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Adds audio files for recordings already in this Vesper archive.
The recordings to add audio files for are specified as a set of stations and a range of dates.
This command is intended for use with Vesper web archives
that were populated from old Vesper desktop archives by
running the populate_archive
script. Desktop
archives included recording metadata but not recording audio
files, and the populate_archive
script did not
change this in the web archives it populated. This command
remedies that by matching recording audio files present in
the web archive's recording directories to recordings in
the archive database, and adding the audio files to the
database.
The command logs warning messages for any problems it finds, for example if it can't find files for a recording, or if the sample rate or number of channels of the files does not match that of the recording. It is safe to run the command repeatedly, fixing selected problems noted in the logs between runs, until you are satisfied with the results of the final run. Files added by one execution of the command are simply passed over on subsequent runs.
If you check the Dry run
check box, the command
will do everything it normally does, including writing all of
its normal log messages, but it will not actually modify the
archive database.