{"id":646,"date":"2020-10-19T15:53:22","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T19:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mediamonkey.com\/support\/?post_type=knowledgebase&#038;p=646"},"modified":"2024-12-04T18:05:06","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T22:05:06","slug":"metadata-is-guessed-incorrectly-during-scans","status":"publish","type":"knowledgebase","link":"https:\/\/www.mediamonkey.com\/support\/knowledge-base\/mediamonkey-tagging-organizing\/metadata-is-guessed-incorrectly-during-scans\/","title":{"rendered":"Metadata is Guessed Incorrectly During Scans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By default, MediaMonkey for Windows uses a set of rules to guess any file properties that are not defined in the tags from their folder\/filenames. You can disable this by disabling <em>Infer Properties<\/em> under <strong>Tools > Options > <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediamonkey.com\/wiki\/WebHelp:Adding_Existing_Files_to_the_Library#Setup_how_MediaMonkey_Scans_Files\">Library<\/a><\/strong> from the Main Menu. You can manually get tags from folder\/filenames by using <strong>Tools > <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediamonkey.com\/wiki\/index.php?title=WebHelp:Auto-Tag_from_Filename\">Tag from Filename<\/a><\/strong> (Auto-Tag from Filename in MediaMonkey 5 and older).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If MediaMonkey for Windows is regularly guessing track properties incorrectly, those rules can be easily changed. The rules MediaMonkey for Windows uses to infer properties are stored within the <em>[SongMasks]<\/em> section of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediamonkey.com\/support\/knowledge-base\/mediamonkey-install-config\/modifying-the-mediamonkey-db-and-ini-files\/\" data-type=\"knowledgebase\" data-id=\"412\">MediaMonkey.ini<\/a> file. To change these rules:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Close MediaMonkey for Windows (so that it doesn&#8217;t overwrite any of the changes)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Back up the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediamonkey.com\/support\/knowledge-base\/mediamonkey-install-config\/modifying-the-mediamonkey-db-and-ini-files\/\" data-type=\"knowledgebase\" data-id=\"412\">MediaMonkey.ini<\/a> file.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Open the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediamonkey.com\/support\/knowledge-base\/mediamonkey-install-config\/modifying-the-mediamonkey-db-and-ini-files\/\">MediaMonkey.ini<\/a> file inside a text editor such as notepad<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Edit, re-order, or delete the masks in the <em>[SongMasks]<\/em> section of the file. The variables are not documented anywhere, however, it&#8217;s fairly easy to figure out what they are by comparing masks in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediamonkey.com\/support\/knowledge-base\/mediamonkey-install-config\/modifying-the-mediamonkey-db-and-ini-files\/\">MediaMonkey.ini<\/a> file to those which appear in MediaMonkey for Windows. Some of the basic ones are:<br><em>%A<\/em>=Artist<br><em>%L<\/em>=Album<br><em>%T<\/em>=Track#<br><em>%S<\/em>=Title<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Save the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediamonkey.com\/support\/knowledge-base\/mediamonkey-install-config\/modifying-the-mediamonkey-db-and-ini-files\/\">MediaMonkey.ini<\/a> file.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Start MediaMonkey for Windows<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By default, MediaMonkey for Windows uses a set of rules to guess any file properties that are not defined in the tags from their folder\/filenames. You can disable this by disabling Infer Properties under Tools > Options > Library from the Main Menu. You can manually get tags from folder\/filenames by using Tools > Tag [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","knowledgebase_cat":[115],"knowledgebase_tag":[102,103],"class_list":["post-646","knowledgebase","type-knowledgebase","status-publish","hentry","knowledgebase_cat-mediamonkey-tagging-organizing","knowledgebase_tag-mmw4","knowledgebase_tag-mmw5"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediamonkey.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledgebase\/646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediamonkey.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledgebase"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediamonkey.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/knowledgebase"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediamonkey.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediamonkey.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediamonkey.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledgebase\/646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163557,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediamonkey.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledgebase\/646\/revisions\/163557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediamonkey.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"knowledgebase_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediamonkey.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledgebase_cat?post=646"},{"taxonomy":"knowledgebase_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediamonkey.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledgebase_tag?post=646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}