At WUMD, we load new releases into the system every Monday. They remain a “new release” for eight weeks, then they get moved into core. See more about this in a previous article about OMTNR, which creates a report about these cuts.
To aid in the ‘moving’ of these cuts, OMTNRMove finds the same cuts that OMTNR reports, and moves them from the New Release Categories to the Core Categories. The cut, vis and album art jpg are all moved.
What a time saver! The program automatically selects the next available ID and assigns it as appropriate. This is in contrast to the PRODUCTION program by OMT, which prompts you for every ID collision. The control file OMTNRMove.INI sets the source and destination categories to be processed, and they are handled one by one.
There is the basic assumption that the source and target categories are the same format, which holds true at WUMD.
This is a fabulous little time saver. It moved about 80 cuts in 4 seconds, which would have taken me about 20 minutes because of the ID collision prompting. True I’m also not getting prompted when the same title already exists, but I don’t need that for the move, since I already handled it during the initial cut loading.
