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Hello all
This is not a disaster call.
I have a copy of my whole music partition on an external HD (albeit a few weeks out of date). So, if needs be, I can simply copy the whole thing back onto my HD. I'm just curious to find out what I've done wrong and what I should have done instead.
Let's start at the beginning.
I organize my music collection (very original this) in "\music\artist\album\number-track" where "number" is part of the filename I assign. In some cases I don't bother with the "album" directory and put the tracks directly in the "artist" directory.
Often, when trying to edit tags in dbpa's MusicCollection, I was not able to overwrite or delete, for example, the "album" entry. I would want to do this, for example, if I had ripped tracks from a "The best of xxx". and wanted to enter the real source or none at all and leave this column empty.
Presumably the tag would prevent me doing this and the "album" entry would simply revert to "The best of xxx".
So - and her comes the embarassing bit - I started playing about with a tag editor I downloaded - and I failed to heed the "look before you leap" advice.
I now seem to have deleted or corrupted the tags for every single track.
When I opened dbpa's MusicCollection it couldn't locate anything.
When I asked it to arrange tracks, it did so - but not as I had hoped.
The tracks are all there still but instead of being neatly organized in my folder system "\music\artist\album\number-track" they are all listed in the "\music" root folder, artist and album have disappeared altogether, and each track is preceded by 00 and a space.
Presumably there's no way back !
Have I removed all the tags ?
What I'd like to do in future is to have just the very simplest form of tag, without all the clutter of "genre", "gold star for special favorites", "album cover", etc. and have just "artist", "album" "track" corresponding to my file system.
Best regards to all and thanks in advance for any tips
Raymond Russell
This is not a disaster call.
I have a copy of my whole music partition on an external HD (albeit a few weeks out of date). So, if needs be, I can simply copy the whole thing back onto my HD. I'm just curious to find out what I've done wrong and what I should have done instead.
Let's start at the beginning.
I organize my music collection (very original this) in "\music\artist\album\number-track" where "number" is part of the filename I assign. In some cases I don't bother with the "album" directory and put the tracks directly in the "artist" directory.
Often, when trying to edit tags in dbpa's MusicCollection, I was not able to overwrite or delete, for example, the "album" entry. I would want to do this, for example, if I had ripped tracks from a "The best of xxx". and wanted to enter the real source or none at all and leave this column empty.
Presumably the tag would prevent me doing this and the "album" entry would simply revert to "The best of xxx".
So - and her comes the embarassing bit - I started playing about with a tag editor I downloaded - and I failed to heed the "look before you leap" advice.
I now seem to have deleted or corrupted the tags for every single track.
When I opened dbpa's MusicCollection it couldn't locate anything.
When I asked it to arrange tracks, it did so - but not as I had hoped.
The tracks are all there still but instead of being neatly organized in my folder system "\music\artist\album\number-track" they are all listed in the "\music" root folder, artist and album have disappeared altogether, and each track is preceded by 00 and a space.
Presumably there's no way back !
Have I removed all the tags ?
What I'd like to do in future is to have just the very simplest form of tag, without all the clutter of "genre", "gold star for special favorites", "album cover", etc. and have just "artist", "album" "track" corresponding to my file system.
Best regards to all and thanks in advance for any tips
Raymond Russell
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