Since I found the gaps in the file names (see above), I thought I better check my file name parser again and made it look for duplicates. This pointed me to another 400 or so errors. Two alternatives. Improve my file parser. Read excel file. I guess I prefer the former.
Now I ran into the next problem. Some of the files on the hard disk seem to be missing. At least there are gaps in the numbering of them.
I don't remember very well what Martin told me. I think he said he did delete some files since they were 'wrong takes". This would mean that these gaps would be there intentionally and I should ignore these gaps.
But: It is unlikely that I can rely on this info, so I should check them manually at some point!
So, as practice I write a routine that identifies these gaps. (I still have to debug it, there seems to an error in it now, but I cannot fix it without the files. So I am stuck here for the moment.) When I find one of these gaps, I create a dummy entry in the filecache which says "Controlled file gap".
When I loop over the the filecache in the main routine, I do $track_no++ so I jump over this track.
I should not do it like this. This is too automatical. I should create a manual list with all verified gaps. This would force me to look at each and every gap.
PS: I added a list of the gaps as "missing tracks.txt" as attachment
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Since I found the gaps in the file names (see above), I thought I better check my file name parser again and made it look for duplicates. This pointed me to another 400 or so errors. Two alternatives. Improve my file parser. Read excel file. I guess I prefer the former.
Now I ran into the next problem. Some of the files on the hard disk seem to be missing. At least there are gaps in the numbering of them.
I don't remember very well what Martin told me. I think he said he did delete some files since they were 'wrong takes". This would mean that these gaps would be there intentionally and I should ignore these gaps.
But: It is unlikely that I can rely on this info, so I should check them manually at some point!
So, as practice I write a routine that identifies these gaps. (I still have to debug it, there seems to an error in it now, but I cannot fix it without the files. So I am stuck here for the moment.) When I find one of these gaps, I create a dummy entry in the filecache which says "Controlled file gap".
When I loop over the the filecache in the main routine, I do $track_no++ so I jump over this track.
I should not do it like this. This is too automatical. I should create a manual list with all verified gaps. This would force me to look at each and every gap.
PS: I added a list of the gaps as "missing tracks.txt" as attachment
The programmable interface actually almost neutralizes the Sony desease, don't you think?
There seems to be an English version of this book. I have not yet been able to check if the argument is the same or if this is an update...
Groys, Boris. The total art of Stalinism: Avant-garde, aesthetic dictatorship, and beyond. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1992.