Author Topic: Some Albums Not Being Identified In MusicBee  (Read 967 times)

mm

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New user. I have created a new test library to learn more about Musicbee workings before diving in.

https://imgur.com/a/SnifQoU


The 3 albums are all in the same folder.

Only 2 of the 3 albums have been identified by Musicbee, presumably due to the info included in the tags.

https://imgur.com/a/hSkQaj5

What is the best/easiest way to correct this (as I am sure I will encounter this a lot).
Last Edit: July 30, 2019, 02:18:08 AM by mm

psychoadept

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Well, it looks like you have the album and album artist. I bet if you add those manually (you can do all tracks at once) and then try auto-tag by album, you'll probably find it then. Assuming it's in one of the databases MusicBee uses.
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mm

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When you say add the album manually, do I need to manually remove the one album that was not recognised first?

Can I ask what the manual adding procedure is please?

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You don't need to remove anything. Select the files for ABC - Traffic and open the tag editor (right click, Edit or press Shift + Enter). Then you can type them in.
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captain_paranoia

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Your files are missing metadata tags.

Since you seem to have well-formed filenames, you could also get MB to infer metadata from the filenames.

Select album.
Tools/Tagging Tools/Auto-Tag by Track/Infer and Update Tags from Filename

Use the template:

<Album Artist>-<Album>-<Track#>-<Title>
Last Edit: July 30, 2019, 09:23:57 AM by captain_paranoia

Zak

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What is the best/easiest way to correct this (as I am sure I will encounter this a lot).
Not the answer you're looking for, but it might also be a good time to start a new project converting your .wav files to .flac.
Tag support for .wav files is a lot better than it used to be, but still nowhere near as robust as for .flac.

And you'll save a lot of disk space too!
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