Here's a riddle for you guys... I recently installed Main Squeeze Channel for Roku and Logitech Media Server on my PC, which work together to stream music from PC to Roku. I generated a playlist in Winamp that included my entire music collection for the purposes of being able to load this playlist through the Main Squeeze Roku channel. I moved the .m3u file into the root folder of my music library. I have subfolders consisting of artists then album folders within the artist folders which contain the actual music files. The problem is this... One of these programs have somehow moved all my music files out of the folders to the root folder (Music) and has also renamed all my music files as follows...
01 -.mp3
01 -_1.mp3
01 -_2.mp3
and so on.
Does anybody know what happened and if I can get it back to the way it was before?
Please help...
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2012-06-19, 13:19 #1Junior Member
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Music files moved out of subfolders into main folder and renamed without permission!
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2012-06-19, 13:32 #2Senior Member
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not sure, but it wouldn't be LMS. Squeezebox stuff doesn't touch your files in terms of moving, naming, etc.
Originally Posted by PeaveyAxe
Location 1: VortexBox Appliance 6TB (2.2) > LMS 7.7.2 > Transporter, Touch, Boom, Radio w/Battery (all ethernet)
Location 2: VBA 3TB (2.2) > LMS 7.7.2 > Touch > Benchmark DAC I, Boom, Radio w/Battery (all ethernet except Radio)
Office: Win7(64) > LMS 7.7.2 > SqueezePlay
Spares: VBA 4TB, SB3, Touch (3), Radio (3), CONTROLLER
Controllers: iPhone4S (iPeng), iPad2 (iPengHD & SqueezePad), CONTROLLER, or SqueezePlay 7.7 on Win7(64) laptop
Ripping (FLAC) - dbpoweramp, Tagging - mp3tag, Spotify
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2012-06-19, 13:44 #3Junior Member
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Ok, that takes one program out of the running. I'm kinda leaning toward winamp as the culprit now. Thanks alot!
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2012-06-19, 15:31 #4Senior Member
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As garym said, it's definitely not LMS. As for getting it back to the way it was before, the most straightforward way is to restore from your backup drive.
If you don't have a current backup, then if your metadata (tags) are in good shape then you should be able to restore the file and folder structure with a tool such as mp3tag. It can create/rename/etc folder and filenames based on tags in the files such as track number, artist name, album name, track name, etc. If your tags aren't in good shape then it will take a lot more manual effort, also known as a more painful lesson in why you should always have a backup.
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2012-06-20, 04:16 #5Senior Member
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and are you really sure the files were renamed and moved, or is something just showing you these odd names. That is, I assume you've looked directly at your harddrive with something like windows explorer to see the files and you've tried to open the files in some other audio software to see what the tags show (for example, mp3tag) Originally Posted by aubuti
Location 1: VortexBox Appliance 6TB (2.2) > LMS 7.7.2 > Transporter, Touch, Boom, Radio w/Battery (all ethernet)
Location 2: VBA 3TB (2.2) > LMS 7.7.2 > Touch > Benchmark DAC I, Boom, Radio w/Battery (all ethernet except Radio)
Office: Win7(64) > LMS 7.7.2 > SqueezePlay
Spares: VBA 4TB, SB3, Touch (3), Radio (3), CONTROLLER
Controllers: iPhone4S (iPeng), iPad2 (iPengHD & SqueezePad), CONTROLLER, or SqueezePlay 7.7 on Win7(64) laptop
Ripping (FLAC) - dbpoweramp, Tagging - mp3tag, Spotify
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