by IanRTaylorUK » Sat Oct 14, 2023 5:07 am
svillardi wrote: ↑Thu Oct 12, 2023 1:11 pm
Let me try to explain better.
I have all my music, over 250,000 songs in Media Monkey. When I go to purchase a new CD, let's say at Amazon, I could copy the names of the songs/artists into a CSV file and use that data to see if I already have these songs without searching for them one-by-one.
I thought, perhaps with a PowerShell script.
Hi Svillardi,
Interesting, at what point would you determine a purchase is warranted?
1). If Album Artist / Album / Title of online candidate is same as MMW Library = No purchase needed.
But what if:
a). Online quality is better e.g. 24bit FLAC vs 320 MP3?
b). Online album is a "Gold" or "Deluxe" or "Remaster" or "Special Edition" perhaps with additional tracks?
c). Newer album with alternative singer / featuring etc. For example, Steve Perry vs Arnel Pineda?
My recent activity has been moving from 320 MP3 to FLAC and I typically just run MMW5 in one screen and online resources in another. Created a few collections to assist e.g. Low Bit Rate, MP3s waiting for FLAC.
I also run both MMW5 and MMW4 (now on the same files / network location) so I can use some of the MMW4 add-ons yet to migrate to MMW5 e.g. Lyricator, Magic Nodes and Tagging Inconsistencies.
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Let me try to explain better.
I have all my music, over 250,000 songs in Media Monkey. When I go to purchase a new CD, let's say at Amazon, I could copy the names of the songs/artists into a CSV file and use that data to see if I already have these songs without searching for them one-by-one.
I thought, perhaps with a PowerShell script.
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Hi Svillardi,
Interesting, at what point would you determine a purchase is warranted?
1). If Album Artist / Album / Title of online candidate is same as MMW Library = No purchase needed.
But what if:
a). Online quality is better e.g. 24bit FLAC vs 320 MP3?
b). Online album is a "Gold" or "Deluxe" or "Remaster" or "Special Edition" perhaps with additional tracks?
c). Newer album with alternative singer / featuring etc. For example, Steve Perry vs Arnel Pineda?
My recent activity has been moving from 320 MP3 to FLAC and I typically just run MMW5 in one screen and online resources in another. Created a few collections to assist e.g. Low Bit Rate, MP3s waiting for FLAC.
I also run both MMW5 and MMW4 (now on the same files / network location) so I can use some of the MMW4 add-ons yet to migrate to MMW5 e.g. Lyricator, Magic Nodes and Tagging Inconsistencies.