New Installation - control point can't see MinimServer

[DavidHB]

(09-08-2016 16:29)Glandwr Wrote:  What I'd really like to do is to extract all my metadata so I can see where there are inconsistences like 'and' and '&' or old plain typos. I'll head over to the Tagging forum and start there.

You can drive yourself nuts working on metadata lists like that. In MP3Tag, there are some clever tricks you can use without working from a separate list.

For example, you want a consistent composer name for Chopin (whose first name can be spelt in about half a dozen ways). Select the whole music folder, or if you have one, the Classical sub-folder, and wait for the grid to populate. Then set a filter (F3); in this case 'Composer HAS Chopin' would be a good filter, because the surname is usually spelt in the same way. This displays the set of tracks that have 'Chopin' in the composer name.

If you select the whole of this filtered set, you will find that the Composer value defaults to <Keep>. Alongside this value, there is a drop-down arrow, which, when clicked, displays a list of all of the Composer values used in the whole set. Just selecting the value you prefer and pressing Save sets your preferred value throughout the set in one action. All of this (depending on the number of files in the set) will often take less time than reading this description.

With sets constructed in any convenient way, you can also search and replace on any tag ('&' to 'and', for example). It all avoids trawling through separately constructed lists, which has to be good news.

David