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songbird reorganized my music and left out some albums
hi all,
I've been running Amarok in Linux for years; recently bought a Mac and switched to Songbird. I was horrified to see that all the hard work I put in organizing my music files exactly how I like them was fruitless, as Songbird had it's own evil ideas about how I might like my music sorted. For example, in my music folder I have an iron and wine folder, in which there are four or five albums. Songbird created two folders, one called Iron and Wine and another called Iron & Wine; it also changed my sensical "smith, elliott" into Elliott Smith and filed it in the bloody "E"s. Songbird also just straight ignored some albums in my files, which aren't showing up at all in the Songbird library.
I haven't been able to find a way to resort it or add in the lost files (read: drag and drop was a no-go), and am missing the days that Amarok would organize my music exactly how I had organized it in my files.
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I've been running Amarok in Linux for years; recently bought a Mac and switched to Songbird. I was horrified to see that all the hard work I put in organizing my music files exactly how I like them was fruitless, as Songbird had it's own evil ideas about how I might like my music sorted. For example, in my music folder I have an iron and wine folder, in which there are four or five albums. Songbird created two folders, one called Iron and Wine and another called Iron & Wine; it also changed my sensical "smith, elliott" into Elliott Smith and filed it in the bloody "E"s. Songbird also just straight ignored some albums in my files, which aren't showing up at all in the Songbird library.
I haven't been able to find a way to resort it or add in the lost files (read: drag and drop was a no-go), and am missing the days that Amarok would organize my music exactly how I had organized it in my files.
What's the what?
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Inappropriate?Songbird organizes its library based on the metadata (tags) contained in the files. It sounds like your collection has inconsistent or missing tags. I would use Songbird (or preferably a better tag-managing app, but I don't have any recommendations for a Mac) to clean up the tags in your music. For more information on how to edit tags in Songbird look here.
In your case you could probably just fill the tags based on the filenames and directory structure. I believe the Tagger addon will let you do this easily.
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Inappropriate?Thanks Mike. If I edit the tags in Songbird, do the tags on the actual files get rewritten, or does it only apply to Songbird? Any idea how I can fix the problem of Songbird refusing to import my media with missing tags? I can't add their tags in Songbird if I can't even get them there...
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If I edit the tags in Songbird, do the tags on the actual files get rewritten, or does it only apply to Songbird?
In general the tags on the actual files get rewritten, but there are specific file types and ways of adding tags for which this is not true.
Any idea how I can fix the problem of Songbird refusing to import my media with missing tags?
It should still import them; I don't know why it wouldn't. Are you sure you're not just having trouble finding them because they aren't tagged? Try clicking on "Library" at the top left and then sort by album. Songs without an album tag should be at the very bottom of the list (or very top if it was already sorted by album).
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