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Questions / Re: musicbee auto organize libary, leaving itunes, serato

« on: April 17, 2019, 08:29:38 PM »

frankz, for one, apple is about to split itunes up into multuple apps, and there's a lot of unknowns there. itunes might not work the same as it has for the last decade.

but other than that, itunes is the last part of me in the apple ecosystem, and I want to leave. never wanted an iphone, got rid of my macbook a few years ago, etc. and couldn't be happier.

re: monitering an incoming folder, are you suggesting i can basically have two different library folders?


Right now, itunes orders music like below
C:\Users\Name\Music\iTunes\iTunes Music\The Cure/ETC...

I'd just like to make sure that
1. when I start renaming folders, that MB will make the necessary changes to the track file names (that serato will then read and function from)
and
2. Moving forward, for new music, that as long as I'm moving the files to the correct, general library folder, that MB will organize the files similar to itunes...


Also, completely unrelated but while I have the attention, itunes has a small but great option to click on a track and see which playlists that track already is in...does MB have this feature and I'm just not seeing it? and if not, is there a way to enact?

Thank you both for the discussion.

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Questions / Re: musicbee auto organize libary, leaving itunes, serato

« on: April 17, 2019, 05:02:37 PM »

franz, i hear you, but i do like my files in one location.

when importing music, itunes creates a copy for itself and neatly organizes it by artist, album, etc.
all i'm looking for is musicbee to act the same way.

These are opposite desires.

no, they're not. once itunes creates its copy and it's filed and organized and easily reachable, i trash the other file. it's worked perfectly for 10+ years.

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Questions / Re: musicbee auto organize libary, leaving itunes, serato

« on: April 17, 2019, 05:01:24 PM »

serato doens't make/use its own copies of files. it just reads them for its purposes.

i'd like to know if musicbee's organiziation settings work similarly to itunes...naming pathways, etc.


with musicbee and the library settings you're referring to, i'd have to move the files to the library folder...but once i did that, musicbee would take care of the rest and move files where they need go to stay organized?

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Questions / Re: musicbee auto organize libary, leaving itunes, serato

« on: April 17, 2019, 04:40:03 PM »

Hi, welcome to the forum!

The good news is that you don't have to go from no organization to auto-organization in one giant leap...

thank you, adept, but this is exactly what's kept me from adopting musicbee far earlier...
i don't want to mess with ANY of this. i'm sure this interests plenty of people, but there are far too many choices to make (and things that can go wrong) and i simply cannot have my library pathways be destroyed. not only would i have to fix my music library, i would have to do the same to my serato libary, and it would simply take too much time. i have too much work depending on this all going smoothly.

franz, i hear you, but i do like my files in one location. maybe we're referring to different things. if i import new music, i'd like to be able to do so and not have to worry about mantually moving folders around.
when importing music, itunes creates a copy for itself and neatly organizes it by artist, album, etc.
all i'm looking for is musicbee to act the same way.

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Questions / Re: Casting MusicBee from PC to Chromecast - UPDATE

« on: April 17, 2019, 03:38:31 PM »

I've used Airfoil for years with different music players and have had no problems with streaming to my different chromecasts.

It's worth the few dollars.

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Questions / musicbee auto organize libary, leaving itunes, serato

« on: April 17, 2019, 03:21:26 PM »

hi all

i'm trying to leave itunes behind for good and clicking musicbee's auto organise option is terrifying to me.

i'd like to rename my music library folder to something other than "itunes" and be done with the app all together, but i've got a large library and have done hours and hours of work on organizing, upgrading files, artwork, etc.

to be more specific, i use itunes to organize playlists that i then use in serato, a dj app.
serato works seamlessly with itunes intergration, and i'm looking for the same thing with musicbee.

would anyone be willing to do a bit of hand holding with me and talk me through transitioning to musicbee without my file pathways becoming all garbled?
would be very grateful.