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I'm brand new to songbird, and I have to say that the potential of this program is amazing! That being said, I'm having trouble getting started and getting my files to display in a way that I like, so right now I'm thinking of moving on to a different player. A quick search revealed no helpful instructions for my case, so here goes... If you want to skim my questions just look next to each numbered item.
All of my files are .wav format, so I don't use .mp3s or ID3 tags. This isn't up for discussion. I have 30,000+ .wav files of my CD collection, and I don't want to convert them, nor tag them. When I import them into Songbird, everything is lowercase, and the extension is displayed. The other posts that remedy this simply say to make sure you tag everything.
(1) I just want to be able to add my directories and have every filename display the way it is, without any changes, and just drop the .wav extension from the viewer.
(2) I don't want to add images to each album/track, I would like the images to simply display, as I have a separate folder for each CD, and several artwork scans in each folder. Programs like winamp have plugins that will scroll all the images that are in the folder that the current song is in, so each song that I click on I can have a nice scroll of related artwork. The key desires here are that I can have multiple images displayed, and that nothing is embedded, and that I don't have to manually do work for 30,000+ files that is program specific. (What if I have to format my computer? I really don't want to think about having to manually re-add associations for 30,000+ songs to have images.)
Sorry if I'm coming across negatively. I just have very specific desires and am rather obstinate when it comes to exceptions to my criteria.
I want the Rolls Royce of mp3 players, ok? :)
Thanks, guys. :)
Here's an example of what I've been doing with Winamp. I just add the hard drive (all music is on a separate hard drive), and everything displays correctly. Very quick and easy.
Notice the same song is playing, and another image is being displayed. There are 9 images associated with this particular promo CD.
All of my files are .wav format, so I don't use .mp3s or ID3 tags. This isn't up for discussion. I have 30,000+ .wav files of my CD collection, and I don't want to convert them, nor tag them. When I import them into Songbird, everything is lowercase, and the extension is displayed. The other posts that remedy this simply say to make sure you tag everything.
(1) I just want to be able to add my directories and have every filename display the way it is, without any changes, and just drop the .wav extension from the viewer.
(2) I don't want to add images to each album/track, I would like the images to simply display, as I have a separate folder for each CD, and several artwork scans in each folder. Programs like winamp have plugins that will scroll all the images that are in the folder that the current song is in, so each song that I click on I can have a nice scroll of related artwork. The key desires here are that I can have multiple images displayed, and that nothing is embedded, and that I don't have to manually do work for 30,000+ files that is program specific. (What if I have to format my computer? I really don't want to think about having to manually re-add associations for 30,000+ songs to have images.)
Sorry if I'm coming across negatively. I just have very specific desires and am rather obstinate when it comes to exceptions to my criteria.
I want the Rolls Royce of mp3 players, ok? :)
Thanks, guys. :)
Here's an example of what I've been doing with Winamp. I just add the hard drive (all music is on a separate hard drive), and everything displays correctly. Very quick and easy.
Notice the same song is playing, and another image is being displayed. There are 9 images associated with this particular promo CD.
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Inappropriate?Songbird has it own database that contains all tags plus artwork (single artwork file for the moment, sorry, not multiple).
What is displayed in the user interface comes from this database.
In addition to that, you can chose to write tags or not within the files themselves.
When importing your files, Songbird will try to fill in the tags in its database. As your file do not bear any of them, the filename in lowercase is taken for the title of the track in the database.
Ok?
So your job will be :
- either to remove yourself all file extensions from the Title tag in SB database (there is an add-on to do that: it will allow you to replace strings within the tags, for instance ".wav" by nothing)
- or to create all tags in SB database, based on the structure of your folders and the filenames. There is also a tool to do that, it is the same as above
This useful add-on is named Tagger, and it is here: http://addons.songbirdnest.com/addon/...
It is the best tagging Swiss knife we have in Songbird.
About the artwork, unfortunately only one file can be stored with each track in Songbird. To do that, you have to use the "Get Artwork" option on right-click, and configure it correctly in the options to have one of the files available in your folders taken into account. Check the "Artwork" entry in the options (SB 1.3 and above, for SB 1.2, there is an addon for that)
And last thing, as you want to keep your files and folders untouched, DO NOT activate the "Manage Media" or "Manage Files" feature :)
Hope all this helps.
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Inappropriate?Thank you!! :)
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