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Paul

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Renaming artist in DB results in unexpected consequences
« on: April 01, 2002, 06:01:50 pm »
To maintain alphabetical order consistent w/jewel case organization - I rename artists to , or ,The.  I do this by renaming the db entry, not the properties of the files w/in the album.  No problem in 7.2; however MJ8.0.237 updates all ID tags to the new name.  After changing 'The Eagles' to 'Eagles, The' Mj was of the opinion that all music in the database was by 'Eagles, The'. Correction is quite time consuming as all files are visited and corrected an album at a time.  Workaround is to update the artist name for the appropriate files vs. performing rename against db entry.
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RE:Renaming artist in DB results in unexpected consequences
« Reply #1 on: April 03, 2002, 11:37:49 am »
The database and file tags will stay synchronized by default.  Any change to one will change the other.  The only way to stop that is to turn off tag updating in Options -> General.

Take care.

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RE:Renaming artist in DB results in unexpected consequences
« Reply #2 on: April 03, 2002, 06:35:00 pm »
Understand. We may be misunderstanding one another.  I have 80 albums in the database, 'The Eagles' are the artist for one of them.  Under the 'Media Library' I went to the 'The Eagles' and renamed to 'Eagles, The'- I'd expect that the ID tags for 'Hotel California' would be updated to reflect 'Eagles, as artist, what happened though was all files, not only those associated w/'Hotel California' had their ID tags updated to reflect 'Eagles, The' as the artist.  Visiting each file and updating the artist ID tag to the correct artist is painful.

Occurred with 8.0.237 - afraid to re-attempt in 8.0.239.
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RE:Renaming artist in DB results in unexpected consequences
« Reply #3 on: April 03, 2002, 06:45:17 pm »
How are your files named? I don't mean the tags, I mean the actual filenames. If the filenames are all organized and they contain the Artist, then you can use File Properties to do them all at once.

For instance, if your files are named ARTIST-NAME, then you can load them all up into File Properties and choose Fill Properties from Filename, then choose ARTITS-NAME as the template, and MJ will do the rest.

Not sure why that would have happened, though. Are you sure you didn't accidentally have all of your files selected? I've never seen what you describe happen and I do a lot of tag editting.
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RE:Renaming artist in DB results in unexpected consequences
« Reply #4 on: April 04, 2002, 04:29:41 am »
I can't reproduce the quirkiness.

Could you disable tag updating in Options -> General, backup your library, and then play around and see if it happens again?

Please let me know if the latest build still doesn't work.

Thanks.

-Matt
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