JJZolx;483865 Wrote: > That should be the default setting. It's a checkbox in Options > Tags: > 'Preserve file modification time when saving tags'.Doh! You're absolutely > right, and that is the default setting. My problem was I was talking about the wrong software; I meant to say "J. River". That's the app I haven't been able to find a setting for, to force the modified date to change when changing tags. I use MP3Tag for mass changes, but now and then spot something that just needs to be tweaked while I'm using J. River.
JJZolx;483865 Wrote: > But see my response above. Most backup software doesn't need to see a > changed timestamp. Any time you save a file, even if the modified time > is preserved, the ARCHIVE attribute is set. Virtually all backup > software keys off of this attribute, as that is exactly what it was > designed for. If ARCHIVE is set then it means the file has changed and > needs to be archived (backed up). After backing up the file, the > software clears the ARCHIVE attribute. You can view file attributes in > Windows Explorer by right-clicking in the column headers and checking > 'Attributes'. Then you should see all of the file attributes that are > set: A=Archive, S=System, H=Hidden, R=Read-only.Yeah, but I got burned by > some flakiness with the archive flag once and I've been skittish about relying on it ever since. Admittedly it was about ten years ago that I had problems, and I can't even recall now whether it was because Windows wasn't consistent about setting/resetting it, or the backup software I was using at the time (backing up to tape, fer gossakes!), but something wasn't working right, and I got bitten. And once bitten, as they say. Besides, I believe a rescan of music files for "new and changed" bases its selection on the modified data/timestamp, so if that hasn't changed, any tag changes I've made (in J. River, not MP3Tag) don't get picked up unless I do a full rescan. So to ask the right question: does anybody using J. River (MeSue?) know of a way to force it to update the file's "modified" date & time when tags are changed? -- Dogberry2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dogberry2's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=18883 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=69764 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list ripping@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
