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Questions / Tips for managing huge libraries?

« on: January 28, 2022, 02:14:01 PM »

Hi,

I'm struggling currently with a massive library (51K albums, 757K tracks). It's really slow to use. I am currently using filters to split up the library a bit, but sometimes I want to go to the main library and it's too slow and I get frustrated.

What is everyone else with a library similar as mine doing? Is there any way to speed things up?

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Questions / Sorting Album Artist by number of albums

« on: September 26, 2021, 01:36:01 PM »

I am trying to find out what artists have the most albums in my collection, but I'm struggling to find out how I can do that within MusicBee. Any ideas?

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Questions / More ways to separate albums?

« on: August 22, 2021, 08:42:00 AM »

In my Library, I have several versions of certain albums, but the problem is that if they have same Album Artist and Album Name, they look like they are merged in Music Bee. For example I have Eraser by Alan Silvestri, one from Atlantic Records (https://www.discogs.com/Alan-Silvestri-Eraser-Motion-Picture-Score/release/5545389) and one from La-La Land Records (https://www.discogs.com/Alan-Silvestri-Eraser-Music-From-The-Motion-Picture-Soundtrack/release/3531230).

The way I could do it is change the Album name of one of them, but for my own OCD I need them to be clean and just have thew actual Album Name. In the Customize Panel I am showing Album Name, Album Artist and Publisher on each album so I know which is which. For the albums in question (The two merged Eraser by Atlantic and La-La Land Records), it shows up as Atlantic Records.

Is this the way MusicBee works? Is there no way to separate albums based on Publisher for example?

Here's how it looks:

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Questions / Converting Custom Tags to MusicBee

« on: January 17, 2019, 05:35:03 AM »

So I have a few custom tags that I can look up in Tag Inspector that I want to be able to use in MusicBee, specifically the #Helium Custom Field tags:


Is there a way to use Custom Tags to get it to MusicBee?

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Bug Reports / Rating bug

« on: December 25, 2018, 12:44:03 PM »

There's a strange thing going on with ratings.

I have a view set up with Title - Album Artist - Genre - Ratings, and the Ratings only cares what I rate the first track. An example:


So if I don't give rating to the first track, but rates everything else, MusicBee shows the album with 0 stars.

I'm using MusicBee 3.3.6904

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MusicBee Wishlist / Cuztomize Tag Editor

« on: May 01, 2018, 11:10:11 AM »

Most of my tag editing is done with the Tags tab, but I always have to go to Tags (2) tab to find a custom tag that I frequently use. It would be great if we could customize what tags where available to edit on the Tags tab.

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Questions / Customize Tag Editor

« on: May 01, 2018, 10:19:45 AM »

Is it possible to customize the tag editor? For example, there's a tag I use every time, but it's on Tags (2). Is it possible to put it on Tags where my main editing is happening?

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Questions / Recording Year / Release Year

« on: April 20, 2018, 09:48:45 AM »

I have been using Helium Music Manager for many years now, but I'm not happy with the "new" Helium so I'm looking into MusicBee which seems to have everything and more. One of the things I'm missing though is a "release year" tag. I'm not up to speed with MP3 ID tags, but perhaps it isn't in the official standard and the Helium tag is just something they made for their application?

I could solve this with custom tags, but the problem I'm having is that to import my already tagged 100.000+ tracks that I have on Helium with separate recording/release year, it would take way to long to do this individually on 10.000+ albums.

So, is there any solution, or do I have to stick with Helium for the time being?