wont be any dups and if you ever need to copy any more use the date created function so you only copy whats new

Title: Re:Skip duplicates not working
Post by: JustinChase on April 03, 2004, 10:20:47 am

Or wiat for the first time MC asks you if you want to overwrite a file and say 'yes to all'.

Not right, but should work.