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Two letters better than MetaX
https://metaz.maven-group.org/
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iTunes Importing #28

Open Woolfy opened 11 years ago

Woolfy commented 11 years ago

Meatz is absolutely brilliant especially the auto import into iTunes but that is where it goes wrong.

After the import all tags and artwork are stripped out and if I try to edit them in iTunes the file becomes unplayable.

Any ideas.

griff commented 11 years ago

It sounds like MetaZ is corrupting the file. Or at least making a small corruption in the file worse. Can you still edit the file in MetaZ after they become unplayable?

Woolfy commented 11 years ago

Thanks for getting back to me so quickly.

If I try to drop the file in iTunes into Metaz it tells me the file is in an unsupported format ?

I just can't win

Keith Woolf

On 8 Nov 2012, at 23:46, Brian Olsen notifications@github.com wrote:

It sounds like MetaZ is corrupting the file. Or at least making a small corruption in the file worse. Can you still edit the file in MetaZ after they become unplayable?

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griff commented 11 years ago

Yep that sounds like the files are permanently corrupted.

Depending on wether you have changed the default settings of MetaZ or not you should be able to recover the damaged files.

MetaZ does its changes by writing to a new file and then exchanging the new file for the old when completed. What it does with the old file depends on a few settings and wether the drive the files are on support moving things to trash. If the preference "put originals in Trash" is set and the drive supports that it simply moves the original file to the trash and you can recover it from there. If moving to trash fails, like when the file resides on a network drive, the next preference kicks in where the default is to keep the original file around but with the postfix Backup.

Woolfy commented 11 years ago

After lots of work over the weekend I am beginning to think it is my iTunes, which resides on a NAS.

I have read that there were problems with the use of a NAS for iTunes but had thought this fixed.

I have imported movies not using Metaz and although they appear to go in OK some time later they lose their artwork and it is impossible to re-insert it.

I have also had lots of other weird issues.

Thanks for your help.

Keith Woolf

On 9 Nov 2012, at 16:24, Brian Olsen notifications@github.com wrote:

Yep that sounds like the files are permanently corrupted.

Depending on wether you have changed the default settings of MetaZ or not you should be able to recover the damaged files.

MetaZ does its changes by writing to a new file and then exchanging the new file for the old when completed. What it does with the old file depends on a few settings and wether the drive the files are on support moving things to trash. If the preference "put originals in Trash" is set and the drive supports that it simply moves the original file to the trash and you can recover it from there. If moving to trash fails, like when the file resides on a network drive, the next preference kicks in where the default is to keep the original file around but with the postfix Backup.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub.