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RE: Not so...

Posted by Kenny B (A) on March 15, 2012 at 15:40:38

In Reply to: RE: Not so... posted by kuma on March 15, 2012 at 00:33:18:

Getting back to Pure Vinyl, my understanding via a friend who was using the PV informed that its drawback is that the splitted files sit within THEIR software on the replay source computer. So if you were to move that files to NAS, you lose all the tune splitting info is my understanding.

I can see where your friend might be coming from. What he says is half right.

There are two ways to add songs to iTunes using Pure Vinyl: 1) you can split the songs and add them yourself, or 2) you can create bookmark files which PV will add to iTunes.

Bookmarks, according to the manual, are virtual tracks placed in iTunes that "point to offsets in the original recording". "This avoids having to commit extra disk space for the rendered tracks if you don't need the tracks to be portable".

If the original recording is moved, the bookmarks will be broken since they will still be pointing at the old location.

The splits aren't lost though. These are still retained in the "sidecar" file that PV creates, which is stored in the same directory as the original recording. It's fairly easy to regenerate the iTunes bookmarks for a single album. It would be a huge hassle to do this for many albums.

The key takeaway here is that some consideration should be given to where you store your files - and whether you split songs or create bookmarks. I have opted to split the songs and drop them into iTunes manually.

Also, if one really wanted to move these files to a NAS, the use of a symbolic link or folder alias could fool these bookmarks into thing the original files had not been moved.

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