by gordol » Mon Sep 27, 2021 10:21 pm
Confirm modifications to more than 50
This was off in MMW4. I did not touch this setting in MMW5, is it possible that the settings imported when I imported the database? It appears that my device sync settings were xferred over.
Re album art and artist images MM5 by default do not save anything into tags
I did not touch those settings in MMW5, I do not see similar, at least not in the same place, in MMW4. In any case, my preferred use is to store all of the info about the track in the media file itself whenever possible. That's what the ID3 tags are for, including the album art. And I consider all of my media to be "portable". Anything that is used generically by other apps belongs in the common location of the media file itself, not in any app's proprietary database. I currently have no immediate plans to switch to something else (I already tried, can't find anything else on Android), including back to an iPhone, but I will always leave that door open.
As for metadata lookup, only for missing art or lyrics. None of the albums have missing artwork, and the art item that is at the center of this would not have been found for any such lookup anyway as "Sheryl Crow, 100 Miles From Memphis" is not "ZZ Top, Tejas" or "The Benedictine Monks, Chant", or any of the other several hundred other albums so affected.
Please explain what you think it happened and how and we will try to help resolve all the issue.
To recap, I had been using MMW5 exclusively on my main desktop, the one I use to manage my media library and sync my music with my phone, for a couple weeks in the free trial period. It was working fine, then this happened.
Due to the video issue with MMW5 on the other computer, that one has been using MMW4 on its own database, using the common media library files which had been moved to my OneDrive prior to the installation of MMW5. Both computers are set to fully mirror my OneDrive, so all the media files in question are in fact on each local computer. That computer, though, almost never plays music as I could never get it to update the metadata of last-played back to the main setup so I use it for videos only.
What would really help right now is if there was some view I can't locate to let me see all the album art in a file without having to go into the Properties. (Art View only shows the first Art, though it appears that MMA shows the SECOND when there is more than one.)
[quote]Confirm modifications to more than 50[/quote]
This was off in MMW4. I did not touch this setting in MMW5, is it possible that the settings imported when I imported the database? It appears that my device sync settings were xferred over.
[quote]Re album art and artist images MM5 by default do not save anything into tags[/quote]
I did not touch those settings in MMW5, I do not see similar, at least not in the same place, in MMW4. In any case, my preferred use is to store all of the info about the track in the media file itself whenever possible. That's what the ID3 tags are for, including the album art. And I consider all of my media to be "portable". Anything that is used generically by other apps belongs in the common location of the media file itself, not in any app's proprietary database. I currently have no immediate plans to switch to something else (I already tried, can't find anything else on Android), including back to an iPhone, but I will always leave that door open.
As for metadata lookup, only for missing art or lyrics. None of the albums have missing artwork, and the art item that is at the center of this would not have been found for any such lookup anyway as "Sheryl Crow, 100 Miles From Memphis" is not "ZZ Top, Tejas" or "The Benedictine Monks, Chant", or any of the other several hundred other albums so affected.
[quote]Please explain what you think it happened and how and we will try to help resolve all the issue.[/quote]
To recap, I had been using MMW5 exclusively on my main desktop, the one I use to manage my media library and sync my music with my phone, for a couple weeks in the free trial period. It was working fine, then this happened.
Due to the video issue with MMW5 on the other computer, that one has been using MMW4 on its own database, using the common media library files which had been moved to my OneDrive prior to the installation of MMW5. Both computers are set to fully mirror my OneDrive, so all the media files in question are in fact on each local computer. That computer, though, almost never plays music as I could never get it to update the metadata of last-played back to the main setup so I use it for videos only.
What would really help right now is if there was some view I can't locate to let me see all the album art in a file without having to go into the Properties. (Art View only shows the first Art, though it appears that MMA shows the SECOND when there is more than one.)