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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: go to next higher or lower entry in column browser on tag change

« on: June 27, 2015, 10:25:42 PM »

"Edit: Tangent, but I managed to solve this particular problem quickly using the reencode tag command from Additional Tagging & Reporting Tools.  I think the adjustment to column browser behavior would still be helpful, though."

can you explain how this was done?   This problem is really annoying to me as well.  thanks.

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Questions / file organization question

« on: June 21, 2015, 10:46:14 PM »

Is there any way to rename the folders my song files are in, BUT still keep those original folder names?   For instance, I can set a new folder to put my new file naming structure in, but it simply moves the old file and folders over to that new place.   I just want to create a copy with the new naming structure and keep the old file naming structure in place.    any way to do this? 

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Questions / Re: folder.jpg vs. cover.jpg - What is the difference?

« on: June 16, 2015, 03:38:01 AM »

why not just embed the art in the music file?

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Questions / external mp3 tagger

« on: June 09, 2015, 05:31:02 PM »

So I use all the internal taggers built into MB (gracenote, musicbrainz, freedb, last.fm)  but notice some of the metadata is off (year especially).    Is there any external tagging tool that I could use in conjuction with these that is easy to implement so I can quickly retag music and have it instantly show up in the library like the internal ones I use?  How would I go about installing it if there is one that is compatabile with MB?

thanks guys

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Questions / embedded artwork vs. separate folder

« on: June 09, 2015, 01:15:05 AM »

What are the advantages and disadvantages of embedding your album artwork vs. having a separate folder for it?  Seems like it only makes sense to embed the artwork, but I have heard some people say that you could run into compatibility issues with certain players in the future if you don't have a separate folder for the artwork.

curious your guys' thoughts

thanks!

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Questions / renaming artist name makes you go back from beginning of artist list

« on: June 07, 2015, 09:47:39 AM »

I'm retagging a bunch of my music one by one and whenever I change the artist name, wherever I was at in the artist colum, it goes back to the beginning of the entire artist list instead of just going to the next artist in the list.  Anyone know if there is a workaround for this? 

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MusicBee Wishlist / Not losing song place when deleting or updating artist name

« on: August 11, 2014, 05:07:18 AM »

I'm going through all my songs one by one and when I either delete an artist or update the artist so it starts with a new letter, whatever place I left off at in the 'artist' scroll bar, gets reset and I go back to the very beginning.  Very easy to lose place of where you were.  I wish it wouldn't do this.

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Questions / Re: Tagging bug?

« on: August 11, 2014, 05:05:14 AM »

sweet.  Thanks!

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Questions / Re: Tagging and renaming automatically one song at a time?

« on: August 11, 2014, 01:53:56 AM »

Cool, thanks.   Guess I will just update tags now, sort them all into playlists and then autoorganise the music all at once instead one at a time.

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Questions / Re: Tagging and renaming automatically one song at a time?

« on: August 11, 2014, 01:01:41 AM »

thanks.  I assume the filename has to stay in the same folder though, correct? 

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Questions / Tagging bug?

« on: August 11, 2014, 01:00:44 AM »

Haven't had this issue before but when I go to update tags for an artist (i.e. 'auto tag by album' the artist name in the results section shows the artist and all the genres of the artist.  For instance, I get this for the new artist name....

'blackstreetcontemporary r&b hiphop hip rnb and dance hallr&b'

I have to manually delete all those genres to update tags.

Any idea why this is happening? 

thanks

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Questions / Re: Tagging and renaming automatically one song at a time?

« on: August 11, 2014, 12:36:41 AM »

So this can't be done automatically (i.e. when I update my tags it also updates the filename)?



Thanks!

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Questions / Tagging and renaming automatically one song at a time?

« on: August 11, 2014, 12:22:49 AM »

Does anyone know if it is possible to tag and auto rename a file as I go through my library 1 song at a time?   My library is a mess, and I'm adding songs to a playlist, but am going through my songs 1 by 1 and tagging them, but then want the filename to be updated based on what I tagged it.  

From what I understand you can go into 'preferences' and click 'autoorganise files' BUT it does it to all files at once.  

Also, if this isn't possible, when I add a song to a playlist, but decide later to reorganise my filenames the playlist won't work anymore, correct?

thanks guys!

ps - I know I can change filenames manually but this is pretty tedious. Want to do it automatically but only 1 file at a time.