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djpetey 6:54 PM - 8 September, 2004
When ssl saves the wavform (or whatever other info it saves) when you close ssl, does it save it to the mp3 itself? I ask becuase I delete all my songs and reload my laptop every couple weeks or so..... I figure if that info is saved elsewhere, it will start to become a big folder of unnecessary stuff..... to put it simple, if I want to wipe all data (other than the ssl app itself) off my laptop and restart on a regular basis, what all do I need to delete? just the mp3s?.....
nik39 7:21 PM - 8 September, 2004
Data like cuepoints, analyzed stripes (and I think whether the song has to be looped or not= are stored into the mp3s(tags) itself. Except the database where song informations like song length, bitrate reside. These are of course also in the mp3 itself, but you have to map those songs once so SSL knows them, then they are written to the database file, which is located on the drive where the mp3 file resides, there in the root folder you can find a ".ScratchLive" folder.
djpetey 1:55 AM - 9 September, 2004
so, if Im going to remove a song from my ssl laptop and I want it completely gone, do I need to delete the stuff in that scratchlive folder as well? basically, my concern is that I will take a song off today..... add it again in a couple weeks with maybe changes to the id3 tag and I dont want confusion in ssl
KFunk 5:23 PM - 9 September, 2004
djpetey, if you delete a song from your laptop, in SL when you go to load it up it will have no song info and an exclimation point will be next to the song in the playlist. You can then just delete it from the All library in SL.I have deleted songs that were baddly encoded, added ID3 tags and re-encoded them, and SL would read the MP3 with all the new info added.
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AJ 1:16 AM - 14 September, 2004
Not only that, but in the next version of scratch live, there is a button you can press on the setup screen that will rescan all the tags in your scratch live collection. Then you can sort by the status column, to find all the missing files and remove them from your collection.
KFunk 1:23 AM - 14 September, 2004
Damn, You guys just keep upping the ante! I would think after another major upgrade (2.0) you would have no competition. Thanks.
djpetey 10:32 AM - 14 September, 2004
that feature will help me a lot.... good work.... everytime you release an upgrade that solves all my problems, you talk about the next one that will solve even more of em..... 2.0 will be a good day for me
Serato, Forum Moderator
AJ 4:33 AM - 15 September, 2004
Just so you guys know, the version we're working on is actually 1.2, I don't imagine there will be a version 2 of scratch live for quite a while.
djpetey 7:00 AM - 15 September, 2004
thats what I meant.... sorry for the confusion