not remembering settings destination point BUG#5795

[jarrycanada]

http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewto ... 08#p208608

I was helping some people here in the forums, with a problem with syncing the MM with my fuze player. when I noticed a strange problem using the lateist verison of MM and windows xp pro sp3. I noticed the MM doesn't want to remember the foldering location for audiobooks and Music. You see the fuze has folders for Podcast, Music and audiobooks. but if I hit custemize and then destination point \Audiobooks\<Album>\<Filename> when I goto sync later it will not remember that location. \Audiobooks\<Album>\<Filename> what gives?


here is a picture of what I am talking about.

[rovingcowboy]

could possibley be removing the roman number at the end of the title and just using the first setting for the name.

[jarrycanada]

Thats just the cursor blinking, in the screen shot. it wasn't in the code. sorry about that. notice how darker it is then the texted.

whats strange about this is it will let me add the address and will move the data in question to the player but when I shut MM down and reopen it that code is gone... thats the bug in a shorter verison of my description.

Could someone please try this and see if it does it for you?

[rovingcowboy]

i can't see any animated thing blinking.

what i was saying is that monkey might be seeing the firstpart is the same then there is a space after the word tower before the number.

he might be showing you that in the list but in the database he might be removing the last part and merging them all in the same listing as the first one. so dark tower I and dark tower II and dark tower III all become
dark tower and the location for that is where the 2 3 4 and other dark towers are going to? did you check that and see if they are infact there.


it sounds like something they need to fix in the programs code to me.

[jarrycanada]

Ya it moves just fine, didn't notice the path name being so long tell now but it seemed to move alright, only upsetting thing is MM seems to make a task that is very simple to do much harder then it needs to be. moving audio books to a fuze player.

I've already listen to and read all of the dark tower books but 7 so having them on my player isn't important to me.

the animated blinking can be seen in my screen shot. right at the end of \Audiobooks\<Album>\<Filename> you can see a line I

[nohitter151]

What are the exact steps to reproduce this problem? After I save some custom destination point, it seems that MM remembers it just fine. Do you need to sync with a device before checking the destination again, and only then the setting is forgotten?

[jarrycanada]

as soon as I close MM and reopen it say the next day, to move another book to the player or anything I noitce that the destination is back to the default and not the one I created. if I want to move a new book it will go back to the default path and not the one I have fixed. I have too many books.


see how the next new book Catcher in the rye is set at Default. thats the problem. shouldn't it remember that path I set each time?

it will remember the path of the ones I've already moved to the Fuze. here is what i am doing. I open MM and click on the fuze and right mouse click, config device, then hit audiobooks folder and if I select a path. \Audiobooks\<Album>\<Filename> click ok and hit the sync button, but when I return it will not remember those settings for new books, just for old ones. so my question is, is there some way I can set it to alwasy use that path ? Like we can with podcasts?

[jarrycanada]

nohitter151 did I give a valid description to the problem?

I think MM makes moving Music and audiobooks to the fuze a bit too unnecessarily complicated for my taste. I mean In explorer it's as simple as drag and droping a folder to the player. but if MM is going to make me type in \Audiobooks\ each time I feel the need to add music or a book then I am just not going to use it for that.

there needs to be a setting that is like the podcast settings to lock in that location. Maybe a ini setting, is there a ini setting I don't know about?

[nohitter151]

Well you could just make a custom rule in your destination path, something like:

$If(<Genre>=Audiobook,Audiobook\<Album>,Music\)<Filename>

Anyway, I was finally able to reproduce your problem, the settings aren't saved after you close MM. I've added it to the bug tracker at:
http://www.ventismedia.com/mantis/view.php?id=5795

[jarrycanada]

nohitter151, all these commends are reminding me of my ms dos days. tell me, does this seem right, $If(<Album>=tech5,<Album>-<Track#>)<Title> I was going to use this in the options, Podcast, download podcasts to destination. it works so far but the track number is 00 not the track number of the show. yet the show has a track number in the IDtag, what gives?

http://www.mevio.com/feeds/tech5.xml

[nohitter151]

nohitter151, all these commends are reminding me of my ms dos days. tell me, does this seem right, $If(<Album>=tech5,<Album>-<Track#>)<Title> I was going to use this in the options, Podcast, download podcasts to destination. it works so far but the track number is 00 not the track number of the show. yet the show has a track number in the IDtag, what gives?

http://www.mevio.com/feeds/tech5.xml

$If(<Album>=tech5,<Album>-<Track#>)<Title>

Well, this isn't a very good mask. You specify that if the Album name is "tech5", that you should save it as <Album>-<Track#><Title>. However, for any other tracks where album name is not tech5, it will just be saved as <Title>. Is that what you are trying to achieve?

Anyway, <Track#> should use the track number displayed in MediaMonkey, I have never experienced anything other than that. I downloaded an episode of the podcast you left a URL for and noticed that no track number is listed, so I'd guess that is your problem.

[jarrycanada]

strange I get the track number in the episode I downloaded right now.


so why would it not take that information and place it into the file name?.

every podcast I download seems to have the album title in the title listing such as "Daily Giz Wiz 808: Staples 10 Sheet Micro Cut"

http://leoville.tv/podcasts/dgw.xml

so if I used <Album> - <Track #> - <Title>, i'll get a listing of"Daily Giz Wiz - 808 - Daily Giz Wiz 808: Staples 10 Sheet Micro Cut" so i don't know how to deal with that. but Tech5 has no Album name in the title... so there is no clear way to manage file names for every podcast that gets downloaded... You understand what I am saying?

IF I leave it at nothing. I get the filename "Daily Giz Wiz - Daily Giz Wiz 850- Altec Lansing 604.mp3"

the worst one is extreme tech because they don't seem to reliably have the same fields filled in right places. it changes from show to show too . you would think people who do a technology show would get there podcast right. Hell no. http://feeds2.feedburner.com/ziffdavis/ ... echpodcast ahh I am getting a head headache from all of this.
"ExtremeTech - ExtremeTech.com Podcast May 5, 2009- #171 $500 Gaming PC and ET Gaming Update.mp3"

[jarrycanada]

I got it, I got it. It will not do it in the podcast download part of MM but what works better is setting up rules in the auto-organize settings. then I could setup a rule for podcasts based on Genres.

that works so much better. Tech5 now shows the Track number. Not sure why it couldn't do this in the podcast part but that doesn't matter now.

[jarrycanada]

Looks like I found another bug, auto organizer. if you set a Genres Criteria to filter say Podcasts and set up a rule, like I have $If(<Album>=tech5,<Album> - <Track#>-)$If(<Album>=The Paul Goebel Show,<Album>-) <Title> if you do any changes to the library and then close MM and reopen it later. it will forget the Genres setting you picked. say you only want media monkey to organize files by genres. it seems to forget that setting every day.

[nohitter151]

Looks like I found another bug, auto organizer. if you set a Genres Criteria to filter say Podcasts and set up a rule, like I have $If(<Album>=tech5,<Album> - <Track#>-)$If(<Album>=The Paul Goebel Show,<Album>-) <Title> if you do any changes to the library and then close MM and reopen it later. it will forget the Genres setting you picked. say you only want media monkey to organize files by genres. it seems to forget that setting every day.

Sorry, but I can't reproduce this one. The setting is remembered for me when I make that change even after closing MM.