Thank you for your help, Brian and RD James and Awesome Donkey.Ah, I see. My restoration is now done to my satisfaction and it was an opportunity for me to learn a lot about Media Center. It is therefore important to always keep the files in the Music folder up-to-date by using the "Update tags when file info changes" and "Update Tags (from Library)" tools. And by the way, if we open the backup file, we see that it does not include the Cover Art folder found in the JRiver folder of the Mac library. My first failures were due to errors on my part in the restoration process or in my Music folder.īut Cover Art only appears after correcting file paths with the Find and Replace tool, which shows that they are well recovered from the files. When I make a restore from a backup, it's true that all other metadata are correctly transferred to the corresponding fields. I noticed that the Cover Art are not transferred during recovery and that was my first concern. The database restore really should be working. This is kind of a one time operation to get your files in sync with the metadata that's inside MC's internal database. Note that you would normally not need to do this, as setting the option above would update each file as you made your changes in MC. I recall something about MC hanging up if you try to update too many files at once. If you decide to do this, on your old system, I recommend doing it in batches. Library Tools > Update Tags (from Library) You can force MC to write to your files by highlighting the file or files in question and then doing: Tools > Options > General > Importing & Tagging > Update tags when file info changes > (check to make it write metadata to files) It is *optionally* written back to the files as well. Metadata is definitely put into the JRiver MC database. Are you sure the file you are restoring from is recent? But it wouldn't explain *all* the files be wrong (or most of them). I'm not sure if you made a backup of your old system recently or not. Or it might not.Īre you able to check a few songs on the old system to see if the metadata is the same or different? That would tell us something. Are you seeing missing data in common fields like or or similar? Or only in custom fields? I ask because this might relate to re-creating custom fields. Restoring the library should restore all of the metadata. To confirm this, I only had to open my Music folder with another application (Swinsian) and also have the track files analyzed by a specialized application (Yate). I also conclude that not all metadata are embedded in the tracks files, but that some are rather preserved in the MC library. So I come to believe that there is something wrong with the Backup and Restore process. I only have fully transfer the J River folder in the Mac library: "/ Users / iMac-01 / Library / Application Support / J River"Īnd here, instantly, I find the entirety of my library with all the additions and changes I made personally. I did not restore the library from a backup Some changes of names, titles, artists, etc.Īnd to go further, I started all over again with the difference that: In fact, everything I personally added or modified: I got the same results as the first time, all the files were restored, except that a lot of the metadata are lost. Run Rebuild Thumbnail tool (a long enough operation) Change the file path with the Find and Replace tool Restore the library on the new Mac from backup Make a new backup of the library on the old Mac First, to your question: No, there was no file in the library before restoring from the backup.Īnd, to be sure, I redid the whole process from a new clean install of Media Center.
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