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Title: Removing Feature: Ignore small files
Post by: Matt on June 27, 2006, 05:19:37 pm

We're planning to remove the "Ignore small files" option from the import system.

Any objections?

Title: Re: Removing Feature: Ignore small files
Post by: datdude on June 27, 2006, 05:26:01 pm

none here, banish it!

Title: Re: Removing Feature: Ignore small files
Post by: Alex B on June 27, 2006, 05:33:04 pm

This option was about the first thing I noticed when I checked the import options today. Many albums contain interludes or other tracks that are shorter than 10 s. At least you could change the default from enabled to disabled.

Title: Re: Removing Feature: Ignore small files
Post by: NoCodeUK on June 27, 2006, 05:47:28 pm

Remove it!  It's not difficult to remove any small files later that slip through the net and it sometimes caught out some legitimate ones.

Adam

Title: Re: Removing Feature: Ignore small files
Post by: Doof on June 27, 2006, 06:00:03 pm

I won't miss it.

Title: Re: Removing Feature: Ignore small files
Post by: jgreen on June 27, 2006, 06:01:02 pm

I say either remove it or make the size limits user-configurable (which I know is going against the grain).  The fact is there's a lot of stuff I don't want MC/otto dragging into my library, but unless I can adjust the settings a lot of it slips past the "Ignore" function anyway, so I have to clean it up by searching via size.

Title: Re: Removing Feature: Ignore small files
Post by: KingSparta on June 27, 2006, 06:11:37 pm

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We're planning to remove the "Ignore small files" option from the import system.

Any objections?

No, I always allow short files

Title: Re: Removing Feature: Ignore small files
Post by: gpvillamil on June 28, 2006, 01:36:23 am

Go ahead and remove it, short files on CDs usually represent small but important chunks of information.

Easy enough to clean up afterwards.

Title: Re: Removing Feature: Ignore small files
Post by: marko on June 28, 2006, 02:34:51 am

I'd say remove it too.

It was only relevant when an empty library offered to "search the entire computer". If you're now defaulting to the three default media directories, I cannot see any reason to skip small files.

Title: Re: Removing Feature: Ignore small files
Post by: Marty3d on June 28, 2006, 05:18:52 am

I agree. Unless people put the music in C:\Windows, they shouldn't have any problems with those small files.

Title: Re: Removing Feature: Ignore small files
Post by: glynor on June 28, 2006, 08:53:22 am

I've never used it.  If I ever need to remove them (or if you're worried about people complaining) it would be very easy to add a Smartlist that shows all of them that the filter would have normally caught (to ease their deletion).

I agree... Kill it.

Title: Re: Removing Feature: Ignore small files
Post by: Deivit on June 28, 2006, 11:59:45 am

I'm not gonna miss it.

Title: Re: Removing Feature: Ignore small files
Post by: Matt on June 28, 2006, 12:02:16 pm

It's gone.  Thanks everyone.