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Multiple Music Libraries is a “must-have”
The one thing I REALLY misses with iTunes / Winamp is a feature that would allow me to have at least 2 different Music libraries.
Example:
One Library for all my well sorted albums that I have a spend a lot of time on adding cover-art, edited all the tags and so on.
A Second Library for all my “single” tracks, which I don’t spend much time on sorting.
Right now I use iTunes for all my sorted albums, so I can use the cover flow feature on my media center. And then have all my unsorted mp3’s in Winamp / songbird. It is quite annoying working with 2 different player when making playlists. So if I could have 2 different music-libraries in songbird (at the same time) I would dump both winamp and iTunes.
(I know u can have different libraries in iTunes, but it requires you to restart iTunes every time you need to switch between libraries)
Example:
One Library for all my well sorted albums that I have a spend a lot of time on adding cover-art, edited all the tags and so on.
A Second Library for all my “single” tracks, which I don’t spend much time on sorting.
Right now I use iTunes for all my sorted albums, so I can use the cover flow feature on my media center. And then have all my unsorted mp3’s in Winamp / songbird. It is quite annoying working with 2 different player when making playlists. So if I could have 2 different music-libraries in songbird (at the same time) I would dump both winamp and iTunes.
(I know u can have different libraries in iTunes, but it requires you to restart iTunes every time you need to switch between libraries)
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For those having a "directory-oriented" way of classifying files, there might be a better solution than using multiple libraries. It consists in using smartlists in the following way. Imagine you store your rock full-albums in
../music/rock/full_albums/
Then you can create a smart playlist and use as selector "File-location". In the above mentioned example, you may impose two constraints : that the file location contains "rock" and "full_albums".
Then, every time you open this smartlist, it will scan your library and edit all the music stored in the folder ../music/rock/full_albums/ .
If you add a new rock-album into your folder, then you will first ask Songbird to scan your ../music/ so that it appears in your Library, and then it will automically be updated into your smartlist.
After having been using different libraries (modern, classical, albums, etc.), I find it much more convenient to have all my music in an unique library and to reproduce my directory-architecture using smartlists.
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Inappropriate?Im in exactly the same boat. Something along these lines would be extremely helpful for me. -
Inappropriate?How about copying your primary Songbird profile, and then changing the library in the second profile, and then picking a profile on startup?
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Inappropriate?Thats a bit like iTunes, but it wont satisfy my needs.
at times i want to make playlist containing songs from both my Albums Library and the Single track Library. and so on.
i Have found a temporary solution. adding all my tracks to the library and then creating 2 Smart playlists. BUT!
the ting is that when i set up the Coverflow on one of my playlist and go to the other and back, the coverflow view is gone.
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Inappropriate?this is literally the only thing keeping me from getting rid of itunes on my mac right now! i prefer to keep a small drive in my laptop, and keep most of my library (200GB+ of music, movies, tv shows) on an external drive. i keep a couple items locally so i'm not without entertainment when i don't have the drive, but with songbird it doesnt seem possible to do this. . . anyone have any suggestions?
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Inappropriate?For those having a "directory-oriented" way of classifying files, there might be a better solution than using multiple libraries. It consists in using smartlists in the following way. Imagine you store your rock full-albums in
../music/rock/full_albums/
Then you can create a smart playlist and use as selector "File-location". In the above mentioned example, you may impose two constraints : that the file location contains "rock" and "full_albums".
Then, every time you open this smartlist, it will scan your library and edit all the music stored in the folder ../music/rock/full_albums/ .
If you add a new rock-album into your folder, then you will first ask Songbird to scan your ../music/ so that it appears in your Library, and then it will automically be updated into your smartlist.
After having been using different libraries (modern, classical, albums, etc.), I find it much more convenient to have all my music in an unique library and to reproduce my directory-architecture using smartlists.
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Inappropriate?deccecos thanks man, great idea, i didnt know the power behind smart playlists, they should have a power tips page or something like that with this kind of advice, I almost return to foobar, which its awesome but I always feel the need to be meesing around with it and that takes a lot of my time :P cheers
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Inappropriate?I am glad you find it useful. By the way, I noted that in order to avoid possible conflicts with files name (for instance if a song somewhere else contains the word "rock"), it might be a good idea to keep the "/" in the file name location. In my previous example, it is sufficient to ask that the file location contains
/rock/full_albums/
Then, one can be sure that only the files of this folder will be inserted in the smartlist.
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Inappropriate?Well, I allready posted that solution 4 month ago.
And it still doesnt solve the coverflow problem does it?
As far as i know you cant have coverflow's on a Smartlist!!
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Inappropriate?yes, you are right!!
The problem came up with one of the earlier versions of Songbird.
I see it has been fixed, now you can have CoverFlow on a Smartlists permanently, that wasn't the case when this topic was created :)
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