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Libation: Liberate your Library
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Ability to re-convert to Mp3 #926

Open frank392a opened 1 week ago

frank392a commented 1 week ago

Please consider adding the feature to re-convert to MP3s. This would be helpful for someone who has converted their entire library to MP3 only to realize later that converting to a lower quality could save hard disk space.

Thank you so very much!!!

rmcrackan commented 1 week ago

Good idea. For now, you can change to your desired setting then re-download. To re-download a single book, right click. For the whole library, go to Visible books and manually set download status to 'not downloaded'. On your next download, all books with a red stop light will be re-downloaded with your new settings.

CLHatch commented 1 week ago

Good idea. For now, you can change to your desired setting then re-download. To re-download a single book, right click. For the whole library, go to Visible books and manually set download status to 'not downloaded'. On your next download, all books with a red stop light will be re-downloaded with your new settings.

I'm not sure I've tried it, but I think I read previously that when doing this, the old files remain, don't they? That could be an issue, say if you're changed whether or not it outputs chapters as individual files.

rmcrackan commented 1 week ago

@CLHatch Correct. If you don't want the old files, you'll have to delete those yourself, preferably before doing a new download.

Libation generates new files but it will not move, name, or remove files, including those created by Libation. Not now; not ever. The edge cases are legion and no 2 people would agree on the solutions.