Organize Library Media/Medium type?

[Simpuhl]

I use Lidarr along with MusicBee and I like how I have it set to organize multi-disc albums like so:

Album Artist\Album Name (Year)\Media Type Disk#\Track# - Song Title

For example:

Disc 1
The 1975\A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships (2018)\Vinyl 01\01 - The 1975.mp3
    
Disc 2
The 1975\A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships (2018)\Vinyl 02\01 - The Man Who Married a Robot   Love Theme.mp3

The problem is, I can't seem to find a Media/Medium Type in MusicBee, am I missing something?

Lidarr calls it Medium and MusicBrainz calls it Media. Does MusicBee call it something different?

[karbock]

Lidarr calls it Medium and MusicBrainz calls it Media. Does MusicBee call it something different?

Welcome to the forum, Simpuhl!

MusicBee has pre-defined custom tag "Media Type". But MusicBee and Picard record them differently:

Software	Tag_Name	ID3v2.3 .mp3	ID3v2.4 .mp3	Windows_Media .asf, .wma	Vorbis_Comment .flac, .ogg, .opus	MPEG-4 .m4a, .mp4	Monkey's_Audio_v2 .ape
MusicBee	Media Type	TMED	TMED	MEDIATYPE	SOURCE MEDIUM	MEDIATYPE	MediaType
Picard	Media	TMED	TMED	WM/Media	MEDIA	MEDIA	Media

Information taken from recent forum thread "Tag Mapping: MusicBee, mp3tag, Picard":
https://getmusicbee.com/forum/index.php?topic=39759.0

EDIT: added tag for Picard/APE v2

[Simpuhl]

So under the field selector, which item am I supposed to select for the Media Type? I don't see "TMED"

[Simpuhl]

I did this, but they all just show up as Unknown Media Type when it is set correctly.

[karbock]

I was just writing a post showing where to define Media Type when you found the right place for it.

If all your files are .mp3, no Tag Mapping should be necessary.
But -- out of experience -- MusicBee must have finished re-scanning your entire collection (so as to add the different values of "Media Type" to its library index) before you can use the new custom tag.

[hiccup]

I did this, but they all just show up as Unknown Media Type when it is set correctly.

As you can see in the Picard vs. MusicBee mapping table for some file types the tag for MEDIA needs to be mapped.
E.g. Vorbis Comment uses MEDIA while MusicBee uses SOURCE MEDIUM

So you will need to create and define a new custom tag (e.g. 'Source Medium') with the correct mappings for all filetypes.
Or (and what's probably better in this case) edit MusicBee's Configuration.xml directly.

[Simpuhl]

I was just writing a post showing where to define Media Type when you found the right place for it.

If all your files are .mp3, no Tag Mapping should be necessary.
But -- out of experience -- MusicBee must have finished re-scanning your entire collection (so as to add the different values of "Media Type" to its library index) before you can use the new custom tag.

Going to let it re-scan and test. Thank you