Is there a way to compare the contents of a library by comparing itl files or some other files?

Is there a way to compare the contents of a library by comparing itl files or some other files?
I need to compare the contents of my current library to one that existed 2 months ago but ALL I have is the itl file from 2 months ago. Can this be done?

You are correct, many people have noticed over the years that Sound Check does not work as advertised.
A more effective approach is to treat the files with a 3rd party volume normalization program. Although I have not personally used it, many users on this Forum have reported good results from an inexpensive program called iVolume.

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I'm creating the blue-print of a new iPad app and was wondering if there was a way to request the contents of a particular directory (eithre local to the device or a a particular directory on the web) and also get the "type" of each item.
For example if inside a directory "Directory1" and inside that directory I have 4 files and another directory, (file1.gif, file2.txt, file3.mov, file4.mp3, Directory2)
Is there a way to request the contents of Directory1 and the type of files they are?
The ideal thing will be to get a recursive request and get an array of contents of all directories inside a particular directory.
something like:
Directory1[file1a.gif,file1b.txt,file1c.mov,file1d.mp3,[Directory2[file2b.mov,fi le2b.mp3]]]
What I want is to create a navigation for the user based on the resultant strign.
Am I re-inventing the wheel here?
Any direction will be greatly appreciated. I rather adjust blue-print now based on what is possible.
Thanks!

We are users here. You might have better luck going to the developers forum.
http://developer.apple.com/devforums/
There are also links on that page that may help too.

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Is there an existing way to bind the content of a ListProperty? Consider the following:
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James_D answered this on StackOverflow. Using Bindings.bindContent(target, listProperty) is all that's needed. It "just works". Here's a code example to show how it works:
import javafx.beans.Observable;
import javafx.beans.binding.Bindings;
import javafx.beans.property.*;
import javafx.collections.FXCollections;
import javafx.collections.ListChangeListener;
import javafx.collections.ObservableList;
import javafx.util.Callback;
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/* This is a quick test to see how ListProperty notifies about list changes
* when the entire list is swapped.
* Conclusion: When the backing list is changed, ListProperty will perform
* notification indicating that all items from the original list were
* removed and that all items from the updated (new) list were added.
ObservableList<Person> oldPeople = FXCollections.observableArrayList();
ObservableList<Person> newPeople = FXCollections.observableArrayList();
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ListProperty<Person> people = new SimpleListProperty<>(oldPeople);
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// is expected to additionally notify whenever the name of a person in the
// list changes.
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                        person.name
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    System.out.println("Adding jacob to newPeople. Expect 1 change.");
    newPeople.add(jacob);
    System.out.println("Changing jacob's name to jack. Expect 1 change.");
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...and the output from running the above.
Adding john to oldPeople. Expect 1 change.
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Changing john's name to joe. Expect 1 change.
    { updated at range [0, 1) }
Adding jane to newPeople. Expect 0 changes.
Updating people to newPeople. Expect ? changes.
    { [joe] removed at 0 }
    { [jane] added at 0 }
Adding jacob to oldPeople. Expect 0 changes.
Adding jacob to newPeople. Expect 1 change.
    { [jacob] added at 1 }
Changing jacob's name to jack. Expect 1 change.
    { updated at range [1, 2) }
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oldPeople: [joe, jack]
newPeople : [jane, jack]
    { [jane, jack] removed at 0 }
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Here is my situation. I'm doing an application in forms 6.i. There's an ON-ERROR trigger defined at form level which calls a procedure programmed to treat errors. Inside this procedure I issue a message like "record is being used by another user" when I get the -54 dbms_error_code.
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