by DJ Vintage on 27 Oct 2014, 09:08
Hi,
I've had a similar problem with the iOS app, but yesterday ran into it trying to work on my new installation on my MacBook Pro.
Here's what's happening.
I installed 3.3.1. on my Mac. I cleaned up my full collection (about 40k tracks) as good as I could (added latest stuff, checked tags and such, ran everything through Platinum Notes and Mixed in Key, etx.).
Then I went into Cross. Since I want everything on an external HD (I always keep a synced copy with me when I play out), I made all the necessary settings (analysis files, samples, recording) and made a new collection (also on the external HD).
I then selected "files" and went to the "music" folder on my external HD. I dragged it to the collection icon and it started to scan files. This took a few minutes and when done it showed an "import files" window.
This ran for about 6-7 minutes and then got stuck on an Aerosmith track. I waited for 10+ minutes, but nothing happened. The HD led was flashing in a very steady tempo (usually an indication that it is trying to repeatedly read the same bit of information.
The cancel button did not work, or maybe I was just impatient (ONLY waited for 10 minutes for the cancel button to stop the import process). I could not close the program in a regular manner (nothing reacting to mouse or keyboard) and ended up force closing the program. To avoid awkward surprises I rebooted the MBP.
I ran a chkdsk on the HD, which came up empty. I then ran an MP3 repair tool and repeated the import process. Same result. I then tried another mp3 repair tool and repeated. Still the same result. I then moved the faulty track to another location. I started the import and it stopped at another Aerosmith track (I know, right ! :-)). I decided to move the remaining 3 Aerosmith tracks to the other location and ran the import once more. It now ran all the way to the end. Needless to say that everytime I had to start anew, I had to go through the whole reboot thing.
All in all this took me the better part of my afternoon and evening. I was not very happy. Luckily it was only a handful of tracks and they were all close together in the A-folder. I don't know what I would have done if there had been 10 more bad tracks distributed evenly over the collection and I would have had to start over from far longer in the import process.
Here's my question:
Can you please add a "skip" button next to the cancel button in the import files window. Running into a bad tracks doesn't mean I want to stop importing (cancel) but I do want to ignore the faulty file and move on (skip). And at the end I'd like to get a pop-up saying that import was succesful, but the following files were skipped (and then a list of skipped files with possibly the option of saving that list to a txt file so you can go do something about those tracks).
I understand you can't be held accountable for bad tracks in someone's collection, that is the collection owners problem. But the way the program deals with this is not very nice.
I don't need fancy detection systems that detect that a track is not importing properly and moves on either prompted or automatically (nice for the wish list, but not a necessity). A simple skip button is plenty, telling the program to forget importing the current track and move on.
Hope this is possible as faulty tracks are always a possibility in this day and age.
Greetinx,
Chuck
