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[rss365]

Hello All
I am new to the forum and musicbee and I need your help, I have close to 6000 files (songs) and I have no idea where to start in musicbee, thus far I have them sitting in the inbox.
They are somewhat of a mess, for example a lot of the titles or tracks start with numbers which i assume is the track number on each songs respected albums, and there are a lot of duplicates as well as just small bits of songs.
anyway I would love to get these organised and cleaned up and any help would be greatly appreciated,
thanks Scott

[CritterMan]

http://musicbee.wikia.com/wiki/

I recommend you start with tagging, then organizing, then The Anatomy of MusicBee.

[rss365]

thanks, I'll start there, although I have no idea what tagging is.

[alec.tron]

https://www.lifewire.com/what-is-music-tagging-2438569

c.

[rss365]

[rss365]

The above pic is what the first few songs of my library looks like, How can I organize something like this?

[psychoadept]

I would start by targeting the tracks with missing info.  It looks like almost all your tracks at least have the title in the filename, so you can use Infer and Update Tags from Filename to fill in missing titles.  If they are organized into folders by artist or album you will have even more success with that method.

http://musicbee.wikia.com/wiki/Auto-Tagging#Infer_and_Update_Tags_From_Filename

If there are tracks you're having trouble identifying from the available info, the Tag Editor offers the ability to scan a track and try to identify it for you.  Just click the "Auto-Tag" at the top of the Tag Editor.

http://musicbee.wikia.com/wiki/Tag_Editor

Right now, it looks like you're sorting by Filename which is not going to be very helpful for keeping artists or albums together.  If your files are somewhat organized, try sorting by URL, which includes the folder structure.  Otherwise, I would sort by Artist or Album.  That will also help group tracks that are missing tags together.

[alec.tron]

Also might be helpful (IF you can select the files from a single album - "Auto-Tagging by Album" allows you to preview the suggested tags before applying them and it tries to be smart and tag the album correctly for you automatically based on the parameters you supply MusicBee with):
http://musicbee.wikia.com/wiki/Auto-Tagging

But, as with all powerful things, and MusicBee can be very powerful when it comes to music-files & music-file-tags, it is worth testing & understanding the tool (and the concept, of music metadata/file-tags in this case) before applying or relying on it.
So copy/duplicate an album of files somewhere and test around to your hearts' content.
c.