Heyyeh.
I just changed 2 names of albums (i.e. path/URL changed), no other change - upon restart, MB did the following:
1) flagged the files under the previous path as missing. Since this was as expected & intended, I confirmed to not remove them as I would like to replace them with the files living under a new path.
2) MB's start up scan also found the files under the new name & added them to the Inbox, which is to be expected as well.
So far so good.
I then went ahead and:
3) use 'Locate Missing Files...' to point 1 file to the new location, which then picked up all other files, since neither name or .ext changed, and worked as expected replacing all old URLs with the new.
4) I then removed the previously detected 'new' files from the inbox (as they were added through the 'Locate Missing Files...' action above).
But, to my suprise, when restarting MB, it now still adds the 'new' files to the inbox (despite them having been added to the library via 'Locate Missing Files...' )
I had 2 assumptions here:
- once I pointed missing old files to the new location via 'Locate Missing Files...', these files would fully replace the old files, and therefore would not be considered 'new' after being added to the library via 'Locate Missing Files...'.
And additionally - and please confirm that this is correct (this only occurred to me when the above happened and I assumed this as a given - as if not this could be rather destructive to my 100s of playlists...) IF I use 'Locate Missing Files...' on an album, and tracks from this album occur in a playlists, when replacing tracks or a full album via 'Locate Missing Files...' this should and will also update each occurence in a playlist with these 'replaced' files.
Correct ?
Cheers.
c.
ps. this is on 3.1.6306, and on previous tests, the replaced-files did not re-appear in the inbox.
pps. turns out, looking some more into this, the replaced files are gone from the library... so it makes sense that the inbox is picking them up again... I'll do the same again and see if I can reproduce any of it...
ppps. looks like this is reproducable...
I added a dummy folder with files.
Added it to MB library,
then renamed the folder,
restarted MB,
which then picked up the changes and suggested them through inbox as new files.
IF I now go to library and point the missing files from the library to the new path/URL,
AND THEN go to the inbox to delete them from the inbox (after which, the relinked files in the library are still there at this point pointing to the new/replaced files),
AND IF I THEN restart MB - the replaced files are gone from the library without a trace, neither new or old are to be found, and the files used for the 'Locate Missing Files...' action, are again added to the inbox.
I might try NOT to delete from inbox, then restart and see if things look more healthy...
pppps.
The trick is indeed - after replacing them in the library, ignore the inbox files & DO NOT delete them from there - this seems to be where MB chokes. IF I do not delete them, but just restart MB at this point, then the replaced files remain in the library and after the restart, the new'old files are not shown in the inbox anymore.