cathcam wrote: > You are of course right, while that might not cause all the files to get > backed up again, it still doesn't seem efficient. I'll do a subset and > compare, even if I include the time to actually code the powershell > script I'm guessing it will be faster... and the script will just > iterate through files one at a time. > > Trying to load the entire library into mp3tag was a dead end, 3,500 > files took nearly 12-mins and then it just appeared to come to a > standstill. Rather than mess around loading a directory at a time I'll > work a powershell script this week, and keep a count of how many were > found with artistsort set. > > That said adding a switch in an LMS config that said ArtistSort=yes that > can be switched to No to ignore the tags during scans would be the > simplest. Changing MP3s only fixes it at the time and doesn't prevent > future purchased or acquired MP3 from messing it up again.
It might be not THAT efficient to load all files and sort them to find and modify just a subset. But it's a no-brainer. Just be patient or do something else while mp3tag is working. :) Having said that, how large is your library and where are the files stored? If the files load slowly with mp3tag there might be a bottleneck that the powershell script will hit too? I'd still recommend mp3tag for this job, but of course you could create a ps script doing the same. Just be careful with file paths that contain special characters. Use the -literalpath option of gci. And btw, the script on the site you've linked to doesn't filter for audio files but will also load artwork or whatever files you might have in addition. Note that the Taglib library that is used in that script can not only deal with mp3 but other audio files as well. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ reinholdk's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=36070 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111886 _______________________________________________ Squeezecenter mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezecenter
