Easier folder management please!
Iguanapaws
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My situation is that I have a folder of low res files which I use to sync with my device, and a folder of hi-res files that I would prefer to use for playing through Astiga. Currently, both of these folder are being synced, so when I do a search on Astiga it often pulls up duplicate results. Ideally I'd like to be able to remove low-res file folders from the library where there is duplication, but this is currently really difficult - I believe I need to manually add in every single folder address. For me, who uses /hi res folder/artist name/album title, to dedupe my current library I'd need to do this roughly about 200 times!
As a feature request, I would love it if you could select multiple folders from the folder browser, then remove them from the library in one go. It would still be a bit of a pain, but would still save hours.
Thanks!
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Are the files separated into separate parent folders? If so, have you tried Remove a folder ?
That should allow you to remove all files from a common parent folder.
Would another way of achieving this be to add search parameters?
Hi, thanks for the reply.
The "Remove a folder" thing is what I'm doing now, but as I say, I'd need to do this 200 times to remove all the folders I need. There aren't any common parent folders I could safely remove. If I can give an example, I might have a first folder which is the back up of my device, which includes a parent folder:
Devicebackup/artist name/
then within that I'd have folders for each (MP3) album, e.g.:
Devicebackup/Venetian Snares/Infolepsy, Devicebackup/Venetian Snares/Defluxion, Devicebackup/Venetian Snares/Detrimentalist etc.
I've also got my Hi res folder:
Hires/artist name/
and folders for each (FLAC) album within that.
Supposing I had a hi res version of Infolepsy, at Hires/Venetian Snares/InfolepsyFLAC, I would want to remove Devicebackup/Venetian Snares/Infolepsy from the library so that only the hi res version is indexed. Unfortunately, I don't have hi res versions of Defluxion or Detrimentalist, so if I removed Devicebackup/Venetian Snares/ completely I would lose those two albums from the library.
I'm not sure how the search parameter idea would work. Maybe what would help is when you do a search, results are split by folder location?
At the moment, when I search for infolepsy, I get the results from both versions mixed together (I can't seem to post a screenshot sorry) into one double length album, presumably because they have identical tags. If there was a way of discriminating between those two versions on the basis of file type or location, that would make usability easier for me.
Hope that helps.
What about the option to synch HiRes files at a lower bit rate on mobile app? This could solve your problem, so you don't need to duplicate files at different bit rates.
Thanks, I understand the problem.
I'm not sure how the search parameter idea would work. Maybe what would help is when you do a search, results are split by folder location?
I meant the search could be tuned to only look for certain file formats, bitrates, whatever...
Thanks, yeah, I guess that would be a help.
Thanks. I can definitely see how the remove-parent-folder approach has limited effectiveness; I suspect most people don't store their music in that way (for me, my lossless is mixed in with my very old OGGs and MP3s).
I may be missing something, but can't you just set only the Hires folder as the source to sync from in Astiga?
Much of my music isn't hi res though, and so not in the hi res folder.