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Questions / Re: Why would this album not merge?

« on: May 23, 2023, 10:51:00 PM »

While I still don't understand why it was thinking the dates were different per track, by changing my sort to Date Added (Album) it now keeps them all together

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Questions / Re: Why would this album not merge?

« on: May 23, 2023, 09:00:02 PM »

There are about 1000 metadata fields in musicbee. Which should I be checking? I confirmed the Path is the same for all files in MB

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Questions / Re: Why would this album not merge?

« on: May 23, 2023, 08:57:30 PM »

When I search, they are all collapsed into the same album

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Questions / Re: Why would this album not merge?

« on: May 23, 2023, 08:55:32 PM »

I could not agree more with hiccup.

When albums are defined by the folder, even files with different metadata but in the same folder will show as one album (in that case, MB shows the Album name and Album Artist name stored in the first track). But if for example the tracks are subdivided into 2 folders (even located in the same parent folder), they are treated as belonging to different albums.

For checking purposes, could you do the following?

• switch to view "Album and Tracks" (and select "detailed list" if needed in its "Customise Panel..." menu)
• add "Path" to the displayed fields, and widen the column to show the full path
• check that the path is identical for all the concerned tracks

check metadata are all matched and complete then rescan the library to update any changes. If all else fails you will have to delete the cd from your library and computer and rip it again ensuring that all metadata is being written correctly.

Are you 100% sure all the files are in the same folder, and there is not (even) one in another folder?

Also, if you care about having proper metadata, and have put in the effort for that, consider not using 'files for each album are organised in their own folder'?
Not saying that is related to this particular issue,  but MusicBee is intended and optimised to be used using proper metadata.
Making folder locations relevant to grouping might complicate things in respect to just being able to rely on your metadata.

I just confirmed that all 18 tracks are in the  same folder. I really don't want to have to go through all the tracks individually to find out why an album isn't merged. I will try some of the more detailed answers now.

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Questions / Why would this album not merge?

« on: May 22, 2023, 11:51:56 PM »

Usually I just rename the artist and album artist when I run into this, but this time, in my audiobook view, it won't merge the audiobook as a single album in the view despite being in the same folder on the file system, having identical metadata from what I can tell, and finally having no grouping.

Here are some images of what I'm dealing with https://imgur.com/a/t6lQfHF

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Questions / Re: Music Explorer for Audiobooks

« on: February 08, 2019, 04:39:15 PM »

also looking for how to do this

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Questions / Re: MusicBee not following the path settings

« on: January 18, 2019, 02:06:24 AM »

I am exporting to the local hard disc, and it still will not show unix paths, even with the pictured settings.

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Questions / Re: MusicBee not following the path settings

« on: January 16, 2019, 12:47:46 PM »

Right clicking on a playlist and or drag and dropping a playlist do not export playlists for me with unix file paths.

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Portable Devices / Re: MTP devices sync takes forever - workarounds?

« on: January 14, 2019, 12:15:30 PM »

that is the version i'm using. I've noticed it can sync eventually as that thread says, sometimes it just takes quite a few minutes.

However the playlists still do not have the proper unix pathing in them: https://getmusicbee.com/forum/index.php?topic=27692.0

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Portable Devices / MTP devices sync takes forever - workarounds?

« on: January 14, 2019, 04:15:55 AM »

MB v3.3.6952 - originally produced on latest 3.2
Windows 10

I have a galaxy Note 8, it gets detected, I choose to only sync my playlists. It takes forever to sync. Any remedies for working with MTP devices? I can't use it as a USB device sadly.

I'm currently syncing to a virtual device as a folder on my PC, until i get around this.

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Questions / MusicBee not following the path settings

« on: January 14, 2019, 04:11:44 AM »

I want:
/storage/3EC3-1FFB/Music/blah

I get:
..\Music\Shoji Meguro\Persona 5  Sounds of Rebellion\1-18 - Last Surprise.mp3

MB v3.3.6952
Windows 10

I'm syncing to a virtual folder on my PC.

Here are my relevant settings:
https://imgur.com/gallery/zSdooar

So as you can see, it ignores the rename piece in the global settings. Device settings ignores the unix bit, but not the relative part. Export doesn't work properly either - it puts my PC's music file location in instead of the relative path as it says it should be on the global library settings.

Not sure where to go from here. Thanks for looking.

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Questions / Re: Music tab and Audiobooks tab are sharing their sort by? How to separate?

« on: October 28, 2018, 08:30:15 PM »

bump

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Questions / Music tab and Audiobooks tab are sharing their sort by? How to separate?

« on: October 24, 2018, 06:09:38 AM »

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I have a music tab pinned and audiobook tab pinned, and whenever I click Album > Sort By > Genre, both tabs are sorted. How can I separate, eg sort my audiobooks by genra and music by date added?

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Separate nuisance, is it possible to disallow the creation of more tabs? as in lock them now that I have the only two i need music & audiobooks. The left hand panel under Library - <name> opens duplicate tabs if you click music or audiobooks :/

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Portable Devices / Re: Not Detecting MTP if plugged in after MusicBee Starts

« on: April 22, 2018, 03:53:58 AM »

 Surely there's a way to get this working without a restart?

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Bug Reports / Case-senisitve in library but not on file transfer

« on: September 25, 2017, 05:32:33 AM »

I'm trying to transfer files via a mounted ftp drive. The android device does not have case sensitive file naming (I think) and windows does not either. My windows library has a band saved named BAPTISTS and Baptists as the artists, and in the library they are properly saved together under the folder baptists. However, on file transfer, Musicbee takes the artist name as-is and this leads to file write errors.

The details of what it does are weird, and probably not that important to anyone else: it makes a new folder for each file, and appends the number of duplicates, so basically it tries to write to the folder Baptists when BAPTISTS already exists, sees the folder exists but instead of writing into it, makes a new folder with Baptists (1) and continues iterating - it never puts the contents of the folder inside Baptists(X), I assume because the folder doesn't match the name it was expected. Regardless, it's bad behavior, that I'm trying to correct.

The immediate solution is to just rename artists, but with a massive library that's rough to impossible. I saw there was an autotagging capitalize tool that I might try, but it still seems like whatever export logic that MusicBee already uses to create match it's library folders should be preserved on export as well.