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Title: What's the best way to check accuracy of library?
Post by: sskings on October 06, 2012, 12:44:45 pm

Question:  What's the best way to occasionally check that the fidelity between the library and files on disk?  For example: Are they in the right folder?  Are the tags correct?

Title: Re: What's the best way to check accuracy of library?
Post by: MrC on October 06, 2012, 12:56:49 pm

It depends on what you care about.

The Rename tool is good for checking file location in your media folders.  Select all the files, and select/enter your media rules.  The preview window will guide you. Alternatively, you can create a view that compares actual vs. desired file locations.

Tags on disc will generally be the same as tags in the library if you've left default MC auto-tagging settings.  Otherwise, you can compare a given tag value against the tag value in the file using the Tag() (http://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Media_Center_expression_language#Tag.28....29:_Returns_a_physical_file_tag_.28rather_than_looking_in_the_database.29) function, but this will be very slow.