Best way of marking a file to be edited

Jon Isaksson · Post by **Jon Isaksson** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 2:42 am

Hello,

As I go through my music database, i tend to come across songs/albums that I need to do things with.

It could be that the song has a quality problem or that the album art is wrong etc.
Often I dont have time to change it there and then, so wonder if people have come up with a good way marking files and then finding them again.

I was thinking of using one of the custom fields in the properties, but a little bit cumbersome, though might be the best option. Then create a magic node to find them again.

Any thoughts?

Cheers
Jon

robojock · Post by **robojock** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 3:01 am

you could use the custom field and maybe say "to edit" and afterwards create a autoplaylist that refers to that custom field.

drjboulder · Post by **drjboulder** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 3:11 am

When I got to the tail end of organizing my library and had about 60 problem tracks, ie.: bootlegs and things that I was having a hard time determining where the heck the song belonged. Because I wanted to re-Auto Organize and was tired of dealing with them, I just tagged them all as having the date 1901. Also changed the Album tag to Unknown - *Artist*.
Certainly not the most elegant solution. But, I can always find them. And when they Pop up during Auto DJ, I know they need work and, consequentially, have weeded down the number of my songs from the year 1901 as I just am playing with the Monkey.

Edit:
*Artist*
Filling with appropriate Artist.
IE.:
Album = Unknown Bowie

Macarena · Post by **Macarena** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 5:49 am

Jon Isaksson wrote:As I go through my music database, i tend to come across songs/albums that I need to do things with.

It could be that the song has a quality problem or that the album art is wrong etc.
Often I dont have time to change it there and then, so wonder if people have come up with a good way marking files and then finding them again.

I'm sending them in a separate playlist called "to fix". Usually on the weekend, I still remember what was the problem with the songs I have sent to the playlist.

nohitter151 · Post by **nohitter151** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 6:56 am

Agreed, with a playlist you can drag and drop or use right click, send to, playlist - probably much quicker than using a custom field.

Jon Isaksson · Post by **Jon Isaksson** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 7:23 am

Thank you guys for all the ideas.

I will have a play around and see which one suits me personally best

Teknojnky · Post by **Teknojnky** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 8:54 am

send to playlist, or send to a custom classification (ie quality > deleteme) work nicely

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