2025-01-23, 04:13 PM
I’m having similar troubles, but I think I’m working through it okay.
I essentially pointed my Music library to the big music folder and let it scan. The only problems I’ve had are (1) my artist folders having a dumb name “Beatles, The” and (2) the duplicate artist thing.
I removed the Music (or pointed the library nowhere) and corrected the names in the artist folders. The duplicates or near-duplicate artists were largely due to songs having multiple artists. There were manually homogenized with Picard.
Imagine I have David Bowie, and then David Bowie & Stevie Ray Vaughan. To me the artist is Bowie and I tag it accordingly. It may not match the artist ID in MusicBrainz.com, but do I really care? This is a tedious process, but I think it’s required for many albums & artists.
I also have “Never” selected for the library update, because my data has been edited for me and the online databases will kill those edits. In addition, when a release is not found on MusicBrainz it needs to be edited manually.
You may also make some headway with the artist folders in the metadata directory. Once the right artist is fixed, you can trash the unnecessary ones. Alternatively you can delete all the artist metadata and start fresh.
Is my logic correct here?
I essentially pointed my Music library to the big music folder and let it scan. The only problems I’ve had are (1) my artist folders having a dumb name “Beatles, The” and (2) the duplicate artist thing.
I removed the Music (or pointed the library nowhere) and corrected the names in the artist folders. The duplicates or near-duplicate artists were largely due to songs having multiple artists. There were manually homogenized with Picard.
Imagine I have David Bowie, and then David Bowie & Stevie Ray Vaughan. To me the artist is Bowie and I tag it accordingly. It may not match the artist ID in MusicBrainz.com, but do I really care? This is a tedious process, but I think it’s required for many albums & artists.
I also have “Never” selected for the library update, because my data has been edited for me and the online databases will kill those edits. In addition, when a release is not found on MusicBrainz it needs to be edited manually.
You may also make some headway with the artist folders in the metadata directory. Once the right artist is fixed, you can trash the unnecessary ones. Alternatively you can delete all the artist metadata and start fresh.
Is my logic correct here?