Re: Video Comparer 1 06 Keygen Music
Keena Wiegert
Through various Mac upgrades (MBA to Mini-both with Yosemite), as well as HD storage changes, I've ended up with 3-4 music folders with 80-95% correlation among them. They are not exactly alike, however, and I fear losing some good toons if I don't pick a "master" and transfer missing files in other folders into the master, so I end up with all my tunes in one music folder.
Can anyone point me to an AppleScript or other alternative that will allow me to semi-automate my search process? I've been doing it manually, and I've got about 4-5 weekends of part time efforts into it with no end in sight - boring!
I have seen this question asked multiple times in the 10 years I have been on this forum and not seen a solution. You can see if there are third party solutions out there, though you have to be confident in the skill of the programmer.
You could combine all the media from the various libraries into one library, then handle them all from inside that library using the find duplicates features of iTunes. Yes, it is still manual one-by-one but at least then you are looking at them all in front of you in one place. I also know I have things that iTunes thinks are duplicates but are not really, and some files that are duplicates that iTunes doesn't think are, so in the end if you want 99.99% certainty you have ot do it yourself.
Sorry to bother you, again, but let's say I get everything organized into one master music folder, what do I have to do to ensure proper playlists, etc., at that point? Same thing: Manual effort, one-by-one?
What exactly is the scenario? Do you already have multiple media folders but only one iTunes library? If that is the case, consolidating should get iTunes to put all the files listed in that library in the main active media folder and the others can be deleted (or better yet, put on an archive drive, then delete and see if everything is as it should be).
Thanks. I think I've now got a path to follow, but I'll provide more details and then lay out my plan. I use v12. I upgraded my MBA to Mini, although I had Music on an external drive. After some learning efforts from the Forum I finally figured out to copy my iTunes Media from MBA to Mini, and then use prefs to point to new location of Music folder. I finally got my playlists working, again, which was my biggest concern, but then learned that for some reason my new "master" Music Folder did not have all album or songs within albums, so I started dragging an dropping into new Master. I then learned, belatedly, from the Forum that iTunes doesn't auto-find music dropped into its various folders in the master Music Folder. I'm now listening to tunes that have the incorrect ID on them, e.g., it is a Rolling Stones tune, but my MiniPlayer shows it in a Dusty Springfield cover.
I seek, therefore, to combine all music properly into one Music Folder and then throw away all others (except backups on TimeMachine and CrashPlan). Once that is done, I then want to be sure my links from my playlists are all organized correctly.
I like your experimental design whereby I will combine all into one, separate, from my real Master and then point to that one to ensure that it works ok. I may take it a bit in steps, so I don't invest tons of time only to find that I've mess up along the way.
I'm hoping I can delete iTunes, reinstall, and have iTunes search my whole computer for music files, iTunes will take a copy of everything and put it in an iTunes media folder and then I can save that file while I wipe my hard drive because I have some kind of infected adware slowing my computer to a crawl.
1. iTunes is basically a database. As such, you should never, ever go into the User > Music > iTunes folder and mock around there manually. The only way to avoid creating major issues is to delete, add, modify, etc, files thru the iTunes app interface.
4. To consolidate all your music into a single location go to iTunes > Preferences > Advanced > and check on the "Keep iTunes Media folder organized" and "Copy files to iTunes Media folder when adding to library" options. Click on the OK button.
From your description, I'm not sure if you actually have multiple iTunes folders, or just multiple folders with music files in them, so come back here if you have additional questions, or I mis-interpreted your description.
I do uncompensated tech support for the ClamXav Forum and have to say that neither ClamXav nor any A-V software is nearly as good at getting rid of adware as AdwareMedic, developed by thomas_r. a colleague of mine, operator of TheSafeMac web site and frequent contributor here in the forum on Mac Malware. It will safely and efficiently identify and remove all currently known adware. A-V software may find the installers, but normally leave the installed adware alone since it's considered to be a Potentially Unwanted Application/Process (PUA/PUPP) rather than a malicious infection.
I have music in multiple folders and duplicates in different folders. After I get all the duplicates deleted I guess I will browse my saved search again and locate the various folder and "add" them to a new iTunes library
Note: Most of these software are free so you can try and check for yourself. This is only relating to USB dac connected to PC directly and using a general asio/uac2 driver. If you have a network streamer or signal regenerator/reclocker or any other protocol, the inferences may not carry over. Your mileage may vary on protocol support.
For all of the tests/analysis, I have tried my best to make sure there is no additional zero padding, upsampling/oversampling etc is in play within the server system. I almost always used ASIO with proper buffer configurations wherever supported (almost all of them do except strawberry, mediamonkey etc). More on the technical breakdowns at the end of the analysis.
It is too early to conclude the causation of these changes but a look into USB audio protocol (asynch) gives better clue. It works more like UDP than TCP in that it doesn't guarantee a failure when packets go missing or get corrupted during transmission. There is a possibility they could just get concealed, either by any logic/fsm in the usb receiver, or the fact that a delta Sigma dac can behave as a natural packet loss concealer. I have done experiments and I have found that the more constrained and the more buffer underruns the harsher/grainer the sound gets to and extent and past that I get serious crackle noises. So yep I have experienced till there, on a system that would be shown bitperfect by any software analysis inside the computer. The key to this is to be able to probe at the i2s pins of the usb to i2s.
Gear used - surface book 2015, apogee groove, supra usb cable, burson fun, sparkos ss3601 opamps, shure srh1540, OnePlus 3. Few other headphones, dac and amp were also used to ensure coverage on other parameters, and they fit well with the same descriptions.
1. Windows groove player - really low fidelity. You got a pig fat low pass applied on top of the digital stream (no clue why) and very bad in overall implementation. When you scroll and play back instead of playing from start, you lose details (the only player that I've come across that does this).
3. Foobar2000 - has lots of plugins and features etc. General "I'm an audio enthusiast" circle tries to push this forward but unfortunately sound isn't the best. Its quite poor to be honest, and even music players in android sound better. Outdated asio and wasapi plugins, measurable distortion and just overall sloppy implementation. Quite softened and smooth but in a very artificial and dry manner. A far cry from the best kind of fidelity you can get from windows. Nice tool for streaming from internet though, thanks to variable buffer on the input side of the player.
4. Winyl - the first music player software that had decent fidelity on my tries. You can hear the different textures of bass instruments and the detail/depth/resolution is insane. As my friend calls it, it is DAW level audio quality. A bit artificially sharp sounding due to some buffer management issues. Not the smoothest with bad with low res music, you want that, don't look at this. You can hear a sheen of dither noise (i assume, don't quote me) on top of voices in 16bit music as well. Not quite perfect and not ultimate resolution. I had a short trial with certain background task cleaners/audio enhancers and it did show improvements in sustain detail and left right coherency. Don't know how it uses ram but I wish it could flush the full song to ram and play back from there with high system priority. Peers to winyl are xmplay, musicbee and hqplayer both of which sound almost identical at identical settings.
5. Hqplayer - it's as good as winyl in equivalent settings. But it's a lot more feature rich. Lets you try custom upsampling PCM or DSD conversion options and can help get a better stream to your dac than the internal digital filters which can sometimes be low fidelity in the DACs. Also lets you try high precision fir filter convolution for a usable high precision eq.
6. Musicbee - the best competition to winyl. It's from the same audio library so sounds similar for the most part. But winyl has a more robust port configuration setting afaik and has less artefacts on that front. However winyl let's down in its buffer, while musicbee takes lead there. It doesn't have the winyl characteristic harshness once the buffer is set to load full song to RAM. Has almost all features of foobar, but built in and usable from the get go and actually sounds good. For some reason the player volume is at 50% by default which I recommend you to set to 100% and use the dac control panel to control the volume. Software volume control is most often poor on any player software, unless it's super sophisticated with 64bit precision and stuff like those (roon has those options).
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