> Backup, Backup, Backup! > > Before you do any of the large-scale changes described below, BACKUP > FIRST! What if the program were to crash halfway through making these > changes? It has happened.
Backups are a good idea, but this isn't the reason why you might need them when doing mass tagging. If Mp3tag crashes, it can do no worse than trash a single file. Even then I think that's unlikely, as Mp3tag probably writes out a temp file, then replaces the orginal after all of the tags are written. The chances of damage due to a crash are pretty small. The poster above ran into a problem because his settings weren't saved within Mp3tag following a crash, not because the crash damaged the files. He wasn't aware of this and he messed up a large number of tags. The risk is that you'll do something that insn't easily reversible. On a handful of files, this is far from a disaster, as you can easily go back and manually recreate the tags. On a couple thousand files, it becomes an issue. As always, _TEST_ your scripts and automated tasks on a subset of your library. Apply them to large numbers of files only when you're 100% confident that they behave as you expect. When testing Mp3tag mass tagging actions I'll first make a copy of an album, or a few varied albums and apply the tags to the copies first, before unleashing the operation on the whole library. -- JJZolx Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30690 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
