by sickingm » Sat Mar 26, 2016 8:04 pm
I began looking at this thread thinking that I need multiple databases, but upon further consideration, maybe I'm seeking a solution that is more than I need. I think of my collection as two separate entities: one for music, one for audiobooks, and I have several dozen thousand tracks in each library. Using the Manage Collections capabilities works great for me, except for one thing: I'm a bit lazy.
See, when I rip an audiobook, we're probably talking about 12 cds of 15 or so tracks, each of which needs to be appropriately tagged. I've got the process down now to a fairly fast pace. But I can considerably reduce my typing time if I could enter the tag values for the audiobooks (artist, album title, album artist) faster - say, by simply entering the first letter of the tag value.
For instance, if I want to enter "Stephen King" into the artist field and if I have no other artists yet in the db beginning with the letter S, MM will complete the tag entry for me. (Of course, I did need to type the full artist name in the very first time.) But with all of those existing books and audiobooks in the library, I have lots of artists beginning with the letter S, so MM, trying to be helpful, suggests Sam & Dave, and Santana, and Sandra Brown and Sharyn McCrumb, and ... before also displaying Stephen King.
So is there any way just to empty the quick fill list of artists and albums? (My workaround has been to delete all entries in the database before ripping and then read them all back in (takes about 20 minutes) afterwards. This is why I thought having a separate dd would help. I'd keep everything in one huge db, but have a second, empty one, that I could use for ripping. I'd then delete those entries after ripping, and read the ripped fields into the master
I began looking at this thread thinking that I need multiple databases, but upon further consideration, maybe I'm seeking a solution that is more than I need. I think of my collection as two separate entities: one for music, one for audiobooks, and I have several dozen thousand tracks in each library. Using the Manage Collections capabilities works great for me, except for one thing: I'm a bit lazy.
See, when I rip an audiobook, we're probably talking about 12 cds of 15 or so tracks, each of which needs to be appropriately tagged. I've got the process down now to a fairly fast pace. But I can considerably reduce my typing time if I could enter the tag values for the audiobooks (artist, album title, album artist) faster - say, by simply entering the first letter of the tag value.
For instance, if I want to enter "Stephen King" into the artist field and if I have no other artists yet in the db beginning with the letter S, MM will complete the tag entry for me. (Of course, I did need to type the full artist name in the very first time.) But with all of those existing books and audiobooks in the library, I have lots of artists beginning with the letter S, so MM, trying to be helpful, suggests Sam & Dave, and Santana, and Sandra Brown and Sharyn McCrumb, and ... before also displaying Stephen King.
So is there any way just to empty the quick fill list of artists and albums? (My workaround has been to delete all entries in the database before ripping and then read them all back in (takes about 20 minutes) afterwards. This is why I thought having a separate dd would help. I'd keep everything in one huge db, but have a second, empty one, that I could use for ripping. I'd then delete those entries after ripping, and read the ripped fields into the master