10-06-2017, 05:13 PM
Dear Mike,
thanks for your in depth response! I see your points and also noticed that MS got way more reliable since July. Since then I have switched devices and now just noticed that again some of my audio files refer to wrong storage locations. I think that the consitency of the db and the linked files is the basis for everything else. In that respect the handling of linked (audio) files seems a little problematic to me. In my opinion everything related to MS should be stored in a single folder (and subfolders) to make backup/restore,migration to new PC as simple as possible. Instead when I add a mp3 via the edit song dialog from within MS it will not copy it to the storage location but rather reference it in its original location. That to me is asking for trouble. For example, users might download a file via a web browser and then want to attach the file to some song in MS. The downloaded file sits in the 'download' folder and MS will then expect to find the file there. However many user may clean up their download folder from time to time to regain disk space - boom - audio file is gone. Very few if any users will have so many audio files in MS that some duplicate files will be a problem. I would recommend that MS always copies all imported files to the MS 'storage location' .
thanks for your in depth response! I see your points and also noticed that MS got way more reliable since July. Since then I have switched devices and now just noticed that again some of my audio files refer to wrong storage locations. I think that the consitency of the db and the linked files is the basis for everything else. In that respect the handling of linked (audio) files seems a little problematic to me. In my opinion everything related to MS should be stored in a single folder (and subfolders) to make backup/restore,migration to new PC as simple as possible. Instead when I add a mp3 via the edit song dialog from within MS it will not copy it to the storage location but rather reference it in its original location. That to me is asking for trouble. For example, users might download a file via a web browser and then want to attach the file to some song in MS. The downloaded file sits in the 'download' folder and MS will then expect to find the file there. However many user may clean up their download folder from time to time to regain disk space - boom - audio file is gone. Very few if any users will have so many audio files in MS that some duplicate files will be a problem. I would recommend that MS always copies all imported files to the MS 'storage location' .