Music folder setup

[Albert Hawking]

I'm using the iTunes folder locations.

MyMUSIC
......ARTIST
............ALBUM
..................TRACK# TRACK NAME.MP3
..................TRACK# TRACK NAME.MP3
............ALBUM
..................TRACK# TRACK NAME.MP3
......ARTIST

In SageTV5 selecting the folder MyMUSIC for music import does not get the data into SageTV5. correctly.

How does SageTV5 want the folder set up?

Where is this data stored and is it user readable?

Is there an easier way to do this like different player software? M$ Media Player is useless.

My asked for information is not in the PDF and has been asked before on this forum and not answered.

iTunes has terrible sound when playing MP3's.

[Polypro]

That sounds like it should work. My music folder (.wma only) is D:\Music\WMA\Artist\Album-s\Song-s. I add D:\Music as an import Directory and tell Sage to only look for music. Everything shows up fine. Sage derives the info strictly from the ID3 tags, so make sure they are all perfect. I use a folder.jpg in each album folder for cover art, but Sage will also respect art in the ID3 tag. What exactly are you seeing in Sage when you import your music?

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Best tagger I've used: http://www.mp3tag.de/en/

[Albert Hawking]

I used your suggested ID3 tag editor.
I checked several songs from several artists and albums.
All of the fields in the ID3 tag editor were filled in except "Comment".
The list on the right of (Filename, Path, Title, Artist, Album, Track, Year, Genre ...) is correct.
Codec is MPEG1 Layer III
They were all changed to .MP3 by iTunes from the origional CD.

I added the top folder of my music to Sage as "Music".
I clicked on "Refresh Imported Media".

This is what I have in "Media Center" - "Music".

"Artists":
Two (2) boxes
1. A blank box with all of my music tracks in it in Artist order.
EXAMPLE: (585. Pink Floyd/Dark Side Of The Moon/07 Any ...)

2. A box with one (1) correct artist with the correct tracks in it.


"Album":
One (1) box with the correct Album for for "Artists" item 2 above.


"Song Titles"
A list of all of my music tracks as Artist/Album/Track# Song Title - in Artist order
EXAMPLE: (585. Pink Floyd/Dark Side Of The Moon/07 Any ...)


"Sort by Title" and "Sort by Artist" have no effect.


"Search" works.

After a search, "Previous Album" and "Next Album" show "Artists" item 2 above.
Then they have no effect.


I saw no field for "Art Work"
The only difference between the Album that worked is a long list of base 16 codes in "Comment"


By the way, SageTV5 with the ir unit is a wonderful piece of software.

[Albert Hawking]

I copied everything from the iTunes directory to another directory.
I ran your suggested tag editor on the whole new directory.
Put that into SageTV5 and everything works perfectly.

Many thanks for your help.

You told and gave me just what I needed.

I hope you see this.
I don't know how to get a message directly to you.
I'll try.

[Polypro]

Thanks, got the PM. Just wait til you get help from the guy's that *really* know what their doing

P

[LaoK]

Originally Posted by Albert Hawking

I copied everything from the iTunes directory to another directory.
I ran your suggested tag editor on the whole new directory.
Put that into SageTV5 and everything works perfectly.

I've been trying out STV 5 for music, and I have the same problem using my iTunes library. Only 3 of my 250+ albums are recognized as albums, though the STV music interface can see and play all the songs individually. And as you noted, the ones that work have some hexadecimal code in the ID3 "Comments" tag. Where that stuff came from, I have no idea.

The music interface clearly needs more work.

[bbroerman]

Hi,

I'm running the latest SageTV v 6 and am having a similar issue. My music was ripped by AudioGrabber, and I've used WinAmp to edit most of the tag info to clean them up for that app...

BUT... SageTV does not want to accept the Artist and Album information on many of the songs, even though they show up perfectly in WinAmp.

Any suggestions?