by billfalls » Fri Jul 07, 2023 7:25 pm
Thanks, Peke. Your instructions yesterday worked (once I figured out which set of MMW headers gave access to the file properties) and I was able to change all the Classical file types to Music. I changed the Classical Music genre name to Music and will leave it that way, since it's such a huge group that I never filter on it when selecting music to play. Then I discovered that I could do the same to my phone SD music files in MMW.
I also discovered the tool for listing and cleaning up duplicates. That took hours because iTunes on Windows, it turns out, had been duplicating all my imported music (from Amazon Music, Bandcamp, vinyl I'd digitized, etc., even the old iTunes Music folder) into the iTunes Media folder. That cleanup eliminated hundreds of tracks from my PC.
But after a sync from MMA there were still about 2,000 fewer music files on my phone SD card than in the MMW library. So now I've deleted all music files from the SD card and am doing a clean sync from MMA. It looks like it'll run for a few hours, even over USB. I'll report back on the result but the progress bar still shows 6,020 files to download, about 2,000 fewer than in MMW.
Thanks, Peke. Your instructions yesterday worked (once I figured out which set of MMW headers gave access to the file properties) and I was able to change all the Classical file types to Music. I changed the Classical Music genre name to Music and will leave it that way, since it's such a huge group that I never filter on it when selecting music to play. Then I discovered that I could do the same to my phone SD music files in MMW.
I also discovered the tool for listing and cleaning up duplicates. That took hours because iTunes on Windows, it turns out, had been duplicating all my imported music (from Amazon Music, Bandcamp, vinyl I'd digitized, etc., even the old iTunes Music folder) into the iTunes Media folder. That cleanup eliminated hundreds of tracks from my PC.
But after a sync from MMA there were still about 2,000 fewer music files on my phone SD card than in the MMW library. So now I've deleted all music files from the SD card and am doing a clean sync from MMA. It looks like it'll run for a few hours, even over USB. I'll report back on the result but the progress bar still shows 6,020 files to download, about 2,000 fewer than in MMW.