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Questions / My uninstall is missing

« on: March 13, 2024, 07:52:03 PM »

I was in the middle of doing an update for MusicBee and my system crashed and when I rebooted, I have had nothing but issues.  So was going to uninstall and reinstall the software.  But can't find any links to uninstall.  I'm not sure what happened or caused this issue.  I have been working on putting all of my music files in one place and it turns out my music collection is much large than expected (about 300,000 files and about 4 TB now all on an external hard drive dedicated to my music files.)  The app loads up but my library is missing.  Files are all still on disk just not reading it.  I tried reinstalling but nothing happens without uninstall.  

I am on Windows 10, and MusicBee should be up to date.  I can find my backup file but no uninstall link.  

Any suggestions on how to fix this?  My computer knowledge isn't the greatest but with instructions I can usually fix it.

Thanks so much for any help.

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Questions / Re: Library is a mess now after coming over from iTunes. Please help!!

« on: November 30, 2013, 08:07:31 PM »

I agree on the 60% time of being correct, sometimes just playing with possible name combination and it comes up. 

For now trying to organize my complete music file to one drive with no duplicates.  Going to be time consuming but keep finding little tricks along the way to speed it up.   Once I get the worst of this cleaned up and on my portable hard drive then will post my question on the best way to maintain the back up drive as main file.  I just want to be able to add music from any source ie down load a torrent/cd/disk/online from a shared folder have it save to my portable drive always but I want to be able to have access without the portable drive attached to my computer, so say my favourite tracks in my laptop's music file and not come up as duplicates, but I'm a ways away from that.

Making a list of wishes and bugs but will post when I'm sure it's not operator error.

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Questions / Re: Library is a mess now after coming over from iTunes. Please help!!

« on: November 30, 2013, 04:51:20 PM »

I have been using that one and then another small free program called "Free Music Tag Finder" and have been able to find some of them.  The Tag Finder has found some of the old music or not popular stuff and old collection or K-Tel type files.  But still have more files to try.  The only problem with these type of programs is yes I get the name of the song and then the artist name "hopefully" and it wasn't a remake or "cover".  But now I have all of the these albums with just one track on them or my files with missing artist name or album name change so actually just moving from one incomplete folder to another.  I run searches for albums based on artist ie all the files with 1 - 5  tracks sort by album and see if anything comes up, who knows could be an album that I downloaded and the information didn't come through or from someone else. But it's the Various Artist files I have the most problems with, no idea how to search with all the different artists names for some unknown album.  One day I will get this done.  I'm home with nothing better to do I guess.  Name that tune for one is alright I guess

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Questions / Re: Library is a mess now after coming over from iTunes. Please help!!

« on: November 30, 2013, 03:52:06 PM »

I too am one of those who made the mistake of doing too much at once, it was so easy to do!  MB was doing everything I wanted, seemed so straightforward, easy to use, understandable etc unlike so many other media players I test drove that I assumed (I know what assume means and that's why I have spent the last month cleaning my system up as I had 100,000+ files when it happened and didn't write anything nasty as I knew it was my own fault!)

But here is my issue, not sure what to do for now I have unchecked all sorts transfers etc until I get my audio files straightened out.  But now that I have duplicate up to 30 copies of one file it's not easy to clean up.  The ones with 30 copies no problem, but the cleaners still make you decide which is original file to keep, so with 100,000+ files it is very time consuming and then trying to maintain file structures it driving my OCD nuts.  The other issue with MB to do duplicates with Unknown file names, I had music files that are missing tags, can't find them and are in a file called "name that tune" that I try to name and then find a tag so system will quit pulling it up.  But Can't run duplicate until they are repaired or so the system lets me know.  Will run update and see how it goes with cleaning now. 

But I didn't know that it didn't work on external drives.  My audio files is over 500 Gig, so is on external drive and my hard drive, was trying to copy over to external only but then ran into this mess, so now have 200 G on my hard drive and 350G on external and from my searching I found files that hadn't moved due to name too long file errors that are still on hard drive or MB seen as duplicate but actually wasn't but the album was unnamed.  So I have been using MB to clean up but not sure if I am making progress or not. But what I did was display filename and path along with the other standard files and going through by album and checking each one individually.  Time consuming but as my music is on 2 different drives I am finding that my files are everywhere so  with going through I can pick and choose which ones I keep, which ones I delete and make sure I get the entire album and not missing one track or update any missing information like title or artist if another copy has gotten it before I delete it.  There has to be an easier way to do this but for now I think this is the safest.  For now my delete file is going to a back up file and not actually delete unless it's more than 2 copies.  Any suggestions to clean this up would be great. 

Help with missing tags for old music or collections like Time Music or Top 100 of the 60's would be super helpful rather than listening to the song and trying to remember or looking up the lyrics and do searches for each one then deciding which artist and forget the album issue.  This is what happens when you copy other people's files and add to your own blindly when you didn't know better.  Or victim of a bad program.

Thanks so much, I'll get this mess cleaned up yet!  MB has been the best by far for help! The people on this forum have been great! and to know the creator is still in control and actually listens is amazing and why I recommend this over and over again.