On Jul 1, 2008, at 9:24 AM, chinablues wrote: > > As far as I can tell, albums in the 'new music' selection folder base > the 'newness' on the file tag date & time. While this may be the > simplest way to achieve this function, it can get completely out of > whack. Just one thing I did: In Music IP, I got the program to write > the fingerprint to the individual tracks. Of course this changed all > the tracks starting at 3 Doors Down and ending at ZZ Top. Thus the > last (alpha-numerical) tracks were now the newest in the whole list > according to the file date & time. Totally screwed up the New Music > folder...everything there now in reverse alpha-num order! I went > through lots of hoops to try to fix this as I like to use the 'new > music' folder, but fundamentally the basis is wrong when it looks for > file date/time. Anything you do to your music, like replaygain fixes, > a simple edit n MP3Tag or Tag&Rename changes the date/time and so the > whole set up is screwed again... > > I realize I'm not coming up with a solution, just posing a problem.
Using last modified time is the right way to find new files. I think you just missed a setting in MusicIP to retain the modified timestamp on the files when it writes out the tags. _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/beta
