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And I have kept that folder under \Indian Ocean. I think this is incorrect. This album should be under \Various Artists.

If you're asking MusicBee to treat each folder as an album, then this is probably the problem.


Ummm.... this comment I am not clear about. Could you please clarify what the problem is?

Are you saying that setting the preference "files for each album are organized in their own folder" is the problem? Should choose the other option underneath this option?

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As for missing album artist tag...what should it be? "Various Artists"?
When/If there is no <album artist> tag, MB assumes <artist> equals <album artist>
When you have a compilation, use "Various Artists" as the <album artist> and use the actual track artist as <artist>

Thanks for validating my suspicion. I will update both the location of that album and update the "album artist" tag and check if that makes a difference.

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Questions / Re: Casting MusicBee from PC to Chromecast - UPDATE
« on: December 31, 2019, 03:05:20 PM »
I use a Chromecast Audio connected to my music system via an optical sPDIF cable and also a regular Chromecast connected to my TV using HDMI (in a different room).
My music files are sitting on a network share on a Windows 10 PC which works a  dedicated "server", always on in my household.

On my Android phone, I have VLC
VLC is able to see files on my server.
Before playing music in VLC, I tell VLC to cast to Chromecast.
When I hit play, Chromecast plays the music.
After that I can even turn off my Android phone, even shut it down or reboot...music keeps playing.

Simple! Free. No configuration, no transcoding, nothing installed on the server. It just works!

Note, this has no involvement with DLNA or MusicBee.

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Sorry for the delay in responding.....holidays ;-)

1. I am using version 3.3.7261

2. Hovering over the i says "Missing tag: year"

3. Yes, as shown in the screenshot, album artist is absent.

4. I posted a screenshot of the folder structure earlier. See my post above, dated "December 14, 2019, 01:31:36 AM"
Yes, this album consists of a folder called "The Very Best of MTV Unplugged Vol.1"
Then there is a CD1 and CD2 underneath it.
Those folders contain many tracks, not only those 5 shown in my screenshot, they are from other artists.

So I think I can see what the problem is now:
This particular album is a compilation, of various artists, not just Indian Ocean.
And I have kept that folder under \Indian Ocean. I think this is incorrect. This album should be under \Various Artists.

Am I correct?

As for missing album artist tag...what should it be? "Various Artists"?

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Hmmm...ok maybe I should learn about how to update metadata for my music files.
Is there a good starting point (maybe a tutorial) which is relevant to MB?

A few more questions:

1. Where does the metadata go? In the file or MB's own DB?
I would hope it goes to the files themselves, so that next time I have to re-install MB or switch to another music management application, all my hard work would still be there ;-)


2. In MB, after I changed the 'what defines an album' setting in MB to "own folder"..... nothing changed.
My files are properly placed in folders, shown in the screenshot I posted above. I also did "rescan all files".......but why was there no change in the MB library?


3. Looks like the albums which are ripped in wav format are the ones MB is having the most trouble with.
I heard wav has very little metadata support (but not totally zero). I really do not want to re-encode wav as flac (mostly because my car is able to read wav via USB)

Edit: I just found out that this is not true...check out the screenshot. These files are mp3 and do have tags, MB just thinks those tags are inconsistent.......not sure why........it seems OK to me


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ok so I changed the preferences>> sorting / grouping >> grouping >>  to "files for each..."

That made no difference. I closed and re-opened MB, hoping it will group or detect or something......looks like it tried to read files again (judging from high network activity for a couple of minutes)......but in the end.........the library still looks like the same....

01,02 etc, no cover art for these bogus albums.

Sure, maybe my tags are messed up.........but I am not too sure about that.........maybe I am expecting too much............but the other programs I have used, windows media player, MM, windows 10 own player (what is its name. Groove?)...Logitech..........they do not want me to spend a large amount of time editing tags.......sorry, not complaining...........this is just my observation :-(
I really want to use MB :-)

As for artist and tracks, I think it is fine.... check this out:






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Thanks for your response.

No I haven't looked at setting or preference, it's all stock. I'll check those next. All my folders have the album names. I think it goes like this...

Artist ...album...cd# {if any}

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A big hello to everyone!

Total newbie to MB here. Switching from MediaMonkey, so not a stranger to like programs.

I am trying to understand if I am expecting too much from MM. I have a medium sized collection of albums and tracks on my network server (just a Windows 10 machine).

Why is MB having a hard time trying to scan and identify albums when other programs have no issues?
Is there a setting to be changed somewhere or a plugin needed to be installed?

More specifically:
I have around 100 albums in the server.
For many of those albums MB separates the tracks into different albums, 01, 02, 03, etc, with just one or two tracks in each of them.
In contrast an really old program (Logitech Media server) consistently found albums and tracks just fine, all on its own, without me manually editing the library.

To be fair to MB, MM also seems to be doing that but not that badly.

There must me something I am missing.

Any tips are highly appreciated.
Thanks in advance!

-Raj

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