by crywalt » Thu Mar 08, 2012 10:23 am
I know this is a very old topic but I just figured out what MediaMonkey is doing and I wanted to share.
I had the same problem as the OP: I used Auto-Organize to rename a bunch of music files on my portable device -- in my case, a USB flash drive. Rather than simply rename the files in place, MediaMonkey *copied* the files to the new filename, leaving the original files there. So I wanted to rename from "<artist> - <title>" to "<track#> - <title>" and ended up with both:
Adrian Legg - The Netsman and the Laird.mp3
02 - The Netsman and the Laird.mp3
And, of course, the copy operation took a long time and used up twice as much space, until I went through and manually removed the duplicates.
Other people in this thread, however, reported that MM did rename files the way they expected. So what was happening to the OP and to me?
Turns out, even if it's an external hard drive and not an iPod, for example, MM treats the device as an audio device, not as a drive. So MM follows whatever your settings are for Auto sync. If you have the device set in Auto sync without the option "Delete files and playlists not included in the Auto-Sync list from the device" then MM *will not delete files from that device*, and that means it also *will not rename files on that device*. So if that Auto sync checkbox is not checked, and you use Auto-organize on the device, MM will *copy* the files to the new name and leave the old versions. If you check that box, however, MM will do what you want, which is rename the files in place.
Problem solved!
I know this is a very old topic but I just figured out what MediaMonkey is doing and I wanted to share.
I had the same problem as the OP: I used Auto-Organize to rename a bunch of music files on my portable device -- in my case, a USB flash drive. Rather than simply rename the files in place, MediaMonkey *copied* the files to the new filename, leaving the original files there. So I wanted to rename from "<artist> - <title>" to "<track#> - <title>" and ended up with both:
Adrian Legg - The Netsman and the Laird.mp3
02 - The Netsman and the Laird.mp3
And, of course, the copy operation took a long time and used up twice as much space, until I went through and manually removed the duplicates.
Other people in this thread, however, reported that MM did rename files the way they expected. So what was happening to the OP and to me?
Turns out, even if it's an external hard drive and not an iPod, for example, MM treats the device as an audio device, not as a drive. So MM follows whatever your settings are for Auto sync. If you have the device set in Auto sync without the option "Delete files and playlists not included in the Auto-Sync list from the device" then MM *will not delete files from that device*, and that means it also *will not rename files on that device*. So if that Auto sync checkbox is not checked, and you use Auto-organize on the device, MM will *copy* the files to the new name and leave the old versions. If you check that box, however, MM will do what you want, which is rename the files in place.
Problem solved!