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Don't unify different versions of the album (16 and 24 bits)
blgentry:
1. I am not a JRiver employee. I'm just a customer, so I have no input on adding features or functions to the product.
2. If your albums have two well defined Publishers, I would suggest that you build a second library field to hold that other publisher data. Or construct a new publisher field that can hold both publishers and let you use that data how you want in your views. This concept of organizing by "publisher" is not familiar to me, so I'm guessing at what you want. My guess is that you like to look at everything that a particular music production company has released. That's quite different than how I am used to looking up or browsing my music collection, so I'm not sure what would be important to you when browsing that way.
3. Adding new albums is easy. You just edit the meta data one time for each album. I have to wonder why your existing albums only have the publisher set on one song though. Is this a mistake from the publisher? Or is this a mistake you made a long time ago when you started? Either way, adding Publisher to new albums should be very fast as you can do the whole album with one click.
4. You have 22,000 albums and 30 to 50 publishers. That would mean 30 to 50 operations like I described in order to write the correct publisher field to every song in every album. It's work, but it's not all that much work. After you do it one time, it's done forever. As discussed above, doing it for new albums is very fast and easy.
Ongoing metadata maintenance is part of having a music collection. In fact, it's what makes a collection usable.
Brian.
wer:
Neither Brian nor I work for JRiver. We're just users who are trying to help you.
--- Quote from: LETRA on September 27, 2019, 01:19:14 pm ---There are albums that have two publishers. In jazz it is very common that there is an original publisher and a reissue in a parent publisher.
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Then create an additional library field named something like "Reissue Publisher" and put the original publisher in one field and the reissue publisher (if any) in that field.
--- Quote from: LETRA on September 27, 2019, 01:19:14 pm ---The second problem is that every time I add new albums in 24 bits I will have to repeat the process.
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This isn't a real problem. It's just normal maintenance. You're complaining about having to make sure the metadata for a new album you add is accurate and tagged correctly. That's your job as the curator of your collection.
MC makes it easy to edit your tags on an automated basis, including changing a tag on 20,000 files in a single step. You also have to option to make fields "relational" so that editing the tag for one track in an album sets that value for all tracks. (Google "jriver relational fields")
You need to use these tools to ensure your collection is tagged correctly.
Good luck...
LETRA:
--- Quote from: wer on September 27, 2019, 02:23:28 pm ---Neither Brian nor I work for JRiver. We're just users who are trying to help you.
Then create an additional library field named something like "Reissue Publisher" and put the original publisher in one field and the reissue publisher (if any) in that field.
This isn't a real problem. It's just normal maintenance. You're complaining about having to make sure the metadata for a new album you add is accurate and tagged correctly. That's your job as the curator of your collection.
MC makes it easy to edit your tags on an automated basis, including changing a tag on 20,000 files in a single step. You also have to option to make fields "relational" so that editing the tag for one track in an album sets that value for all tracks. (Google "jriver relational fields")
You need to use these tools to ensure your collection is tagged correctly.
Good luck...
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I have been using JRiver for many years. Thank you for your probably well-meaning help but the advices you give is not very good and denotes a lack of information, understanding and empathy. Greetings.
wer:
--- Quote from: LETRA on September 27, 2019, 02:44:00 pm ---I have been using JRiver for many years. Thank you for your probably well-meaning help but the advices you give is not very good and denotes a lack of information, understanding and empathy.
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Indeed, on your part. The advice given was good for the issue as it was presented. But apparently we're looking at a translated version of what you are saying, and you are looking at a translated version of what we are saying. The fact that you either don't like or don't understand the advice doesn't make the advice wrong. Perhaps I shouldn't bother to try and help you, but I am. You might want to consider posting screenshots of how your files are tagged or find some other way to better illustrate what you think the problem is, or find a person to translate for you, or post in your native language to see if someone can help you that way.
JimH:
--- Quote from: LETRA on September 25, 2019, 07:28:20 am ---Hello. I wish that JRiver don't unify different versions of the album (16 and 24 bits). I have tried a couple of solutions found in the forum but I need to have the "expand complete albums" switch activated in the library view because I organize the views by publisher and sometimes some tracks of the album don't carry the publisher tag. How can I do it? Is there any solution?
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Just change the name of the Album. Add "24 bit" or similar to those files.
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