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More => Old Versions => Media Center 11 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: gappie on August 22, 2006, 10:30:43 am

Title: Two small Questions.
Post by: gappie on August 22, 2006, 10:30:43 am: 1 when i have a custom field in the database, list (semicolon delimited), is it possible to use "show alphabet" in the upper view?

2 how can i copy a lot of data from one database fied to an other?

thanks for reading

gab
Title: Re: Two small Questions.
Post by: zirum on August 22, 2006, 10:38:11 am: 1. Dunno

2. press "Tools" / "Library Tools" / "Move / Copy Fields"

Hope this helps a bit... :)
Title: Re: Two small Questions.
Post by: gappie on August 22, 2006, 10:40:37 am: Quote from: zirum on August 22, 2006, 10:38:11 am
1. Dunno

2. press "Tools" / "Library Tools" / "Move / Copy Fields"

Hope this helps a bit... :)

ah, thats easy... thanks a lot. :)
Title: Re: Two small Questions.
Post by: gappie on August 22, 2006, 10:48:45 am: that worked nicely, and made it possible to answer my first question myself. yes. apparantly there need to be enough different information before the alphabet shows up. 8)
Title: Re: Two small Questions.
Post by: zirum on August 22, 2006, 11:00:35 am: That's good. I had'nt used the alphabet untill I tested it now actually. Thanks for the reminder ;)
Title: Re: Two small Questions.
Post by: Two Wire on August 22, 2006, 09:41:05 pm: Whish I had been aware of this earlier. Would have saved me hours of time. Any quick way to fill in missing Bios fields (same artist) without doing a copy/paste?
Title: Re: Two small Questions.
Post by: benn600 on August 23, 2006, 07:58:46 am: Just make a playlist of all the tracks you want to set as a certain artist. Then open track info and either select none or all (same thing) and enter your artist once. All tracks shown will update to the artist you entered. Does this help?
Title: Re: Two small Questions.
Post by: Two Wire on August 23, 2006, 01:55:44 pm: Thanks benn600. I figured it out.
Title: Re: Two small Questions.
Post by: gappie on August 23, 2006, 04:33:55 pm: thanks benn. i knew that one. the problem was getting 800 different artists from one field to an other. the solution was already given by mr zirum.