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How to create playlists of local media files without relying on paths?
I'd like to create playlists of locally stored media files, and synchronize these playlists between my devices (desktop/laptop/phone.) However, there's one major point of friction: due to some changes ...
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Incorrect Album Artist and First Track in Plex
I ripped my parent’s Christmas CD collection as FLAC files with Windows Media Player. The first track of every album is just titled “Track 1” and the album artist of every album is “Various Artists”. ...
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Is there a way to spoof the date metadata on folders?
I have a collection of CreativeCommons music on a USB, that I used a digital TV to listen to, but its default media player is a bit limited. It offers only two list orders (data and alphabetic), which ...
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Remove MP3 Metadata from MP4 Files
I have a pretty large music collection that consists of MP4 audio files. There is a program that can play MP4 files, but it can only load MP3 files (go figure), so the entire collection has been ...
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Conditional statements in foobar2000 sort syntax
My music files are tagged with some custom tags, which for some reason aren't entirely standardized. This is probably due to some peculiarity with my MusicBrainz Picard set-up, but that is beside the ...
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Can I configure VLC to automatically organize my music library like iTunes does?
iTunes has the "keep iTunes music files organized" option, which automatically uses the metadata to sort the music files into folders organized by artist and album.
Is there any way to do this in VLC?...
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Moving iTunes tracks with all metadata
I would like to move some iTunes tracks out of my iTunes library and off my machine while preserving all the associated metadata in the process. I'm hoping to accomplish this in a way that things like ...
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Correcting disc number metadata and album titles in iTunes
I've got lots of CDs which were tagged and then imported into iTunes in the following format:
Cream Classics (disc 1)
Cream Classics (disc 2)
Cream Classics (disc 3)
What I would like to do is set ...
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Stripping metadata from MP3 files
Is there a way I can bulk strip mp3 meta data from files? Preferably from the command line on OS X or Linux?
I recently tried to use TuneUp (an app that is supposed to located mis-named tracks and ...
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How do I automate editing of metadata for a large number of music files?
I am disappointed with iTunes' support for organizing classical music. When listening on an iPod/iPhone/iHome device, it displays the artist, album and song title. I don't see an option to view ...
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Music tagging software more consistent than Tag&Rename?
A few years ago I spent an insane amount of time using the excellent Tag&Rename program. However, I find that for random, inexplicable reasons, some music tools simply disregard my tags, drop or ...
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Mac CD rippers and Metadata
I want to rip some of the old CDs into MP3. I know thats easy.
But, how can I also save myself from tedious step of adding the artist names and song name into teh ripper.
Itunes only shows data ...
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How can I batch-extract ID3 lyrics metadata from MP3 files?
I have a bunch of MP3 files (a few hundred) that have embedded lyrics. These lyrics show up when the files are played on an iPod touch, or in Windows Media Player with captions turned on.
What I'd ...
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