I put that thread in a larger oneā¦ Studio threadā¦ Same for Origin sadly.
Today i had to move two letters of my A-Z Library on two External drives.
Before it was: Disco 1 (A to J) Disco 2 (K to Z)
Shut down Audirvana, even restart Mac, synced my library, then saved it away.
Moved K and L folders to Disco 1
Now is: Disco 1 (A-L) Disco 2 (M-Z)
As i guessed it, Audirvana See those 2 folders now as all new albumsā¦ 341 Albums in K and L.
Lost all my play counts on them (14 days) to play them in a row to regain
at least 1 play count for each albums.
Lost again all the release dates of those albums that were before 1970 and under. i Had to put them all of those againā¦
At first when i restarted JRiver after the move, i was surprised to see those K and L albums in my JRiver new Albumsā¦ But after the sync of the same libraryā¦ they vanished from the recent albums playlistā¦
NOW, this is what we wantā¦ those albums didnāt change, same dates in the finder, this is what Audirvana should seeā¦ How different JRiver see those paths of albums in a computer?
It seems that Audirvana is looking at the first folder in the Path to see changesā¦
instead of looking at the last folder in the chain to mark it as new,
like i think JRiver doā¦ smarter i think!!
Nothing changed in the āWhat a wonderful worldā of Louis Armstrong folder
Nothing changed in my Louis Armstrong folderā¦
Nothing changed in All the Groups in the L folder tooā¦
Adding like Artist like Armstrong is in the the year of having to do all is albums release date tag
since mostly all are before 1971
I donāt see the logic of moving files around in folders if the library is metadata driven to begin with.
It seems AudirvÄna doesnāt fingerprint files, as some other software programs do. I think you either have to accept that or use software that fits your way of managing your library better.
With a metadata organised program like Audirvana you can fill up your hard drives randomly.
The fact you want to have it organised on disk alphabetical is a choice you make ā which is fine ā but it is a strong to suggest Audirvana s*cks because it doesnāt follow your organisation method by not retaining usage statistics, because it sees a move as a removal / addition action and not as a file move.
The word s*cks is a bit strong and, in my opinion, not a fair assessment.
You can always open a new request in the User Voice to add fingerprinting and keep usage statistics. Maybe they will honour the request, maybe they donāt.
You have all your music files in one disc with no folders ?
no albums with flac in it or else? try to move your pink floyd album Dark Side into The Beatlesā¦ on the same hard Driveā¦ it will be like a new one alsoā¦
OK wishing fingerprints !!!,
since it was brought like 3 years ago to Damien, donāt think it will happen.
Like the doubles in the database happening and the ghost filesā¦
i still backup my database DAILY elsewhere, just in case again.
Is it so hard and many programming hours to implement files with fingerprints??
Iām pretty sure he knows how things work (or donāt) around here. Heās welcome to his opinion just as much as you are. Heās helped out more around here than you are apparently aware of. Have a good one @jmtennapel
