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garcia232

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How to manage a very large music collection
« on: January 20, 2014, 09:54:18 am »

I have just recently downloaded the trial version to see if this would work to manage my music library of around 350gigs.  The issue that I am having is that a large amount of my music are live shows that do not have any metadata/tags on them.  When I add them they get put into an unknown folder.  I want to know if there is a way to set up the import so it keeps everything in the same folder structure I have in windows regardless of the tags it finds or does not find.

Any help on this would be great.
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Re: How to manage a very large music collection
« Reply #1 on: January 20, 2014, 12:46:12 pm »

Create a new view based on File Path.  See:

   http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=79265.msg538501#msg538501

What type of live shows are these - do they have metadata in sidecar files?
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garcia232

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Re: How to manage a very large music collection
« Reply #2 on: January 20, 2014, 01:33:16 pm »

Thanks for the reply MrC.

I have metadata for most files I have but there is a portion without any.  I started this collection about ten years ago so I've just used file structure to keep it in check since then. Every program I have tried to import my library to just puts it all over the place and it turns into a mess.   Ill try the info you shared and see if it works for me.

Thanks again
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Re: How to manage a very large music collection
« Reply #3 on: January 20, 2014, 01:35:20 pm »

Great.

See if the tool Library Tools > Fill Properties From Filename helps also.
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