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[rbbert]

I have a trial version of MC18.  I have about 1.5 TB of FLAC files on a hard drive which is where I have told MC18 to look for files for my Main Library.  These files are from a number of sources, including CD's ripped with EAC and dBPoweramp, files downloaded from commercial sites such as HDTracks, livedownloads.com, Channelclassics.com, etc., and unreleased music (radio broadcasts, etc).  A good part of it MC18 doesn't recognize at all.  Much of what is recognized is hard to find; for example I have 4 Mahler symphonies from HDTracks and Channel Classics, all by Adam Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra.  2 are catalogued under "Budapest Festival Orchestra", one under "Adam Fischer", one under "Gustav Mahler".

I guess I can import the music not automatically recognized and imported by going to each folder in Windows Explorer and manually importing; is there a quicker way?   And is there an easy way to fix the cataloging problem with the Mahler (and other classical music)?

[JimH]

Welcome.  You can edit the tags to make files show up where you want them to.

MC will import whatever you tell it to.  Check your settings in Tools/Import/Autoimport.  You can add or edit directories you want MC to watch.

[rbbert]

Autoimport is set to watch the folders where the audio (FLAC files) is; for some reason it is not importing some of them.  And from your answer do I assume that I will have to manually retail each file (apparently several  thousand at this point) which isn't catalogued in a consistent manner?