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I have an issue where some artists show up repeatedly in the list of artists in the Music Explorer and Music tabs. So for example I have two entries for Ab-Soul, with one album listed in the first, one in the second.

There's no difference I can find in the way they're tagged; I've tried copying the artist name from one to the other repeatedly, they seem to be exactly the same. I've also tried removing these albums from the library and re-adding them, which also doesn't solve the issue. And I've noticed that the songs from the duplicate artist don't get synced to my phone, so it's a problem in that those albums essentially become impossible to sync.

This happens quite rarely, it doesn't affect many of the artists in my library, but I don't know of a good way of detecting when it is happening besides scrolling through the artist list looking for them manually, and I have no idea what's causing the problem or how to fix it. Any advice on figuring this out would be appreciated!

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No, the problem seems to be continuing. Another album I'd just added back in has vanished, the whole folder containing it is gone and I get the following message from MusicBee:

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The following files were not saved. Check the error log for details

1-01 Fists of Fury.flac  --  D:\MusicBee\Music\Kamasi Washington\Heaven and Earth\
     The system cannot find the file specified.

1-02 Can You Hear Him.flac  --  D:\MusicBee\Music\Kamasi Washington\Heaven and Earth\
     The system cannot find the file specified.

1-03 Hub-Tones.flac  --  D:\MusicBee\Music\Kamasi Washington\Heaven and Earth\
     The system cannot find the file specified.

1-04 Connections.flac  --  D:\MusicBee\Music\Kamasi Washington\Heaven and Earth\
     The system cannot find the file specified.

1-05 Tiffakonkae.flac  --  D:\MusicBee\Music\Kamasi Washington\Heaven and Earth\
     The system cannot find the file specified.

1-06 The Invincible Youth.flac  --  D:\MusicBee\Music\Kamasi Washington\Heaven and Earth\
     The system cannot find the file specified.

1-07 Testify.flac  --  D:\MusicBee\Music\Kamasi Washington\Heaven and Earth\
     The system cannot find the file specified.

1-08 One of One.flac  --  D:\MusicBee\Music\Kamasi Washington\Heaven and Earth\
     The system cannot find the file specified.

2-01 The Space Travelers Lullaby.flac  --  D:\MusicBee\Music\Kamasi Washington\Heaven and Earth\
     The system cannot find the file specified.

2-02 Vi Lua Vi Sol.flac  --  D:\MusicBee\Music\Kamasi Washington\Heaven and Earth\
     The system cannot find the file specified.

2-03 Street Fighter Mas.flac  --  D:\MusicBee\Music\Kamasi Washington\Heaven and Earth\
     The system cannot find the file specified.

2-04 Song for the Fallen.flac  --  D:\MusicBee\Music\Kamasi Washington\Heaven and Earth\
     The system cannot find the file specified.

2-05 Journey.flac  --  D:\MusicBee\Music\Kamasi Washington\Heaven and Earth\
     The system cannot find the file specified.

2-06 The Psalmnist.flac  --  D:\MusicBee\Music\Kamasi Washington\Heaven and Earth\
     The system cannot find the file specified.

2-07 Show Us the Way.flac  --  D:\MusicBee\Music\Kamasi Washington\Heaven and Earth\
     The system cannot find the file specified.

2-08 Will You Sing.flac  --  D:\MusicBee\Music\Kamasi Washington\Heaven and Earth\
     The system cannot find the file specified.

Checking the error log, a bit before the above text (half an hour ago) I see this, not sure if it's related or not:

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19/08/2022 18:07:05 - 10.0.22000.0 - 3.4.7805.33439D - System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
   at #=zziapYCHkKIL0B5EplaYmmhGl87_u.#=zU1HwK_k=.#=zwO7tTAtcQHpV(String #=zYwQUFZE=)
   at #=zziapYCHkKIL0B5EplaYmmhGl87_u.#=zATl85q0rA3pg.Dispose(Boolean #=zoKOBUQQ=)
   at System.ComponentModel.Component.Finalize()

At the same time, the album art for this album has been randomly applied to all the other albums by the same artist, and to a bunch of random albums by other artists. Very confused by what's happening here and what would be causing it (whether it's musicbee or not).

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I don't know what you did, but the answer to this specific question is Tools->Tagging Tools->Other "Files to Edit" Filters->Show Dead Links

Hopefully someone can make heads or tails of the rest. Unless you're on a shared network drive or NAS, anything deleted should be in your recycle bin, but I don't know why anything would be deleted and MB would usually make you confirm that something should be unless you turned that off.

Thanks, that's a useful tool! Checking there, it doesn't look like too many files were affected thankfully, just a few albums and some random tracks. No obvious pattern to it, none of them were tracks I'd done anything with recently, but at least I can fix them now and keep an eye out for if it happens again.

The file organiser/ auto-organiser doesnt delete music files, it just moves them.
If the main panel was showing an ! exclamation by the missing files then thats a good indicator the files were deleted or moved somewhere else outside of MB

Makes sense, I suppose if it had moved them it would still know where they are! I did try out some other syncing solutions recently (Media Monkey, Sync Thing), but I'd already given up on them and uninstalled them days before this happened, so assumed it wouldn't be their fault. But it's possible, I suppose. For now I'll just replace the files and see if it happens again at some point.

Thanks for your replies!

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Questions / Files possibly deleted by the auto-organise library feature
« on: August 19, 2022, 06:29:40 AM »
I find the "Move files to organised folder" feature very helpful and always use it once I've got things properly tagged. So I thought I'd try out the "auto-organise media files" checkbox so I wouldn't have to remember to do this manually, but I've been having a problem with it.

It notified me just now that various files were no longer there and asked me whether I wanted to remove them from the library. I'm 100% sure those files were there before enabling this feature, and they were appropriately tagged—as I said, I already used the "organised folder" feature for my whole library before this without any problems—but now they are indeed gone: not there where they should be, not in the recycle bin, and if they've been moved to some other location, I can't find them. This is some full albums and some random tracks—I can't really discern any logic to it since the files are gone now, but maybe it affected files of a certain format? Just a guess though.

Another possibly relevant factor: I was syncing the whole library (~35,000 files) to my phone using the wired sync feature when this happened. Because it's such a large sync, I was doing it overnight, and when I woke up this morning I found my computer had gone to sleep, aborting the sync. So I'm wondering if the interaction of the sync, the auto-organise, and the computer interrupting them by going to sleep could have caused this somehow?

I could be misidentifying what's causing the problem, but it seems to have happened once I turned this feature on, so it's my best guess for now. If anyone has any other ideas what would have caused these files to disappear, please let me know. I've turned the auto-organise feature off now, anyway.

My other question: is there a quick way to see all the files in my library that seem to be missing? They're marked with that exclamation point warning symbol in the interface, but I would like a way of showing them all in one place so I can see which ones need fixing/redownloading rather than attempt to trawl through my library and find them manually.

Thanks in advance for any help you can offer!

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Portable Devices / Re: Issues syncing with Android (wired)
« on: April 02, 2022, 08:10:16 PM »
Here you go:

01/04/2022 17:05:13 - Copy D:\Soulseek Downloads\complete\selder_\CD3\01 - The Secrete of Jinsinson.flac to SM-A528B\Internal storage\Music\Playlists\J10. Contemporary Jazz\770-Kamasi Washington-The Secrete of Jinsinson.flac
01/04/2022 17:05:13 - Error HRESULT E_FAIL has been returned from a call to a COM component.
01/04/2022 17:05:24 - Copy D:\Soulseek Downloads\complete\selder_\CD3\02 - Will You Love Me Tomorrow.flac to SM-A528B\Internal storage\Music\Playlists\J10. Contemporary Jazz\771-Kamasi Washington-Will You Love Me Tomorrow.flac
01/04/2022 17:05:24 - Error HRESULT E_FAIL has been returned from a call to a COM component.
01/04/2022 17:05:25 - Copy D:\Soulseek Downloads\complete\selder_\CD3\03 - My Family.flac to SM-A528B\Internal storage\Music\Playlists\J10. Contemporary Jazz\772-Kamasi Washington-My Family.flac
01/04/2022 17:05:25 - Error HRESULT E_FAIL has been returned from a call to a COM component.
01/04/2022 17:05:25 - Copy D:\Soulseek Downloads\complete\selder_\CD3\04 - Agents of The Multiverse.flac to SM-A528B\Internal storage\Music\Playlists\J10. Contemporary Jazz\773-Kamasi Washington-Agents of the Multiverse.flac
01/04/2022 17:05:26 - Error HRESULT E_FAIL has been returned from a call to a COM component.
01/04/2022 17:05:26 - Copy D:\Soulseek Downloads\complete\selder_\CD3\05 - Ooh Child.flac to SM-A528B\Internal storage\Music\Playlists\J10. Contemporary Jazz\774-Kamasi Washington-Ooh Child.flac
01/04/2022 17:05:26 - Error HRESULT E_FAIL has been returned from a call to a COM component.

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Portable Devices / Re: Issues syncing with Android (wired)
« on: April 02, 2022, 07:29:41 AM »
Thanks for your reply. I'm running version 3.4.7805, and I would have downloaded the installer from the MusicBee site.

In the error log, a few errors like this: "Error HRESULT E_FAIL has been returned from a call to a COM component." These are from specific files that failed to sync during one attempt. But this is an error I've seen occasionally before, usually fixed by just retrying the sync. No errors from when the sync "completed" without actually completing.

I was trying to sync about 4,000 files (though most of them were already on the phone, it was displaying as 4,000 when attempting to sync). Using playlists, if that matters. I just tried again syncing a much smaller number of files (13), and that worked. Notably, it deleted everything else as appropriate but didn't prompt me before doing so like it usually does. I definitely still have that option checked in the settings, so maybe that's part of the error too.

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Portable Devices / Issues syncing with Android (wired)
« on: April 01, 2022, 04:26:54 PM »
I use MusicBee to sync music to my phone, a Samsung A52S running Android 12. I use the wired option, I could never get the wireless syncing to work.

Until recently this usually went pretty smoothly, but now when I try to sync the process stops before it's complete, usually after just a few songs have been synced or even none. It doesn't say it's aborted, it just says "Completed", but obviously it hasn't actually completed the sync.

I did download an update on my phone last week, whereas I've made no recent changes to MusicBee settings, so I'd assume the problem is on the phone's end.

Anyone experienced the same issue or have any idea where to look for solutions?

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Questions / Re: Replacing track title with work and movement
« on: October 15, 2021, 09:44:52 PM »
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Any time you make tag changes outside of MB, you need to rescan the files in order for the changes to appear.
Select the files > right-click > Sent to > File rescan

That's fixed it. Wouldn't have thought to look under "Send to"! Thanks for your help.

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Questions / Re: Replacing track title with work and movement
« on: October 15, 2021, 08:43:27 PM »
Not having much luck with this. First, Picard seemed to struggle to identify much of my library, which is rather messy and consists of tracks from a variety of sources rather than necessarily full albums. And then even for the tracks it could identify, clicking "Save" on them didn't seem to actually do anything to the files/tags as far as I could tell. Maybe I was doing something wrong.

MP3Tag does seem to effectively modify the files in the way I want (except that movement numbers aren't displayed as Roman numerals, but that's pretty minor). But I'm having a hell of a time getting these changes to actually "take" in MusicBee itself. When I look at the track title field in MusicBee, it still shows the old value, even though in Windows Explorer the new title is shown. Is there a way to get MusicBee to take notice of the updated fields somehow? Sorry if this is obvious, I'm not good at this stuff.

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Questions / Re: Replacing track title with work and movement
« on: October 15, 2021, 07:13:06 PM »
Thanks, I'll give this a try!

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Questions / Re: Replacing track title with work and movement
« on: October 15, 2021, 12:05:42 PM »
Unfortunately, I think the only way you'll be able to accomplish this is using the Additional Tagging and Tools plugin or the separate MP3TAG tagging software to retitle your tracks so they can be read by whatever music app you end up using. I'm not an expert on Android music players, but I'm unaware of any that support using custom tags, but if so, you'd still need to use one of the previously mentioned options to send the format you desire to the tag.

Thanks for your input! Would there be an advantage to using those options over just changing track titles within MusicBee manually? At the end of the day, I could always just fill in each track title field manually with the info I want there, but it seems much more time-consuming/finicky than using the work and movement fields. Ideally, it would be nice if I could fill in info in the work/movement number/movement fields and then have that automatically override what's in the track title field. Is that the sort of thing you can do with the software you suggested?

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Questions / Replacing track title with work and movement
« on: October 14, 2021, 09:53:43 PM »
Hi, I'm new to MusicBee (finally got rid of iTunes after getting an Android phone), and I like it a lot so far though I'm still figuring things out.

The only issue I'm having is with work and movement titles for classical music—specifically, they display fine in MusicBee itself but not on my phone (in Samsung Music). I would assume this is just a feature that isn't supported by Samsung Music, so I'm looking for one of two things:

(a) Recommendations for an Android music app (ideally free) that would retain the work and movement info when transferring from MusicBee.
(b) If there's just a quick way of populating the track title field itself with the info from the work and movement fields the same way MusicBee does automatically (i.e. "Work: #. Movement title") but so that it would carry over when syncing to phone.

It would be great to hear suggestions regarding either of these, or any more obvious solution I've missed! Thanks in advance for any assistance.

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