by paulonl » Thu Mar 28, 2024 10:04 am
@Broham
My workflow is that I download new tracks in MM where I set/correct artist, title, rating, genre and I use the Composer field to set some codes that I can then later use for intelligent playlists.
You can sort of sync these attributes because they (in theory!) are written to the track on disk. So when I import in RB, these will mostly get populated. But I still have tracks in RB with empty artist/title and there's no way I can make RB read the tags from the file.
But this causes a problem with FLAC files that RB does not import the rating, so this gets lost. Ratings that I set in RB are not written to the track. Then any updates to the tags in either program should again be written to the track on disk but this doesn't always work, neither in RB or MM. Updating/scanning the tracks in either program should in theory the update the tags from the file to the respective databases, but this also doesn't always work.
Playlists can be saved in either program and then imported in the other program. But this is cumbersome and requires many clicks in every program to save and import.
Altogether syncing this way is all but a reliable way of working.
What I do now is to update tracks in RB once I have imported them, hoping that these will be written to disk and that MM will refresh them when i scan a folder for updates (doesn't always work). This will still lead to inconsistencies, but there's not much that can be done about that without some development.
@Broham
My workflow is that I download new tracks in MM where I set/correct artist, title, rating, genre and I use the Composer field to set some codes that I can then later use for intelligent playlists.
You can sort of sync these attributes because they (in theory!) are written to the track on disk. So when I import in RB, these will mostly get populated. But I still have tracks in RB with empty artist/title and there's no way I can make RB read the tags from the file.
But this causes a problem with FLAC files that RB does not import the rating, so this gets lost. Ratings that I set in RB are not written to the track. Then any updates to the tags in either program should again be written to the track on disk but this doesn't always work, neither in RB or MM. Updating/scanning the tracks in either program should in theory the update the tags from the file to the respective databases, but this also doesn't always work.
Playlists can be saved in either program and then imported in the other program. But this is cumbersome and requires many clicks in every program to save and import.
Altogether syncing this way is all but a reliable way of working.
What I do now is to update tracks in RB once I have imported them, hoping that these will be written to disk and that MM will refresh them when i scan a folder for updates (doesn't always work). This will still lead to inconsistencies, but there's not much that can be done about that without some development.