by NWDreamer » Wed Jul 15, 2015 7:33 pm
I'm finally starting to mass load music into MM again so I created a folder to put new music in and set MM to monitor that folder. I have a simple method to help determine what the newly imported music is (so I can completely prepare it the way I like before it gets lost with all the rest of the tracks). I use one of the custom tag fields and call it "Reviewed" then I have an auto-playlist for unreviewed tracks where the criteria is simply '"Reviewed" is unknown'. Since this isn't a pre-existing tag, it should always be unknown during the initial import and, therefore, should show up in the "Unreviewed" auto-playlist.
Well, last night I copied 60 artists with 75 albums to the new import folder (parent folder with artist names, child folders for each album which only contain 320 kbps .mp3 files and a folder.jpg for the cover image). Then I started up MM, hit <INS> and selected just the import folder. 57 of the 60 artists along with all their albums showed up in the Unreviewed auto-playlist. The other three I was able to find in the "Entire Library" along with their seven albums. Selecting these three and checking the Reviewed field showed that is was empty (null). So all I did was click on the Reviewed field checkbox (without doing anything with the field itself) and hit Ok, then went back to the Unreviewed auto-playlist and hit <F5> to refresh it. All three showed up.
In this particular case, it only cost me a little extra time once I realized there were artists missing, but I really count on this technique for those strange .mp3's where the tags are completely messed up and tracks could be created with any bizarre names for the artist, album or songs. Even before this current push to add more music, I already have a LOT of tracks so it's not easy at all to visually look through tens of thousands of tracks for a few weird ones (I should have over 300,000 tracks by the end of this import stage).
Any idea why this behavior is happening or, even more importantly, how to prevent it from occurring?
Thanks,
Craig
P.S., Almost forgot! For my purposes, the "Recently Added" auto-playlist doesn't really work for my purposes, and at least one of the missing artists didn't show up there until I selected the checkbox and hit OK. I didn't think to check the other two.
I'm finally starting to mass load music into MM again so I created a folder to put new music in and set MM to monitor that folder. I have a simple method to help determine what the newly imported music is (so I can completely prepare it the way I like before it gets lost with all the rest of the tracks). I use one of the custom tag fields and call it "Reviewed" then I have an auto-playlist for unreviewed tracks where the criteria is simply '"Reviewed" is unknown'. Since this isn't a pre-existing tag, it should always be unknown during the initial import and, therefore, should show up in the "Unreviewed" auto-playlist.
Well, last night I copied 60 artists with 75 albums to the new import folder (parent folder with artist names, child folders for each album which only contain 320 kbps .mp3 files and a folder.jpg for the cover image). Then I started up MM, hit <INS> and selected just the import folder. 57 of the 60 artists along with all their albums showed up in the Unreviewed auto-playlist. The other three I was able to find in the "Entire Library" along with their seven albums. Selecting these three and checking the Reviewed field showed that is was empty (null). So all I did was click on the Reviewed field checkbox (without doing anything with the field itself) and hit Ok, then went back to the Unreviewed auto-playlist and hit <F5> to refresh it. All three showed up.
In this particular case, it only cost me a little extra time once I realized there were artists missing, but I really count on this technique for those strange .mp3's where the tags are completely messed up and tracks could be created with any bizarre names for the artist, album or songs. Even before this current push to add more music, I already have a LOT of tracks so it's not easy at all to visually look through tens of thousands of tracks for a few weird ones (I should have over 300,000 tracks by the end of this import stage).
Any idea why this behavior is happening or, even more importantly, how to prevent it from occurring?
Thanks,
Craig
P.S., Almost forgot! For my purposes, the "Recently Added" auto-playlist doesn't really work for my purposes, and at least one of the missing artists didn't show up there until I selected the checkbox and hit OK. I didn't think to check the other two.