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[zirum]

Some songs sometimes gets imported with name tag containing both artist and track # as well. I discover about once a week one file in an entire album like this. Rest of the tags on the file is correct, even the "Artist" and "Track #" tag. I currently have about 218 (out of 22k) tracks of this kind in my library.

Anyone else this has been happening to?

[JimH]

It's likely that this is what's in the tags.  How were they tagged? 

You could probably do this if you used Library Tools/Fill properties from filename and didn't do it correctly.  That may be the source of the problem.

[zirum]

I am not entirely sure, but i do belive some tracks where tagged with a previous tagging software i used prior to MC. Ill try to investigate some more...

[JimH]

If the files are named correctly, you can use MC's Library Tools to do Fill properties from file name.  Try a few before you do very many.

[marinero]

anyone know how to make a rule which correctly fills properties when the filename looks, for example, like this:

\\Nas-01-37-9a\media\Music\Assorted\25 Years Celebration Cd1\Bob & Marcia - Young Gifted & Black\00?  or like this? 

\\Nas-1-37-9a\media\Music\Ralph McTell\A Collection Of His Love Songs\Ralph McTell - Promises.wav

[mlefebvre]

Sure.

In "Directories" put in:

\\Nas-1-37-9a\media\Music\[Artist]\[Album]

And under "Filename" put in:

[Ignore] - [Name]

The "Ignore" above is only needed since the artist name was already picked up in the "Directories" section.

Michel.

[JimH]

Try a few before you do very many.

[mlefebvre]

Try a few before you do very many.

Good advice! (especially since I'm just now having my first gulp of coffee.... ;-))

Michel.

[marinero]

thanks Michel. 

[marko]

[Ignore] - [Name]

The "Ignore" above is only needed since the artist name was already picked up in the "Directories" section.

I prefer [] - [name] as it's quicker to type.

[221bBS]

Sure.

In "Directories" put in:

\\Nas-1-37-9a\media\Music\[Artist]\[Album]

And under "Filename" put in:

[Ignore] - [Name]

The "Ignore" above is only needed since the artist name was already picked up in the "Directories" section.

Michel.

I like \\Nas-1-37-9a\media\Music\[Album Artist]\[Album]

And under "Filename" put in:

[Artist] - [Name]

[marinero]

I'm still finding it difficult to follow/understand the filename and directory conventions in the library tools section of the Help Contents.  If anyone's got a couple of examples which show the logic I'd much appreciate it. 

At some point I used MC to 're-file' my library and now when using e.g.Squeezebox or I - tunes, or Windows, all fields appear in the 'name' column as one long filename.  Have I mis-tagged properties?  Or does this problem arise because of choosing WAV files?   I'd like to correct the file structure so that the music fields are read correctly.

Tx.