A few weeks ago I attempted to alter artist names on a bunch of books.
I had a number of Sherlock Holmes books, the artist was either Sir Arthur Conan Doyle or Arthur Conan Doyle.
so I did a ctrl a ctrl c on all these books ( I thought).
Then I changed in properties the artist field into' Arthur Conan Doyle' .
after pressing the okay button I discovered I had actually selected hundreds of books.
MM was unresponsive so I had to let it finish.
I removed the Arthur Conan Doyle books from the list,picked 'Auto tag from filename" and when I came back all the books had their original artist names again.
( all foldernames are : \Artist\Album , so this mask ' <Skip><Album Artist>-<Album>\ ' gets me the correct book/ author)
Pffff problem solved!
Then I synced some books to my MP3 player and, low and behold, all albums/books where from Arthur Conan Doyle.
in Explorer and in Mp3bookhelper the artist on all the tracks where indeed Arthur Conan Doyle.
1. how can it be that when I a view track properties in MM I see a different artist compared to outside MM?
2. I'd like to know if there is a reasonably simple way to get the actual names in order again?
re-scanning these books is no option, too many books I did work on after importing, serialising, covers, book reviews in comments etc.
TIA
A few weeks ago I attempted to alter artist names on a bunch of books.
I had a number of Sherlock Holmes books, the artist was either Sir Arthur Conan Doyle or Arthur Conan Doyle.
so I did a ctrl a ctrl c on all these books ( I thought).
Then I changed in properties the artist field into' Arthur Conan Doyle' .
after pressing the okay button I discovered I had actually selected hundreds of books.
MM was unresponsive so I had to let it finish.
I removed the Arthur Conan Doyle books from the list,picked 'Auto tag from filename" and when I came back all the books had their original artist names again.
( all foldernames are : \Artist\Album , so this mask ' <Skip><Album Artist>-<Album>\ ' gets me the correct book/ author)
Pffff problem solved!
Then I synced some books to my MP3 player and, low and behold, all albums/books where from Arthur Conan Doyle.
in Explorer and in Mp3bookhelper the artist on all the tracks where indeed Arthur Conan Doyle.
1. how can it be that when I a view track properties in MM I see a different artist compared to outside MM?
2. I'd like to know if there is a reasonably simple way to get the actual names in order again?
re-scanning these books is no option, too many books I did work on after importing, serialising, covers, book reviews in comments etc.
TIA
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