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Questions / Re: Use of MusicBee for Classical Music
« on: July 30, 2020, 05:53:33 PM »
So if I'm manually tagging them, then Picard won't find them?
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Questions / recognizing external drives
« on: July 30, 2020, 05:52:13 PM »
I've been using MB to manage files and add tags. I then take selected files and copy them to a USB flash drive. If I want to check what's on one of those drives and maybe edit, how do I get MB to see the drive without changing anything in my main library? When I tried looking at it, all it showed was the list of files plus an offer to copy them (which way - from my main library to the flash drive or the other way around?)
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Questions / Re: Use of MusicBee for Classical Music
« on: July 30, 2020, 12:53:08 PM »
I apologize to both Stevie and Hiccup for straying from MusicBee's prime function, and especially to Stevie for doing what I hate others doing - that is using a lot of jargon/abbreviations without explanation (I'm very frustrated on another forum where so many people do this that I can't figure out what they are saying).
BluOS is a system of streaming music from various sources, including the internet to your own system - think Sonos but in high resolution.
NAD is a manufacturer of audio equipment which may use BluOS, and in my case, I can plug a flash drive with tracks edited with MusicBee into it's USB port.
NAS means Network Attached Storage - usually a hard disk which also has a network connection; it's one way to store and access massive amounts of data, including music.
Thanks to Hiccup for correcting my view of Picard - I thought it was just a database for CDs that had digital signatures and thus allows for the tracks of such CDs to be tagged, is it an access point for MusicBfrainz? You say "If your album/artist/titles are in order, matching could work using Picard's 'Lookup' function...", what do you mean by this? If my tracks didn't come directly from a ripped CD, my album, artist, and titles are all read off the cover of the disk and entered manually using a program like MusocBee. How would I use Picard?
Thanks again.
BluOS is a system of streaming music from various sources, including the internet to your own system - think Sonos but in high resolution.
NAD is a manufacturer of audio equipment which may use BluOS, and in my case, I can plug a flash drive with tracks edited with MusicBee into it's USB port.
NAS means Network Attached Storage - usually a hard disk which also has a network connection; it's one way to store and access massive amounts of data, including music.
Thanks to Hiccup for correcting my view of Picard - I thought it was just a database for CDs that had digital signatures and thus allows for the tracks of such CDs to be tagged, is it an access point for MusicBfrainz? You say "If your album/artist/titles are in order, matching could work using Picard's 'Lookup' function...", what do you mean by this? If my tracks didn't come directly from a ripped CD, my album, artist, and titles are all read off the cover of the disk and entered manually using a program like MusocBee. How would I use Picard?
Thanks again.
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Questions / Re: Use of MusicBee for Classical Music
« on: July 29, 2020, 03:23:56 PM »
I haven't tried it yet, but another music player I have is a NAD C 368 which has the BluOS module. It also has a USB connection, to which I can plug in a flash drive (done that with old files) or a NAS. How would the tags in the Flash/NAS drives be interpreted by the NAD? My hope is that my main library (on my PC) would work, or maybe I could connect the NAD to my PC via Ethernet and stream - is that possible?
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Questions / Re: Use of MusicBee for Classical Music
« on: July 29, 2020, 02:47:32 PM »
I am using MusicBee for two purposes: 1. To provide a way to organize and play my music on my Win10 PC, and 2. To load flash drives to play in my car, which lacks a CD player. Since the player in the car only displays 3 tags (Title, Artist, and Album, in that order), I need to populate those tags with Composer, Work, and Album, with each tag limited to ~12 essential characters! Plus, I need to create files from my library for my wife's non-classical files (for which the default tags work OK).
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Questions / Re: Use of MusicBee for Classical Music
« on: July 29, 2020, 01:57:53 PM »
That command gets me to the Edit window, as does right-clicking. But once in that window, the Movement or Genre Category tags aren't available.
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Questions / Use of MusicBee for Classical Music
« on: July 29, 2020, 12:40:46 PM »
I tried asking this question yesterday but took too long writing it and my session timed out, so here goes again. I just discovered MusicBee and am amazed at how much you can do with it. One thing I would like involves the tags Genre Category and Movement. When I select "Select Displayed Fields", these two appear, but when I select EDIT, I can't find them.
Another thing, another user recommends using Picard to find tags but I believe that's a database and most of the files I have aren't on that database, either because they were digitized LPs, or they are from privately-created CDs. So I just need to get the information and type it in.
Another thing, another user recommends using Picard to find tags but I believe that's a database and most of the files I have aren't on that database, either because they were digitized LPs, or they are from privately-created CDs. So I just need to get the information and type it in.