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What to Use to Edit jukebox.db?
« on: July 03, 2009, 10:22:54 pm »
What can I use to edit my jukebox.db file?   There are a few entries that while the tags look fine via a tag editor,  they get jacked up when the jukebox.db file is created for some reason.
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Re: What to Use to Edit jukebox.db?
« Reply #1 on: July 04, 2009, 01:38:15 am »
Quote from: FrizzleFried on July 03, 2009, 10:22:54 pm
What can I use to edit my jukebox.db file?   There are a few entries that while the tags look fine via a tag editor,  they get jacked up when the jukebox.db file is created for some reason.
It is a plain text file; you can edit it with WordPad.
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Re: What to Use to Edit jukebox.db?
« Reply #2 on: July 04, 2009, 01:27:22 pm »
Quote from: Chris on July 04, 2009, 01:38:15 am
Quote from: FrizzleFried on July 03, 2009, 10:22:54 pm
What can I use to edit my jukebox.db file?   There are a few entries that while the tags look fine via a tag editor,  they get jacked up when the jukebox.db file is created for some reason.
It is a plain text file; you can edit it with WordPad.

I did that but the resulting file crashed the program...strange.  I'll try again.
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Re: What to Use to Edit jukebox.db?
« Reply #3 on: July 04, 2009, 01:53:19 pm »
I just tried that very same thing again... i opened JUKEBOX.DB with wordpad... I edited a few fields and then saved... crash...

So I then took the working jukebox.db file,  simply loaded it in wordpad then resaved without touching the actual data... I tried that .db file...

Guess what.  It crashed.  So there is SOMETHING being saved wrong when using WORDPAD?!?





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Re: What to Use to Edit jukebox.db?
« Reply #4 on: July 04, 2009, 05:35:23 pm »
I always use notepad,never had any problems
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Re: What to Use to Edit jukebox.db?
« Reply #5 on: July 04, 2009, 09:09:27 pm »
Quote from: FrizzleFried on July 03, 2009, 10:22:54 pm
What can I use to edit my jukebox.db file?   There are a few entries that while the tags look fine via a tag editor,  they get jacked up when the jukebox.db file is created for some reason.

It sounds like you have the issue that I ran into.  Take a look at this thread....

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=84719.msg891958#msg891958


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Re: What to Use to Edit jukebox.db?
« Reply #6 on: July 08, 2009, 04:11:45 pm »
For those interested...

WORDPAD is not what you want to use.  It corrupts the file somehow (perhaps it adds extra characters or something?).

NOTEPAD is what you want to use. 
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Re: What to Use to Edit jukebox.db?
« Reply #7 on: August 02, 2009, 06:58:32 pm »
Could it be because wordpad, by default, saves the file in rich text format?
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