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Title: Compare libraries
Post by: xian on April 16, 2004, 03:10:00 pm

I have a bunch of media files on my laptop (with a local library) and my home desktop has media server running so I have a remote library too.

Can I compare the two libraries so that I know which files I need to copy onto my server at home?

Does that make any sense?

Title: Re:Compare libraries
Post by: JustinChase on April 16, 2004, 03:21:49 pm

Quote from: xian on April 16, 2004, 03:10:00 pm

Does that make any sense?

Yes,

No you can't (unless something has changed, and they didn't tell us)

Title: Re:Compare libraries
Post by: xian on April 16, 2004, 03:22:50 pm

Damn

Title: Re:Compare libraries
Post by: RemyJ on April 16, 2004, 03:55:26 pm

There's a brute force way...

If you pull up the Artist/Album statistics from the Action Window, you can cut and paste into a text file or Excel spreadsheet.    Do that on both machines and either run a file compare tool or just eyeball.  

I compared two libraries of about 2000 artist/albums by pasting the stats into 2 adjacent spreadsheet columns and just scanning for mismatches by eye.   Took about 10 minutes but they were already pretty close.

Title: Re:Compare libraries
Post by: xian on April 16, 2004, 03:56:30 pm

Ugly but there you go, I did the same with XML exports of the two libraries