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import from Toolbox losing links to media files

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import from Toolbox losing links to media files

Posted by jlee at 2009-08-20 07:48

Where an ELAN file links to multiple media files, my links are being corrupted at the import from Toolbox stage of the following repeated export/import cycle:

ELAN -> Toolbox -> CORRUPTION HAPPENS HERE! -> ELAN -> Toolbox -> etc.

Extracted from an example:

In the first stage, the original ELAN file has the following links to two media files:

<MEDIA_DESCRIPTOR MEDIA_URL="file:///C:/Users/Lol and Enrique/Documents/Lol Work/OLCAP/MCNAIR Converted/Segments/NM1977_a001_01.m4a" MIME_TYPE="unknown" RELATIVE_MEDIA_URL="file:/./NM1977_a001_01.m4a"/>
<MEDIA_DESCRIPTOR MEDIA_URL="file:///C:/Users/Lol and Enrique/Documents/Lol Work/OLCAP/MCNAIR Converted/Segments/NM1977_a001_01.wav" MIME_TYPE="audio/x-wav" RELATIVE_MEDIA_URL="file:/./NM1977_a001_01.wav"/>

In the second stage, after it is exported to Toolbox, the two links still exist:

\ELANMediaURL file:///C:/Users/Lol and Enrique/Documents/Lol Work/OLCAP/MCNAIR Converted/Segments/NM1977_a001_01.m4a
\ELANMediaMIME unknown
\ELANMediaURL file:///C:/Users/Lol and Enrique/Documents/Lol Work/OLCAP/MCNAIR Converted/Segments/NM1977_a001_01.wav
\ELANMediaMIME audio/x-wav

In stage three, importing back to ELAN, the links get corrupted:

<MEDIA_DESCRIPTOR MEDIA_URL="file:///C:/Users/Lol and Enrique/Documents/Lol Work/OLCAP/MCNAIR Converted/Segments/NM1977_a001_01.m4a file:///C:/Users/Lol and Enrique/Documents/Lol Work/OLCAP/MCNAIR Converted/Segments/NM1977_a001_01.wav" MIME_TYPE="unknown audio/x-wav" RELATIVE_MEDIA_URL="file:/../../../../Users/Lol and Enrique/Documents/Lol Work/OLCAP/MCNAIR Converted/Segments/NM1977_a001_01.m4a file:///C:/Users/Lol and Enrique/Documents/Lol Work/OLCAP/MCNAIR Converted/Segments/NM1977_a001_01.wav"/>

In stage four, the corruption is not corrected when exporting back to Toolbox:

\ELANMediaURL file:///C:/Users/Lol and Enrique/Documents/Lol Work/OLCAP/MCNAIR Converted/Segments/NM1977_a001_01.m4a file:///C:/Users/Lol and Enrique/Documents/Lol Work/OLCAP/MCNAIR Converted/Segments/NM1977_a001_01.wav
\ELANMediaMIME unknown audio/x-wav

And so the cycle goes on where my links to the two media files don't stay and I have to re-link every time I import the Toolbox file into ELAN.