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Naegling replied on June 24, 2009 09:17 to the question "Editing metadata in Songbird" in Songbird:

cheers mate musicbrainz looks promising. Its also heartening to know that the metadata is getting written back to the file itself.
Many thanks!

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Naegling asked a question in Songbird on June 24, 2009 06:39:

Editing metadata in Songbird
Hi,

I have recently decided to make it my mission to edit and correct metadata and album art for my entire 100gb library (Don't ask why... ). While I realise songbird has an automatic system for both - gathering metadata information and album art, it isn't always correct. Something I noticed was that the metadata being collected by songbird does something weird: it puts a "different" artist under Album artist compared to artist. What I mean is:

Artist: Rage Against The Machine
Album: The Battle of Los Angeles
Album Artist: Rage Against the Machine

Notice the third word: 'The' in artist and 'the' in Album Artist. While this may seem to be something small, it means that every song which has a different Album Artist to Artist is listed with an album picture in Media Flow. Meaning, two songs from the same album are displayed under the same album name but each with a separate Album picture to its name in Media Flow.

Ex:

So my question is this: In my quest to edit and complete my entire Library's metadata, is there and easier way of doing it than editing the metadata to ensure Album Artist = Artist?
If not, can anyone tell me whether, when I am doing it the hard way, editing the metadata is getting written back to the file? That is, if I then transfer that file to a different Login/Profile/PC will I have to edit the metadata all over again or is it something that gets recorded to the file?

Cheers!
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meh in some ways it was worth it :) Not to mention reinstalling add-ons made me realise which ones I was actually using lol – Naegling, on June 23, 2009 03:25
Naegling replied on June 22, 2009 03:59 to the problem "Cannot access the web through songbird" in Songbird:

hey lenny

Just tried it out - thanks a lot for your help mate. For whatever reason, a new profile seems to have fixed both crashes and web browsing issues - ill make it a point to post this up on the bug page as well.

The only down point of course is installing all add-ons etc again but that a small price to pay for the genius that is songbird :)

Cheers dude

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Naegling replied on June 22, 2009 03:59 to the question "songbird 1.2 crashes in Microsoft XP" in Songbird:

hey lenny

Just tried it out - thanks a lot for your help mate. For whatever reason, a new profile seems to have fixed both crashes and web browsing issues - ill make it a point to post this up on the bug page as well.

The only down point of course is installing all add-ons etc again but that a small price to pay for the genius that is songbird :)

Cheers dude

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Stevo's reply to "Managed Mode: What the h*ll did your software just do to my library?" was just promoted to the most useful! Naegling and 3 other people think it's one of the best replies.

First off thank you all for your responses here, I was one of the main developers of this feature and I appreciate getting feed back on it.

As for the UI issues, yes we do lack in documentation and this is something I will be bringing up with the product managers. We are given a limited amount of time to do what they require, documentation has never had time allocated for it. This is a major oversight on our part and I apologize for my lack of attention.

As for the feature itself there are a few things we assumed when building it, number one we did not enable it by default. If you are enabling a feature you do not understand I would assume that you would ask about it first. However it looks like for some people this is not the case and they have enabled it anyways. We also tried to follow along the same flow that iTunes does when it organizes music, this includes copying from external folder only (not moving) to prevent loss of media. This is why when a user selects a different folder than where there media is currently located they get a complete copy of the media. When items are renamed or the folder is the same as where the media is located then we move items around in that folder, which is why you will see all of your media reorganized since it is based on the meta data tags.

In any case this is a new feature which as any other new feature should be used with caution, we try to test our features out as best we can, and we have beta versions that allow other users to test as well (understanding that they may loose information). Unfortunately we can not catch every bug or different users perspective.

There has been an excellent community effort to document how Songbird works on our wiki: http://wiki.songbirdnest.com/Getting_.... I recommend this to everyone using songbird now or in the future.

Thank you again for your response, and if you have any more questions or issues please post here so we can make Songbird the best media player out there :).
Naegling replied on June 21, 2009 14:57 to the question "songbird 1.2 crashes in Microsoft XP" in Songbird:

nvm i figured it out thanx

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Naegling replied on June 21, 2009 14:57 to the question "songbird 1.2 crashes in Microsoft XP" in Songbird:

drop it in the playlist? what do u mean?

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Naegling replied on June 21, 2009 14:42 to the question "songbird 1.2 crashes in Microsoft XP" in Songbird:

hi lenny,
Ive tried all possible ways of dragging and dropping lol.
i exited songbird, drageed the .xpi file onto the songbird icon - this opened up songbird automatically but it didnt have any option there to enable profile manager

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Naegling replied on June 21, 2009 14:14 to the question "songbird 1.2 crashes in Microsoft XP" in Songbird:

hey lenny. doh' i cant download it because of the web browsing problem - do i just download it in a normal web browser? then what?
cheers
nae

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Naegling replied on June 21, 2009 14:13 to the problem "Cannot access the web through songbird" in Songbird:

hey lenny. doh' i cant download it because of the web browsing problem - do i just download it in a normal web browser? then what?
cheers
nae

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Naegling replied on June 21, 2009 14:11 to the question "songbird 1.2 crashes in Microsoft XP" in Songbird:

I spoke too soon... its crashing again. Yeah Lenny I think Ill take your advice and go ahead and create a new profile - on that note could you instruct me on how to use profile manager?

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Naegling replied on June 21, 2009 14:06 to the idea "Songbird user public profile page" in Songbird:

awesome idea dude. this looks like it might take iGoogle by storm!

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Naegling replied on June 21, 2009 14:02 to the question "songbird 1.2 crashes in Microsoft XP" in Songbird:

umm this mite seem silly but is this what u type in cmd window?
"cd C:\Program Files\Songbird\songbird -ProfileManager &"

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Naegling replied on June 21, 2009 14:01 to the problem "Cannot access the web through songbird" in Songbird:

umm this mite seem silly but is this what u type in cmd window?
"cd C:\Program Files\Songbird\songbird -ProfileManager &"

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