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In Reply to: RE: Recursive Cue Creator -HELP ! posted by Tony Lauck on October 08, 2011 at 07:33:40
Am I missing some clever trick?
Not that I know of. As you know, the automated creation of cuesheets relies either on file and folder naming structures or on tags within the files. The OP was asking about Al Jordan's CueSheetCreator and I answered in that light.
Obviously, in your case, automated cuesheet creation is inappropriate - as is my suggestion.
I can see no way to do this automatically, i.e. without some knowledge of the music.
Without some knowledge of the music, I don't see how you'd ever find anything, let alone create metadata.
My collection e.g. is organised by folder names and file names according to fairly strict naming rules. The upside is that it's easy to derive tags and cuesheets automatically from these names, the downside is that the rules have to be stuck to. I decided a long time back to keep tagging simple but accurate and, above all, consistent.
For things like string quartets (where there's usually more than one work on a CD), I tend to split them into separate folders. I can't see myself ever at a concert listening to more than one quartet without a break and I don't "try it at home". I suspect my way takes no longer than yours: the thought of hand-editing 6,000-odd cuefiles is daunting.
. . . your advice of deleting all the existing cue sheets would be a disaster
It probably would but it wasn't you who sought my advice and you are, in any case, most unlikely to need it. Also, the OP had said that he was already facing, if not a disaster, then at least a mess (though not of his own making) and had stressed that he was going to make a backup before proceeding.
So I don't see a looming disaster here.
Dave
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I would have tagged the individual files differently if I had created them. But they came the way they did with the download. Perhaps I would have been better advised to split things into folders, but that creates problems too, as the downloads come with other information such as artwork that is common to all the music.
In general, if the original cue sheets were created manually, then it is probably not a good idea to delete them. If the original cue sheets were created automatically, then it certainly makes sense to delete them and start over. As to backups, doing these kinds of major reorganization is ripe for "cockpit error". So one had better allow for the possibility of destroying one's entire library. This is an OK risk to take, but only if one has at least two backups that reside on separate media.
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
If the original cue sheets were created manually, then it is probably not a good idea to delete them.
No one's suggesting any different. The OP wrote, "The guy . . . has already ripped a thousand CDs and got all structure wrong from the get go . . . so I´ve run the Cue Creator a few times already".
There never was any scholarly, hand-crafted metadata to protect.
This is an OK risk to take, but only if one has at least two backups
Agreed. I'd already written, "you always need at least one full backup, preferably two, of your music data . . . ".
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