TuneFUSION Discussions

[Spoon]

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If you are not able to select the network location for your source library, browse to this folder with Windows File Explorer and right click on the share >> Map network drive.

Check the box to reconnect during startup, and you will be able to select this drive in TuneFUSION.

[jsanzo]

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Will TuneFUSION only sync files from the local Music Library "C:\Users\Username\Music"? My music library is stored on network drive.

Thanks
Jay

[Spoon]

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Fixed.

[Markus@Illustra]

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In the link "http://www.dbpoweramp.com/beta/TuneFUSION-RemoteClient" is the extension ".exe" missing.

[Maxpower]

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Hey Spoon - nice product. I have installed and done some basic testing.

Do you plan to add .dsf .dff support also?

Hi-Res portable audio is becoming main stream now so I think this would be a good inclusion (and consistent with the existing illustrate product line).

Any idea about price (ballpark)?

Thanks!

[schmidj]

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I've played with this very powerful, useful software a little, I will some more when I have a moment. Some first comments, some of which may be me, not the software:

When the source is FLAC files with multiple genres, it appears to only select on the genre that is lower in the alphabet, IE I have files that are genres Christmas; Steelband. I have Christmas unchecked, Steelband checked, files are not synced, no matter which order genres are in, ie: Steelband; Christmas or Christmas; Steelband. Similarly tagged m4a files are synced in both cases. I'd prefer if a file with multiple genres has one checked, that it be synced, for all filetypes.

It would be very useful to be able to say don't sync any file where length greater than some number you enter. Even better if I could make that length genre dependent, don't sync classical tracks longer than 5 minutes long...

It would be nice if you could enter a priority based system for syncing if the destination drive is smaller than is required for the sync, I suspect is often the case for portable devices. Right now it just appears to stop when space remaining is less than the number you selected. Doesn't even tell you in the log that it ran out of space. I'm not sure how it selects the order for syncing, justy like I've never figured out what order Windows copies files in when copying a directory. Right now it appears to be trial and error to see what will fit on the destination directory.

When indexing the source directories, it should either have a progress bar or at least say that it might take a while for large directories, some people might think the program has hung.

It would be neat if the program had some way of detecting duplicate directories (read that as duplicate albums/CD's, as opposed to duplicate tracks on otherwise different CD's) and selectively not syncing them. Actually playing with this disclosed to me the significant problem in my collection of duplicate albums, often with minor differences in the metadata. I just ran dedupe from PerfectTunes on the source directories, I've manually cleaned up the "A"'s and "B"'s, I've still got C through Z to clean up, about 60,000 tracks. Incidentally a wishlist item for dedupe would be the ability to just detect duplicate albums, IE all the tracks or at least most of them match another directory, in track order. Also a means of flagging directories with duplicate track numbers in them.

Don't get me wrong, this software is useful as is (at least once the genre issue is addressed). I'm looking forward to putting it to use to solve the issue of keeping the music on my phone up to date (to listen to mostly by bluetooth in my car.)

[ExtremeGamerBR]

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Next update includes choosing any folder as the destination.

Perfect. Thanks!

[Spoon]

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Next update includes choosing any folder as the destination.

[ExtremeGamerBR]

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For a long time I expected something that would do what TuneFUSION does. I already tested with this first beta and everything worked as expected. I believe that being a first BETA, is within the expectations some small difficulties of navigation etc, but that will be solved as new versions emerge.

Thank you very much for this excellent software and I look forward to the next versions.

After tinkering with it, I see that it has all the options I can want.

Just one question, why not allow this synchronization to be made from any drive to any drive? I would like to have a copy of my songs in AAC on my own HD songs, I do not understand why of necessarily being on an external drive.

[Spoon]

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Encoding based on genre is not possible.

If you set the naming as [origpath]\[origfilename]

It is not currently possible to copy other files.

Add the folder to the naming string, such as:

folder1\[origpath]\[origfilename]

[olavrb]

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Brilliant concept, I've wished for a tool like this for long.


Some ideas. And I'm sorry if some of them already exist:

- Custom presets based on the genre tag?
I mostly find Opus transparent at 125kbps, but for some types of electronic music (tech house, techno ++) I need 140kbps to make it transparent (I've ABX'ed it.).
Could be like: Use X kbps for all music, but use Y kbps for genres in a comma seperated list.

- Is it possible to copy folder tree? If not, add it?

- Option to copy other files than audio, based on a filter. Like 'Folder.jpg', '*.PNG' or 'Info\*' for whole folders.

- Option to set a folder on destination, not just use root.

[Spoon]

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Try a full reboot of your Windows, if still no go look at your security software, it might be blocking it.

[John Ferris]

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I installed this yesterday on my Windows 7 64 bit PC. Worked great after install but won't run now. I click on the icon and it doesn't do anything. It shows in task manager but thats all.

Regards John

[Spoon]

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>'With Audio Properties Below or Equal to:'

This relates to the 1:1 copy option above, so setting to 44KHz would reconvert any 96KHz item.

>When file in destination is deleted manually the sync does not replace the deleted file with a new one

Edit sync >> options >> next sync >> detect and rewrite missing files on destination

>Synchronization Type: Only 'Removable Disk'

It is the only one completed yet.


> Option: Preserve folder structure and names:

Setting the naming to [origfolder]\[origfilename]

>Sync process need to detect changes in timestamp of files

It will already do this

[Perfectionist]

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Thanks for bringing up such a tool. I have just tested current version (release 1 beta 1).

Issues with current version:
- Filter 'With Audio Properties Below or Equal to:' does not work correctly: 96/24 Flac is
processed even with filter set to 44.1/16.
- After initial sync: When file in destination is deleted manually the sync does not replace the deleted file with a new one
- Synchronization Type: Only 'Removable Disk' was available while I was testing (Issue while test run in a VM?)

Environment where I would use that tool
- Large FLAC plus MP3 collection (>1TB) on a NAS
- Different folders for different file formats or categories in one NAS share: 01-MP3-MUSIC, 02-MP3-CLASSICAL, 03-FLAC-MUSIC, 04-FLAC-SPEECH,...
- For iTunes and in-house streaming FLAC collection needs to be present any time as MP3 also: 03-FLAC-MUSIC = 13-MP3-MUSIC-FROM-FLAC, same music in different format
- MAC and Windows mixed household
- Audio meta data (tags) are changed and improved from time to time with different tool -> timestamp of file will change

Scenarios
1. Sync FLAC folders into MP3 folders on NAS, like 03-FLAC-MUSIC -> 13-MP3-MUSIC-FROM-FLAC, including all other files, e.g. pictures (*.JPG) and while preserving same folder structure (below that top level sync folder)
2. Preparation for car audio usage: Alpine INE-W925R does not show covers when above 500x500 px: Copy files from a temporary collection folder onto a USB-Stick and bulk resize artwork within audio files, folder structure can be created from scratch - I think this can be done already with TuneFUSION today :-)
3. Preparation for mobile audio player usage: FiiO X3 get confused by Mac UNIX hidden files ('.*'): Copy files from a temporary collection folder onto a SD-Card and erase all unwanted files in destination, folder structure can be created from scratch

Needed features
- Option: Preserve folder structure and names: Folder in destination location will have the the same structure and names like in source location
- Option: Copying of additional files like PDF, TXT and JPG, best if an additional filter can be applied to that function
- Option: Deletion of unwanted folders and files in destination: macOS does create a lot additional hidden files and folders like .TemporaryItems, .DS_Store, .Spotlight-V100,.... Those can confuse simple audio players
- Sync into a specific folder (on a NAS), not only a network drive
- Sync process need to detect changes in timestamp of files (because tags have been altered) and need to sync those files again even if they are already existing in destination

Hope this will help to make this an amazing tool. :-)