Problem importing .bin files

[mindonstrike]

OK this is strange
I renamed a bin file exaxtly the way yours are, alice cooper - dg01 - 04 - No more mr. nice guy.bin, I lost everything after the period. Removed the period after Mr and tried again. for 'Select Brand I used "Dangerous" (just guessing there). I left disk id blank and tried to import. As soon as I clicked 'import files', "Alice cooper" shows up in the disc id box, and then I get the error msg about too much data. I shortened up alice cooper in the file name to "Alice" and then it imported, of course the Artist field now shows "Alice" as does the disk id field.

Then I did this all again except this time I manually filled in the disk id field with "DG04". As soon as I clicked "import files" the disk id feild changed itself back to "Alice Cooper" and then received the too much data error msg again.

I tried a couple of different things and couldn't get it to work. I looked for something in the manual about requireing diskid info to be the first part of a file name and could find nothing. So I don't think Hoster is supposed to behave that way.

Short of renaming your files I don't know what else to suggest. I dont suppose audio grabber will let you do an auto rename or anything?



Sam

[cartunesdj]

Weird, eh?

Well, all it well in CarTunesville...audiograbber DOES allow you to specify the naming convention and does it quite well!

I am interested to see the response from someone at MTU regarding this.

Maybe this is one of those tricky little "bugs" that is getting "squashed" with the next update?

Guess we might have to just wait and see.

[nreel]

I added the same file with and without a Period after Mr. and, of course, with the Trk with Mr+Period (Mr.), everything after the PERIOD was Truncated.

If you use this naming scheme:

Dg01 - 5 - Cooper, Alice - No More Mr Nice Guy.bin

Then, use these parameters:

Field 1 = DiscID
Field 2 = - (SPACEdashSPACE) (The 2nd choice in the List Box, down from the Top)
Field 3 = Track
Field 4 = - (SPACEdashSPACE) (The 2nd choice in the List Box, down from the Top)
Field 5 = Artist
Field 6 = - (SPACEdashSPACE) (The 2nd choice in the List Box, down from the Top)
Field 7 = Title
Field 8 = . (PERIOD)

you will have a successful Import.


Now, if you use your original Format of:

Cooper, Alice - Dg01 - 5 - No More Mr Nice Guy.bin

and us these Parameters to match the naming Scheme:

Field 1 = Artist
Field 2 = - (SPACEdashSPACE) (The 2nd choice in the List Box, down from the Top)
Field 3 = DiscID
Field 4 = - (SPACEdashSPACE) (The 2nd choice in the List Box, down from the Top)
Field 5 = Track
Field 6 = - (SPACEdashSPACE) (The 2nd choice in the List Box, down from the Top)
Field 7 = Title
Field 8 = . (PERIOD)

In Field 3, where DiscID is selected, Hoster fills-in the ARTIST info of Cooper, Alice.

This is, of course, not correct and needs to be fixed.

Norm

[mindonstrike]

Thanks Norm for chiming in. I agreewith your assesment.

Scott, I don't know if this will be corrected in 3.12 or not, However in 3.12 (tentatively due out the end of this month) you can batch import multiple folders. Hoster will take the brand from the topmost folder and the disk id's from the subfolders.
For instance (I did this with a beta version and it worked well) your topmost folder would be labelled "dangerous". The subfolders would be labelled "DG01", "DG02" etc. and then within those folder would be the disk files. You could do that for all your Brands and disks and then Batch process each brand.
If knowing the exact diskid is unimportant you could just put all your "dangerous " songs in a subfolder called "DG" (a lot less cutting and pasting involved)

When you set your parameter you would simply set the disk id to "ignore"

This isn't the simple answer you were hoping for I imagine but it's the best I can come up with at this point.

If it appears the original scenario will be corrected in time for the next upgrade I'll post back.

Sam