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nygamma asked a question in Songbird on June 23, 2009 23:15:

Tag editing

When I manage music tags, I like to be able to convert all letters in capitals. I have to either rewrite them or copy the text into a word processor, do the conversion there, and then copy back. Not ideal. I was wondering if there could be an easy way to do this at the click of the mouse or through a keyboard shortcut in Songbird.

Thank you.

nygamma replied on June 23, 2009 16:00 to the idea "Automatically organizing music library" in Songbird:

1. Compilations

I may have this completely the wrong way, but I don't understand what the problem with compilations is. I have many albums that are compilations. I put 'Various' in the album artist field, and then the album name, so they are all neatly organised by Songbird in a 'Various' folder (I personally use the year as a subfolder, and then the album title as a further subfolder). In fact, I think Songbird has a clear advantage here, because many other programmes do not use an 'album artist' field.

2. Ignored folders

I am running two Songbird profiles, so that I can have different options enabled for different music collections. This means that not all of my music is available under a single profile, but this is fine for my purposes.

A comment on the problem "Metadata window not fully showing." in Songbird:

I can confirm that this corrects the problem (but of course it's not an ideal solution, Lyric Master is a recommended add-on). Thank you. – nygamma, on April 11, 2009 10:47

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nygamma replied on March 25, 2009 10:51 to the question "Empty or 'Unknown' fields" in Songbird:

Thank you, I thought it would be helpful to have this show up somehow before editing the fields.

nygamma asked a question in Songbird on March 25, 2009 10:34:

Empty or 'Unknown' fields

Some of the tracks in my library do not have an artist (or other field). In the filter pane there should be an 'unknown artist' entry, or something like that, but there isn't. Anyone else having this problem?

nygamma replied on March 25, 2009 10:03 to the problem "Metadata window not fully showing." in Songbird:

I haven't done anything with the fonts, but I've had this problem from the start (SB 1.1 on Ubuntu 8.10).

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