Having just added a new drive, I'm now taking the opportunity to replace some old WMA files with some nice new FLACs. Unfortunately, I have a large number of playlists (mainly m3u's, and a very few wpl's) that now have big missing chunks.
(For similar reasons, I've yet to get round to reconciling artists' work spread across multiple folders - "The Coral" and "Coral", "Paul Weller" and "Weller, Paul", etc. The tags are (largely) consistent, but the folders are not.) Can anyone suggest some decent tools (that run in WinXP) to repair playlists in situations like this? Ideally, I'd like something that attempts to rediscover missing links, (a) by looking for <path>\<file>.flac; (b) by looking for similar matches (treating "The Artist" and "artist" as synonymous, ditto for "Bar, Foo" and "Foo Bar"); (c) looking for common synonyms (such as "&" and "and"). (I could probably write a Perl script that would do something like this, but it would take me a while!) As a second-best, I'd settle for something that lets me see the holes in the playlist (with the missing filename), and lets me drag-and-drop the correct files into place. foobar2k seems to omit non-existent files from the playlist; ditto for mp3tag. Holes are obvious in MediaMonkey, but it only shows the track title (from which I can't always guess the artist or album!), and I can't find a simple way to add replacements (at least, not without lots of navigation both away from and then back to the playlist, for each addition). The only approach that's worked for me before is to use MediaMonkey to show up the holes, and then use a text editor on the playlist file to change the filenames by hand. I really don't fancy doing that again! I suppose I could load the playlist into SlimServer / SqueezeCenter, add the missing tracks, then save it again; but then I couldn't listen to something else whilst doing it! (Hmm: I've just discovered a slightly better approach: I could use MM to show up the holes, and repair by drag-and-drop in foobar2k (which I didn't know was possible until a second ago). Still a bit clunky, and I'd have to remove the dead refs afterwards, but better than editing by hand!) -- Brian -- Brian Ritchie ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Brian Ritchie's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2319 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42597 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
