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Matt

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Removing Feature: Ignore small files
« on: June 27, 2006, 05:19:37 pm »

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

Any objections?
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Re: Removing Feature: Ignore small files
« Reply #1 on: June 27, 2006, 05:26:01 pm »

none here, banish it!
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Re: Removing Feature: Ignore small files
« Reply #2 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.
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Re: Removing Feature: Ignore small files
« Reply #3 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.

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Re: Removing Feature: Ignore small files
« Reply #4 on: June 27, 2006, 06:00:03 pm »

I won't miss it.
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Re: Removing Feature: Ignore small files
« Reply #5 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.
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Re: Removing Feature: Ignore small files
« Reply #6 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
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Re: Removing Feature: Ignore small files
« Reply #7 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.
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Re: Removing Feature: Ignore small files
« Reply #8 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.

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Re: Removing Feature: Ignore small files
« Reply #9 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.
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Re: Removing Feature: Ignore small files
« Reply #10 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.
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Re: Removing Feature: Ignore small files
« Reply #11 on: June 28, 2006, 11:59:45 am »

I'm not gonna miss it.
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Re: Removing Feature: Ignore small files
« Reply #12 on: June 28, 2006, 12:02:16 pm »

It's gone.  Thanks everyone.
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