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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Well sure, if you let it search your PC for media files instead of just telling it which folders your library is in. It still creates its own metadata folders , but that's because it downloads scads of stuff from the internet (images, soundtrack snippets, subtitles, etc...)..
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i told it where the music & video folders were, AND I told it not to bother with photos, but it still created a new app data folder for every single one of my mp3 music tracks. That accounted for most of the 250,000 additional files.- and an mp3 which is already well tagged ( with a cover thumbnail inside of the tags) does not need "scads of stuff from the internet to go with it" - that is just rubbish design.
It was so bad that windows 7 would just hang & die if I tried to explore the app data entries...
OK, i'ts hidden behaviour , I only noticed because defrag was processing tons of stuff that I'd not created, but it's incredibly wasteful, and If I were using SSD I would really NOT want that going on under the covers.
you shoudl not treat mp3 tracks like you'd treat movies! no one ( I guess ) has 20,0000 movies on one PC but having 20,000 MP3 files is not unreasonable. And 250k metadata records to manage 20k tunes is worse than a 12:1 ratio - madness.
If calibre had a 12:1 ratio of metadata files: books, I reckon it would lose a lot of users
Maybe I'll DL & checkout media monkey