Author Topic: artist and title swapped on new files  (Read 174 times)

dschoeni

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Starting with basics ...

When going to a directory containig mp3 files, MusicBee reads it and displays the data, it finds.
As example, I've got hundred of files from epidemic sound, labeled "<title> - <artist>" but no tags set.
Music bee reads it as Artist: <title> and Title: <artist>.
 :-[
Is there any button to exchange it, like on calibre to exchange <title> and <author> of books?
If not: how can I configure MusicBee to read the data differently, like I wish?
(I did not find any setting for this, nor any help in the wiki or forums ...)

Zak

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If the tracks have no tags, MusicBee will assume artist and title from the file name.
You can use the command Tools > Tagging Tools > Auto-Tag by Track > Infer and Update Tags from Filename with the filename template <Title> - <Artist> to set the correct values in the tags.
MusicBee will then use these values instead.
Bee excellent to each other...

dschoeni

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Great!

Altough, I was first trying it, but by changing the predefined string, which was already there [<artist> - <title>]. I changed it to [<title> - <artist>], which was not working.
Now I've tried it again, using your suggestion without the brackets ...

Thank you, this works fine  :) .