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Portable Devices / idiots guide to syncing anyone

« on: December 04, 2018, 12:31:17 PM »

Hi,

Im new to MusicBee and have spent many months ripping my CD collection to MusicBee. I have over 11,000 songs. So I bought a Pioneer XDR-100R so I can play my music library on the move. I have also added two 200gb SD cards to my device.

So what is the best way to sync from MusicBee to my music player? I have copy/pasted via Explorer, I use window 10, onto one SD card and its full. Is this the best to manually copy the remainder to the 2nd SD card? Surely there is a better way to synchronise my entire library in MusicBee to my Pioneer music player??

Also I am a lyric person. I can search and save lyrics to each song. Is there a way to do this for each Album?

Sorry in advance, im old school and find technology, well not that easy. Please be gentle    

Lastly, can anyone recommend an easy to understand tutorial for MusicBee?

Thanks
M

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Questions / Re: Double CD ripped into two different folders

« on: June 09, 2018, 03:06:09 PM »

Thank you 

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Questions / Double CD ripped into two different folders

« on: June 07, 2018, 07:26:33 PM »

Can someone please tell me how to merge two CDs please? For some reason whne i Ripped the Cd to musicbee it created two separate files. The only difference I can see is one has a '/' and the other has 'and' in the title. How do i merge them?

Thanks
M

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Portable Devices / Re: Trouble transfering music to Astell & Kern AK70

« on: December 17, 2017, 11:26:29 AM »

Thanks Phred. Updated and it worked.

Thanks again
M

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Portable Devices / Re: Trouble transfering music to Astell & Kern AK70

« on: December 14, 2017, 10:25:42 PM »

Version 3.0.6335. Im using the send to option . is it better to use the sync option, and whre is Sync in MB?

Thanks
M

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Portable Devices / Trouble transfering music to Astell & Kern AK70

« on: December 14, 2017, 12:31:47 PM »

Using Windows 10 laptop and Astell and Kern AK70 music device. All are up to date.

I have tried 3 times to 'Send to my..200GB SD card in my AK70. Each time it has successfully transferred only 25% or 70% of my music files. What am I doing wrong? Is there another and better way to Synchronize MusicBee so I get 100% transferred? I tried using Window 'Cast To..' option that did not work. I then chose windows Send to..from File manager to the AK70 SD card. This worked better but still not everything transferred over.
I have over 10,000 songs to upload, it said it will take 12 hours.

Sorry if this has been asked already, i have looked and cant find a similar question

Thank you

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Questions / Re: Importing from Itunes question

« on: August 09, 2017, 07:11:32 PM »

As no one has replied is it possible that MusicBee will not show the location correctly as these files are AAC Audio files and encoded with Itunes ?

I have several thousand I-toons AAC 256k VBR music files - all work normally with MB 

They work normally I just want to know why the location in MB says Itunes when its not, its should say /Ripped Files. I can then delete Itunes - Thanks

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Questions / Re: Importing from Itunes question

« on: August 09, 2017, 05:37:55 PM »

MusicBee does not move files unless you tell it to manually (File > Organize Files) or configure an auto-organize feature.  If you want newly imported files to be moved, you might be interested in Automatically Sweep and Organize New Files, which in Preferences > Library.  The main Auto-Organize feature is found in the same place, and is a little more advanced.  It will automatically rename/reorganize files if you make changes to the tags, etc.

Thanks psychoadept. I'm an old school self confessed music snob! Getting to grips with these things is not easy. I bought a AK70 which is awsum, getting to grips with that as well. When technology is not in in your DNA I guess.

As I'm just backing up, again looking at Preference/Library . So Automatically Sweep and Organise new files will go through my music files and put  them in MusicBee/Ripped Files folder? The location on MusicBee/Edit/location will no longer say Itunes Medi ?? phew!  I will then be able to delete Itunes and all its folders and files, being left with MusicBee only ? Thats what I am trying to achieve  Sorry if this sounds obvious

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Questions / Re: Importing from Itunes question

« on: August 09, 2017, 02:43:29 PM »

As no one has replied is it possible that MusicBee will not show the location correctly as these files are AAC Audio files and encoded with Itunes ?

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Questions / Re: Importing from Itunes question

« on: August 07, 2017, 01:14:39 PM »

Update. I did copy paste one CD, just to see if this resolves the problem, but no. MusicBee still shows the location as in Itunes ?

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Questions / Importing from Itunes question

« on: August 07, 2017, 11:01:43 AM »

I'm new to MusicBee, just getting to grips with it. I want to move everything from Itunes to MusicBee/Ripped Files location. I can see my music in MusicBee but the location is still says itunes, why? So this is what i have done...I have the latest version of Windows and MusicBee and using a laptop.

In MusicBee I click File/Library/Import/Import from Itunes. The hour glass turns for about 10 seconds and stops. There are over 9,000 songs i want to import to musicBee. I can see them in MusicBee, and they play in MusicBee but when I look at Edit and the location, the file is still itunes\itunes Media. Also looking in Explorer I see everything is as it was, its not imported into MusicBee/Ripped Files location. The only ones that have the correct MusicBee location are recently Ripped Files.

Should i copy paste them into Ripped Files ? I do want to import everything including artwork and play count etc.

Help anyone???

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Questions / Re: only just discovered musicbee, wow!

« on: July 31, 2017, 12:31:34 PM »

thanks

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Questions / Re: New to MusicBee have a problem

« on: July 31, 2017, 12:18:26 PM »

By the way. The error i am getting for these .Flac files is "The source file for ?? cannot be found"

Thanks

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Questions / New to MusicBee have a problem

« on: July 31, 2017, 12:06:04 PM »

Sorry if I'm being dumb here but .....I'm using window 10 on a laptop. Tried and re tried to import my music files from ITunes into MusicBee, something has gone wrong.

First I imported direct about 40x CDs into MusicBee as .Flac files. They played perfectly.
I then cut (not copied) and paste from itunes Media/Music folders into Music Bee /Ripped folder.

I can see everything in MusicBee and all the Itunes files play ok. Except the original ripped .Flac now wont play.   

In MusicBee if I look at these .Flac files in Properties/encoded with it says 'reference libFLAC 1.3.1 20141125
Location is MusicBee\Ripped Files\ etc etc.

In Windows explorer I can STILL see all my files in Itunes (I did cut, so wasnt expecting to) and i see nothing in MusicBee. Yet when i look at MusicBee in explorer these .Flac files are not there. They STILL show in Itunes, as we know Itunes wont play .Flac files.

What can i do, other than redo all 40 CDs, so MusicBee again plays and recognises my new .Flac files

I know i have done this importing/copying files a bit cockeyed. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

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Questions / only just discovered musicbee, wow!

« on: July 28, 2017, 05:00:47 PM »

I am new to musicbee and whilst I upload my music from Itunes to musicbee can someone please explain, I need an idiots guide.. how I do I download lyrics to my music collection?. I'm old school and so miss reading LP lyrics and sleeve information.

I'm also just getting to grips with Astell&Kern's A70 ...thats a double wow, its awsum!!

Thank you anyone that takes the time to explain