Synchronize¶

The albums sync command will copy some or all of the configured music library to another location. Only files that have been updated are copied. This enables updating portable collections and digital audio players as long as they can be accessed by the operating system like a regular storage device.

Only music files that albums knows about are copied. If there are other files in the library album directory, sync ignores them!

Use a collection¶

albums can associate specific albums with "collection" tags (see Usage). A collection could define a subset of the library to copy to a digital audio player, phone or memory card. The command albums --collection top100 sync <destination> would copy all albums in the "top100" collection to the destination.

Sync and delete¶

If albums are removed from the collection, or folders/files are renamed, running another sync to the same destination could leave unwanted or duplicate files. Alternatively, the --delete option and albums will delete every file in the destination that is not being synced! This is good if the destination is, for example, a folder on a memory card for a digital audio player, which doesn't contain any other data, and albums sync will manage everything there.