To update all of an album's tracks in one shot, right-click an album cover and choose
Library Tools/Lookup Track Info from Online Database. If you only want to update a specific track or tracks, perform the exact same operation on each track, or several tracks, as needed. More info here:
https://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/YADBRepeating the process is easy - once you've invoked the command, it rises to the top of the menu of recently used commands (see:
Options/Tree in View/Right-Click Recent Command Count).
A couple caveats however:
- For greatest hits/compilation CDs, lookup returns track info for the
actual albums (not the compilation CD itself) and assigned those album names and release years.
- While you can undo the updated info (album name, track name, year, etc.) tags for
Date Tagged and
Date Modified are also updated and will NOT revert with the undo command.
(That may not matter to you, but figured you should know in the event that it does)
That said, this compilation lookup behavior actually accomplishes what I've wanted to do for years with my compilation CDs (capture each tracks actual release year and from which original album) without having to search each track's information manually. This is particularly useful for greatest hits albums with all tracks from the 60s or 70s for example, but the compilation CD itself was released in the 2000's. Having that CD mixed in with CDs
actually released in the 2000s has always bothered me. In addition, MC automatically creates an "average" release year more albums containing multiple years for the date.
I still need to think about the exact workflow and how to automate the process while keeping existing tags intact to the maximum extent possible, but answering your question has been serendipitous.
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