Need better reporting, with filespec data, not just tag data
Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2018 1:48 pm
What I need from reports is two things:
1) an artifact to help me located incomplete media content (data) within my collection, that has evolved over decades.
2) a concise list of all my artist/albums to carry with me, so that I can avoid buying things I already own.
As far as I can tell, the existing output serves neither of these needs well, if at all.
Of course everyone wants something different, but a .CSV (or similar format) with complete filespec, file attributes, and TAG attributes would be a good source file from which users could produce whatever they wanted.
Excel format is OK, but it probably needs to be .XLSX now, and not .XLS, even though it currently isn't natively recognized as either. .CSV can be imported by Excel, or by Access or other programs.
The key deficiency now is that the filespec data is missing! I can't tell WHERE the errant files are on my disc(s)!
The other issue is that Media Monkey can only report what is in the "library" and not directly from a filespec (drives, folders and trees under the "My Computer" section below all the virtual collections.
1) an artifact to help me located incomplete media content (data) within my collection, that has evolved over decades.
2) a concise list of all my artist/albums to carry with me, so that I can avoid buying things I already own.
As far as I can tell, the existing output serves neither of these needs well, if at all.
Of course everyone wants something different, but a .CSV (or similar format) with complete filespec, file attributes, and TAG attributes would be a good source file from which users could produce whatever they wanted.
Excel format is OK, but it probably needs to be .XLSX now, and not .XLS, even though it currently isn't natively recognized as either. .CSV can be imported by Excel, or by Access or other programs.
The key deficiency now is that the filespec data is missing! I can't tell WHERE the errant files are on my disc(s)!
The other issue is that Media Monkey can only report what is in the "library" and not directly from a filespec (drives, folders and trees under the "My Computer" section below all the virtual collections.