ATF Question

[Jeff Mitchell]

On Monday 15 October 2007, Greg Meyer wrote:
> Will ATF think a song is different if everything about a replacement file
> is the same except the bitrate, e.g. file title, tags, etc.
>
> I have a directory of Q4 vorbis files that I would like to replace with Q6
> versions of those same files.  All file names are the same, as well as the
> tags.  The only thing different is the bitrate.  So will ATF think these
> are different files?  Hopefully not so the stats and playcounts stay with
> the songs.

As long as you keep the filenames exactly the same, on the next scan of those 
files it should update its hash, and it will consider those files to be the 
same.  Once a scan has been run (incremental or full) against those files and 
the hash has been updated, you could then change the filenames if you want 
(but then don't change the file contents until another scan has run!)

Just keep this rule in mind: change the filename/location or change the 
contents, but never both at the same time.

--Jeff