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More => Old Versions => JRiver Media Center 19 for Windows => Topic started by: amham on June 24, 2014, 07:56:39 pm

Title: Import Remastered Album?
Post by: amham on June 24, 2014, 07:56:39 pm

For whatever reason I do not find MC19 intuitive.  Having said that, I want to import a new REMASTERED album I downloaded from HDTracks.  The original album already exists (44.1k/16bits) so when I import MC19 places the new tracks (96k/24bits) under the existing album/cover, duplicating all songs.  Now I have duplicates of each song, different bit rates and depths.  I want to create a separate Album/cover under the same artist listing and title only labeled REMASTERED.  I cannot figure out how to do this, anyone help?  Many thanks!

Title: Re: Import Remastered Album?
Post by: JimH on June 24, 2014, 08:01:10 pm

You could change the Album tag.

Title: Re: Import Remastered Album?
Post by: amham on June 24, 2014, 08:22:12 pm

Quote from: JimH on June 24, 2014, 08:01:10 pm

You could change the Album tag.

Of course, simple...that did it.  I must remember to restart.  Elementary to most but for me, my mindset is Windows and how it moves, copies, creates, etc.  Thank you for the support.

Title: Re: Import Remastered Album?
Post by: spiggytopes on June 24, 2014, 09:37:58 pm

What I did was to create a new folder

"Beatles 24 Bit"

Hoping eventually to delete the 16 Bit!

Title: Re: Import Remastered Album?
Post by: 6233638 on June 25, 2014, 12:52:11 am

The great thing about Media Center and the Expression Language (http://) is that you can get it to do the work for you.
Of course, the simplest solution is to just rename the album, especially if you only have one or two to deal with.


Instead of doing that, you could add a custom group type which would separate the albums automatically.

• Tools → Options → Library & Folders → Manage Library Fields
• Add New Field
• Calculated Data → Expression → Expression Editor:

Code: (Custom Group) [Select]

<font size="10" alpha="0" color="ffffff">[Year]  [Channels] [Sample Rate,0] [Bit Depth,0] <//font>Delimit([Year],/]/ ,/[)[Album]If(IsEqual([File Type,0], sacd, 1),/ SACD,
If(Compare([Sample Rate,0], >, 44100),/ HD,
))Delimit(if(isrange([Channels],1-2),,/ ‒/ Multichannel))

 
Now click the tab at the top of your view and select Group By → Your Custom Group
 
The nice thing about this is that it will automatically separate albums based on the year tag, the number of channels, sample rate or bit-depth.
It will also append "SACD", "HD", or " – Multichannel" to the album name if appropriate.