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More => Old Versions => JRiver Media Center 19 for Windows => Topic started by: hvdh on December 30, 2013, 10:54:48 am
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I've been playing with the different views in MC18 for a while (sorry, haven't upgraded to 19 yet) and I've noticed something rather strange.
In the standard "albums" view I can show the track listing for a certain album, and all the genres show up correct, as they are defined in the tags.
The problem lies in the genres:
pop; rock
rock; modern
classical; modern
etc.
Whenever there is a ";" in the genre, the genre is not represented correctly in the standard "genres" view.
Instead of Genres
pop; rock
rock; modern
classical; modern
I have genres
modern
rock
Files are listed accordingly, so now my "rock; modern" albums and "classical; modern" albums are all shown in the "modern" genre.
Hope you can fix this for me:)
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Pop; Rock denotes that it will be in both Pop and Rock.
Pop\Rock denotes that it should be in Pop, and Rock as a subgenre below pop, which I think is what you're trying to achieve.
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No, this is not what I want...
But I can see it's not going to be changed so that I get what I want.
I guess I'll just have to change my genre from "classical; modern" to classical - modern"
Bummer....
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Not really a bummer actually; more like a great feature. Genre is a list field so the semicolon separator allows you to include a song, movie, etc under multiple genre views. It is by design. See more: http://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/File_Properties_%28tags%29
If your library is already tagged with Genres separated by semicolons, you can use Find and Replace to change them to another separator quickly and easily. Right click -> Library Tools -> Find and Replace -> Check None -> Click on Genre. Find what: ";" Replace: " -" (the quotation marks are not used; just wanted to show you that you could add a space so it is automatically inserted). You could also just use a comma.
You can do this to one file or many at a time. You may want to test it on a small batch first to make sure it is doing what you want.
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As before, you could use Classical\Modern to have a subgenre of Classical with your Modern Classical music, or as suggested above, Find & Replace should be able to change Classical; Modern to Classical - Modern
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Unfortunately, changing the genre "pop; rock" into "pop - rock" in my case entails renaming the whole genre subdirectory.
Which in itself is not a big deal, and easily done. updating all tags is also easy.
I manage my tags outside of MC, I have a small program that updates tags using only file/directory structure as input.
I do not (want to) store ratings in the tags, because I share the same music collection with a few friends, and they obviously have their own ratings.
Changing the directory name leaves me with a "new" genre, with all new files (at least to MC18). Which means I lose all my ratings, because these are (presumably) stored in the library.
Any solution to this?
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Do the rename inside Media Center's Rename, Move, & Copy Files… tool
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You can modify a view to dynamically transform your genre separators into the needed by MC for lists.