On May 1, 2014, at 11:34 AM, steve harley <st...@paper-ape.com> wrote:
> on 2014-04-24 23:28 Hacker Scot wrote >> I can’t for the life of me figure out what criteria iTunes is using to >> decide when an album is identical. Anyone know? > > in my experience it is the tracks, not the whole album that it is matching, > and it matches tracks based on album name plus track name; if you have > modified either post-RIP, it won't match; however if you modified them before > you RIP (on the CD listing in iTunes) it may match — i often correct > spelling/capitalization before i RIP, and iTunes sometimes remembers this; > lately it has seemed less likely to remember So it turned out that there's another important factor: Track #s. Some of my older rips (created in BeOS/outside of iTunes) were not numbered e.g. 3/13. Adding these numbers to the old tracks allows the replacement algorithm to kick in when the artist/album/track name match. It's not enough to just set the track count for the whole album either - each track must be numbered individually. So artist/album/track name are necessary but not sufficient condition to trigger Replace. > > generally i don't let iTunes do the replace thing, instead i delete the old > tracks before ripping; i don't really care about play counts and i add > artwork directly to the track files (versus Apple's weird databasey way), > usually with Album Artwork Assistant, so i have to re-add artwork when i > reRIP anyway Yeah, around 50% of my albums have manually added image data. Replace does a nice job of carrying that manual image data over when replacing old tracks. ./s -- >>> Birdhouse Hosting <<< Custom web and mail hosting services http://hosting.birdhouse.org d(-_-)b
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