Doing songs in batch creates error sometimes

[admin]

Hey, try some files other than ZIPPING to or from.

We just fixed an obscure bug in another product where if the internal files have extensions in different cases (.mp3 + .CDG) then it would error.

We'll look at Songverter to make sure the problem isn't there, or fix it if present.

[bryant]

Originally Posted by admin

Hey, try some files other than ZIPPING to or from.

We just fixed an obscure bug in another product where if the internal files have extensions in different cases (.mp3 + .CDG) then it would error.

We'll look at Songverter to make sure the problem isn't there, or fix it if present.

I did check the extensions and they were all the same case in all of them. All files eventually songverted properly, it is that they would only process half a batch at a time, sort of like a half-life that explains the life of radio-isotopes. e.g., carbon-14 half life of approx. 5800 years means that half the mass decays to nitrogen-14 every 5800 years, so after 10,600 years, one-fourth of carbon-14 remains, while 3/4 of mass is Nitrogen-14.

Sorry for the lengthy CSI explanation.

[bryant]

Originally Posted by admin

Hey, try some files other than ZIPPING to or from.

We just fixed an obscure bug in another product where if the internal files have extensions in different cases (.mp3 + .CDG) then it would error.

We'll look at Songverter to make sure the problem isn't there, or fix it if present.

Yup, no matter what I try, I can only process one half of a batch at a time. Tried mp3+g to bin and to zip, vica versa, etc.

[bryant]

I also tried this for a work-around. As most of my custom discs are 18 songs to be consistent. I added in another 18 and renumbered them beginning with "z" so they would appear at the end of the list of 18 i wanted done.

It did the first 18 (1/2 as usual), but it didn't do them in the alphabetical order i was hoping for.

How does songverter choose its order of songs to convert. Knowing this I could invent a decent work-around for now.

The same question was asked about Hoster's import from HD order as well, as I was alphabetizing songs to a disk, but the import feature was setting their track numbers in a different order? This was posted on another hoster help forum, just thought i'd relate the two.

Is there a way to change the ordering?

[ddouglass]

Put a number at the beginning of the filename?
My question is what does it matter what order they are converted? Even if you put them in alphabetical order, that doesn't actually change there position on the hard drive.

[bryant]

Originally Posted by ddouglass

Put a number at the beginning of the filename?
My question is what does it matter what order they are converted? Even if you put them in alphabetical order, that doesn't actually change there position on the hard drive.

It does make a difference as the disk is created by track in alphabetical order, and the text file is given in that order as well when viewed, but when importing, it puts them in a random track order, numbering doesn't make any difference. The program has its own way of choosing the order.

that's what I am trying to find out.

[ddouglass]

Can't tell you. Since all of mine have DiskID-Track as part of the name, that is the order they are sorted in. Don't know what it chooses next if no track number is available.

[bryant]

Originally Posted by ddouglass

Can't tell you. Since all of mine have DiskID-Track as part of the name, that is the order they are sorted in. Don't know what it chooses next if no track number is available.

Dale,
Does it sort by track number ( 1 thru 10, for example in that oreder) when you import them, or by another order.

I tried putting anumber and a " - "in front of the title,
but the order wasn't listed 1 thru 18, however.

[bryant]

Originally Posted by ddouglass

Can't tell you. Since all of mine have DiskID-Track as part of the name, that is the order they are sorted in. Don't know what it chooses next if no track number is available.

When you songvert songs, have you created my situation where only half of them will songvert at a time, regardless of the initial number of songs started?