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#184422 - 13/10/2003 19:59 Two Questions...
damone
stranger

Registered: 28/01/2002
Posts: 29
Actually I had a third question but can't remember it right now...

1) If my PC's hard drive ever crashes and I lose all my mp3's, can I get them off of my empeg with all of the original filenames and tags? If so, how? And is it possible to maintain the directory structure the files were in on my PC?

2) I want to be able to keep my mp3's in sync from my PC to my empeg and haven't found out a way to do this. Currently I just select my entire mp3 folder in explorer and drag it into the playlists folder in emplode, and it skips all the duplicates and adds only new songs, BUT it won't delete any songs that aren't on my PC anymore. As of now I have about 12 more songs on my empeg than on my PC and it's impossible for me to remember which songs they were.


My files are arranged like so: d:\mp3\Arist\Album\Artist - Album - Track# - Title.mp3

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#184423 - 13/10/2003 20:03 Re: Two Questions... [Re: damone]
SE_Sport_Driver
carpal tunnel

Registered: 05/01/2001
Posts: 4903
Loc: Detroit, MI USA
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#184424 - 13/10/2003 20:52 Re: Two Questions... [Re: SE_Sport_Driver]
damone
stranger

Registered: 28/01/2002
Posts: 29
"This system isn't perfect, though. There are some important things to remember:

This doesn't help you with deletions. If you delete a song from the PC, it won't get deleted from the player. You still have to do those manually."

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#184425 - 14/10/2003 00:18 Re: Two Questions... [Re: damone]
mtempsch
pooh-bah

Registered: 02/06/2000
Posts: 1996
Loc: Gothenburg, Sweden
Best bet for keeping PC & empeg in sync is probably mp3tofid (creates the corresponding fids on disk on the PC) and then using rsync to keep that synced with the empeg.

/Michael
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#184426 - 14/10/2003 02:13 Re: Two Questions... [Re: mtempsch]
Roger
carpal tunnel

Registered: 18/01/2000
Posts: 5682
Loc: London, UK
...and the best bet for (pre-emptively) dealing with a dead PC hard disk is a DVD writer.
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