by Jukebox » Mon Oct 17, 2016 11:13 pm
I noticed something worrying recently. I wanted to convert a huge number of tracks from flac to VBR0 mp3. I had them in a folder on my main music drive which was intentionally not included in my library. I opened this folder & selected all - to select everything in dozens of flac album folders. I selected Convert Format & set it running.
I found, when checking that it had stalled on converting a track that it shouldn't have been attempting to convert in the first place. On checking, I found it had reconverted mp3 files in a totally separate folder, which was in my library, to mp3. Luckily, I think it only affected files in that particular subfolder, which were all bought from a specific website, which no longer exists (it closed down due to constant hacking attacks). All these files were dated 2008-2009, so all I needed to do there was replace all the ones that now showed a 2016 date from my backup drive. It turned out that the same thing had happened a few weeks earlier, as some files were dated September this year. I have no idea why this is happening, but I can never be certain that mp3 files in one of the other folders weren't re-encoded too, which is obviously not good.
I noticed something worrying recently. I wanted to convert a huge number of tracks from flac to VBR0 mp3. I had them in a folder on my main music drive which was intentionally not included in my library. I opened this folder & selected all - to select everything in dozens of flac album folders. I selected Convert Format & set it running.
I found, when checking that it had stalled on converting a track that it shouldn't have been attempting to convert in the first place. On checking, I found it had reconverted mp3 files in a totally separate folder, which was in my library, to mp3. Luckily, I think it only affected files in that particular subfolder, which were all bought from a specific website, which no longer exists (it closed down due to constant hacking attacks). All these files were dated 2008-2009, so all I needed to do there was replace all the ones that now showed a 2016 date from my backup drive. It turned out that the same thing had happened a few weeks earlier, as some files were dated September this year. I have no idea why this is happening, but I can never be certain that mp3 files in one of the other folders weren't re-encoded too, which is obviously not good.