Auto - Update Filepath

[dlinkwit27]

Perhaps this is another one for Dr0 (who's babies I still want to have ) but I would like it if winamp automatically updated the filepath to my songs. Consider the following:

My media library currently auto scans every two hours the folder c:\music and all of it's subfolders.

Lets say I have song A in c:\music\downloaded and it is in my playlist. I decide to spend an hour organizing my music.

I create a new folder (c:\music\songaartist\songaalbum) and move song A into it. Because it is in the c:\music folder, on the next media library scan it will be scanned and put into the media library.

What I want is for winamp to, on the scheduled scan, realize that c:\music\downloaded\songa.mp3 is gone, and there is a song c:\music\songaartist\songaalbum\songa.mp3 which has an identical filename, and identical size (and possible id3 info) and fix the song in the playlist so that I don't have to rem>>mis>>all dead files, then add all the songs that were on there that I moved.

Any takers?

[billyvnilly]

im not a taker but do have suggestions...

maybe have winamp add something to the id3, like in comments that is traceable.

OR

when winamp doesnt find a file, uno how it just skips it, instead, have the option of a dialog box popping up saying it cant find so-and-so, would u like to browse? Windows does this, like if a shortcut on ur desktop is broken

[jojo 544]

Originally posted by billyvnilly
option of a dialog box popping up saying it cant find so-and-so, would u like to browse? [/B]

That would be awsome, and if a similar song is in the library why not make winamp directly suggest this file, to replace the 'dead' one?

Finding same or similar files can't be so hard to do, i saw it in some plugins already, with options for 'exact' same, almost same, +/- same and so on, i think in 5 different levels, checking length, name, bitrate...

I think this is something for a plugin job.
If one can do it, it's got to be Dro

[dlinkwit27]

Originally posted by billyvnilly
when winamp doesnt find a file, uno how it just skips it, instead, have the option of a dialog box popping up saying it cant find so-and-so, would u like to browse? Windows does this, like if a shortcut on ur desktop is broken

but when I organize, I sort out about 5-10 albums at a time. thats about 50-100 songs I really don't want to individually browse for. It'd be easier to do it the old way of adding them all and remove the missing.

[billyvnilly]

@dlink but wouldnt u agree it would be a good option.

it could be an option that could be turned off by default.

[jojo 544]

OK, some more possible options:

1) Show similar or same files, and select one of your choise to replace the broken link.

2) Auto replace when a exact same file is found

3) Browse to look for file manualy

4) do nothing

Now that would really rock

[moymike]

How about this idea....

From ML, have a right click choice to RENAME FILE based on tag.

Within the ML options, you store a rename pattern. Your example would be: <artist>\<album>\<song>.

Then all you would have to do is clean up your tags, then you could rename groups of songs directly from ML.

Oh, and since tags don't have to be unique, follow the Windows convension on the renames, that duplicates would have a "(2)", "(3)", ... after them.

[electricmime]

why not just scan the folder where you moved the file(or the top folder... you dont have to do the sub directories) (if you have like a dl folder an a archive folder)

and then click remove missing files...

it seems alot easier than winamp auto searching your computer for files with the same id3 tags, auto replacing it, and then looking for similar ones and giving you going through the similar ones and picking out which one you like

though i would really like the feature when you play something it pops up "file not found" and then you find it (or at least an option when you right click on a song)

[moymike]

Being able to rename from within ML removes all those problems...

It also would allow ML to keep all your data on the song, including the rating info.

Also, when renaming within ML, ML could fix playlists at the same time the rename takes place.

If you rename outside of ML, well.. your bad.

Wouldn't this feature rock?

[electricmime]

no... he doesnt want to rename the files, he wants to move them, and then the ml automatically detect that they have been moved and then automatically find them. so i dont see how renaming through the ml would fix anything..

[billyvnilly]

Originally posted by dlinkwit27
but when I organize, I sort out about 5-10 albums at a time. thats about 50-100 songs I really don't want to individually browse for. It'd be easier to do it the old way of adding them all and remove the missing.

Here is a solution as of now. close winamp. open all the playlists up with EditPad, and use find and replace to change all of the paths. read it in one of djegg's posts.

although this may still take awhile if u have as many songs as u say.

[jojo 544]

Originally posted by electricmime
no... he doesnt want to rename the files, he wants to move them, and then the ml automatically detect that they have been moved and then automatically find them. so i dont see how renaming through the ml would fix anything..

I'ts not rename but it's neither rescanning the lib. that is the problem. As i understood well the issue is to fix broken links in PLAYLISTS.
Some plugin for playlisteditor should be able to do this, using the (updated and rescanned) library to find the new location of the missing links.

Playlists can indeed be fixed with wordpad or some editor with find & replace function. I already did it myself, and for big groups of files it's very usefull, but for many small groups of files in different folders a kind of 'fix playlist' plugin would realy be welcome.

[moymike]

Originally posted by electricmime
no... he doesnt want to rename the files, he wants to move them, and then the ml automatically detect that they have been moved and then automatically find them. so i dont see how renaming through the ml would fix anything..

I take it you have not looked at some of the nicer renamer; tag->filename programs.

They allow you to rename files to normal standards:
<artist> - <album> - <title>

And they also allow you to rename with path changes using the tag information:
<artist>\<album>\<artist> - <title>

Using this, you start at the root directory of your music, and with a simple rename, a file can change from:

Romeo Void - Benefactor - Never Say Never
to
\Romeo Void\Benefactor\Romeo Void - Never Say Never

This becomes a rename + move all at once, based on how you setup your rename.

The only requirements are...
- You need to have a root directory for you music.
- You have to have tag information to base the filenames on.

ML uses a root directory, which I would expect most of us probably have somewhere under the standard Windows My Music directory.

If this rename method where available within Winamp, then the original poster could use it to MOVE + RENAME + ORGANIZE his collection. Since the rename is being done within ML, Winamp could scan and fix playlists as the renames occur.

This beats the heck out of trying to scan and find files that where moved or renamed outside of Winamp. Now you see how?

[jojo 544]

Still missing the point :/
playlist entries are not fixed this way

[electricmime]

just rightclick on the file in the playlist and click 'playlist entry'

or type ctrl e

thats what i want available in the ml, right now you have to do it in the playlist then right click-send to-add to library... but i still dont think the ml renamer would help anything...