On Fri, Oct 27, 2023 at 4:41 PM John Jason Jordan <joh...@gmx.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Oct 2023 15:26:10 -0500 > Bill Barry <waba...@gmail.com> dijo: > > >> Stay tuned for the rest of the saga. :) > > >You could just do a few mp3 files to begin with to find out if it > >works and then copy them all over after you have perfected a solution. > > OK, you have a good point. The MP3s are in three folders, labeled Jazz, > Symphonic, and Zarzuelas, the latter being Spanish sort-of operettas. > > After checking out all the Symphonic folder files starting with A and B > (215 of the 1348 total), I pulled the card from the laptop and put it > in the phone. Android saw all the files in the Jazz and Zarzuelas > folders, but only 814 of the Symphonic files. It doesn't take a genius > to figure out that the missing files are the ones that won't play, > ones that I am going through to re-copy from the TB3 source. > > Your point made me perform a good exercise. I now know that the exFAT > drive is acceptable to Android, and also that at least all the files on > two of the folders are OK. > > I still have to go through the remaining 1,100+ files in the card's > Symphonic folder, which will take a while. They look perfect in the > file manager, exactly as they appear in the source folder. The only way > I know to determine if they are somehow corrupted is to double-click on > one, which opens it in Exaile. Exaile either starts playing it or pops > up an error message. With the error messages I delete the file from the > folder on the card, then drag and drop the same file from the > source, and finally, double-click on the replacement. Out of the 50+ > that I have replaced so far, absolutely 100% of the replacements have > played perfectly. Something happened to some of them as they were > copied last night. The corrupted ones appear to be totally random; I > can see no patterns to give me clues about the reason. > > It would be nice if I could automate my procedure somehow, but I don't > know any way to do it. I'm using Exaile as my test instrument, but I've > tried several other players, and all of them refuse to play any of the > corrupted files, just as Android refused to recognize them. > > I am also curious how Android knew to refuse to display the corrupted > ones. Maybe Android is smarter than I thought. :) > Rsync can check to see if the files are corrupt and only copy over the ones that need copying over. Bill
