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RE: Recursive Cue Creator -HELP !

Posted by Ryelands (A) on October 8, 2011 at 03:32:13

In Reply to: RE: Recursive Cue Creator -HELP ! posted by play-mate on October 8, 2011 at 01:44:26:

My last hope is to back up the entire library and format the partition anew

Of course you always need at least one full backup, preferably two, of your music data but your problem with cuefiles is easily solved.

1. Get rid of every cuefile you have - clean up and start anew. The easiest way to do this is to install "Command Prompt Here" (Google for "DosHere"), write a batch file with this text:

del *.cue /s /q
exit

and call it Q.bat. To use, launch Explorer, find a folder with cuefiles in it, right-click on the folder name, select "Command Prompt Here", type Q and press Enter. The batch file will delete every cuefile in the folder and any sub-folders. Repeat until you have no more cuefiles.

2. Just in case you're not clear, here's how CueFileCreator works. If you select "Use Custom Output Directory", the program writes cuefiles for the folder(s) you selected under "Set Library Root" and place them in the selected output folder. They include the full path to the target data (e.g. D:\HeavyMetal\Stonedeff\Cacophony.cue). If you move the data, you need either to re-write or edit the cuefiles to allow for the new path.

If you do NOT select an output directory, CueSheetCreator writes cuefiles with no path and puts them in the same folder as the target data (e.g. Cacophony.cue). In this case, the music data can be moved without re-writing the cue file but (obviously) the cuefile has to move with them.

3. If you want to move the data to a different place but the cuefiles are absolute (i.e. they include the path), "TextCrawler" works a treat for editing them in bulk. I do this regularly and have changed several hundred in one pass when e.g. splitting one folder into two sub-folders as a collection grows.

HTH

Dave

Edits: 10/08/11

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