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More => Old Versions => JRiver Media Center 30 for Mac => Topic started by: Shandit66 on January 26, 2023, 08:03:17 am
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I'm new to MediCenter, so apologies if these are dumb questions - I did try to find answers in past posts.
In the past, I maintained all my music on a big PC, using MediaMonkey - which I was a huge fan off.
But the PC is being retired, as I go all Mac.
Finding a music player comperable to MediaMonkey has been a challenge, but MC seems to be very close.
So....
I have a large collection (~300gb) from when I ripped all my CDs
These are stored on a 2012 Mac Pro, RAID 1 - which is my household music server, connected to my other macs.
When I ripped all my CDs I used MediaMonkey, which has some excellent features for managing the meta tags:
- drag & drop a file to a new genre and it updates the genre tags,
- I can select multiple files and do that same, hence update the tagging in batches
or
- select many files, right click to get a dialog box, where i could manually edit tags, in a batch
- I had set up rules, to have the program arrange my files, on the drive in a clean structure, when I changed tags, automatically
The advantage is that if I use a different music program, the whole structure is nice and clean.
Questions
1 - MC seems to have some of the same features, but so far I have not figured out how to that.
2 - is there a way to set up rules for how the files are organized on the server? ex:
Genre/Artist/album/song name
Thanks for the help
Olaf
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You should be able to learn how from the wiki. Start with Tagging. There's on option to tag on import. Read about the tool called Rename, Move, and Copy.