WebHelp:Getting Track Information from the Internet/4.0 - Revision history

Lowlander at 19:45, 18 April 2019

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	== Lookup Track Information/Album Art from the Web ==		== Lookup Track Information/Album Art from the Web ==

	If you have tracks that are missing information or Album Art, you can lookup and import the missing information by clicking '''Tools''' > '''Auto-Tag from Web'''. By default, this will return Albums from Amazon that contain the Artist, Album, and Title information in your tracks (without sending any personal information to Amazon). Other addons are available to lookup information from other sources.		If you have tracks that are missing information or Album Art, you can lookup and import the missing information by clicking '''Tools''' > '''Auto-Tag from Web'''. By default, this will return Albums from Amazon that contain the Artist, Album, and Title information in your tracks (without sending any personal information to Amazon). Other addons are available to lookup information from other sources. Please read the following about Auto-Tag from Web if you're using MediaMonkey 4 or older: http://www.mediamonkey.com/broken-auto-tag.htm?l=en

	Once you've located a relevant Album:		Once you've located a relevant Album:

Rusty at 18:10, 31 May 2011

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	== Lookup CD Album Information from Freedb ==		== Lookup CD Album Information from Freedb ==

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	== Manually Lookup Additional Track information ==		== Manually Lookup Additional Track information ==

	If you have tracks that are still missing information (for example 'Year' information is sometimes missing from Amazon), click the '''web node''', to access several databases containing information about 1000's of tracks.		If you have tracks that are still missing information (for example 'Year' information is sometimes missing from Amazon), click the '''web node''', to access several databases containing information about 1000's of tracks.

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Rusty at 18:08, 31 May 2011

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	If a new Data CD (containing MP3s) is inserted, you'll be prompted to manually identify the CD with a 'label'.		If a new Data CD (containing MP3s) is inserted, you'll be prompted to manually identify the CD with a 'label'.

	== Lookup Track Information/Album Art from the Web ==		== Lookup Track Information/Album Art from the Web ==

	If you have tracks that are missing information or Album Art, you can lookup and import the missing information by clicking '''Tools''' > '''Auto-Tag from Web'''. By default, this will return Albums from Amazon that contain the Artist, Album, and Title information in your tracks (without sending any personal information to Amazon). ~~In the future, plugins will be made~~ available ~~that allow you~~ to lookup information from other sources.		If you have tracks that are missing information or Album Art, you can lookup and import the missing information by clicking '''Tools''' > '''Auto-Tag from Web'''. By default, this will return Albums from Amazon that contain the Artist, Album, and Title information in your tracks (without sending any personal information to Amazon). Other addons are available to lookup information from other sources.

	Once you've located a relevant Album:		Once you've located a relevant Album:
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	#Click the Auto-Tag button to automatically update the properties of your Tracks.		#Click the Auto-Tag button to automatically update the properties of your Tracks.

			<br> By clicking the '''Options''' button you can configure:
	By clicking the '''Options''' button you can configure:

	*Which Amazon database to use (US, Germany, etc.)		*Which Amazon database to use (US, Germany, etc.)

Peke at 15:13, 12 May 2011

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	== Lookup CD Album Information from Freedb ==		== Lookup CD Album Information from Freedb ==

Peke at 00:14, 9 May 2011

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Peke at 23:35, 8 May 2011

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	If a new Data CD (containing MP3s) is inserted, you'll be prompted to manually identify the CD with a 'label'.		If a new Data CD (containing MP3s) is inserted, you'll be prompted to manually identify the CD with a 'label'.

	== ~~[[Amazon\|~~Lookup Track Information/Album Art from the Web]] ==		== Lookup Track Information/Album Art from the Web ==

	If you have tracks that are missing information or Album Art, you can lookup and import the missing information by clicking '''Tools''' > '''Auto-Tag from Web'''. By default, this will return Albums from Amazon that contain the Artist, Album, and Title information in your tracks (without sending any personal information to Amazon). In the future, plugins will be made available that allow you to lookup information from other sources.		If you have tracks that are missing information or Album Art, you can lookup and import the missing information by clicking '''Tools''' > '''Auto-Tag from Web'''. By default, this will return Albums from Amazon that contain the Artist, Album, and Title information in your tracks (without sending any personal information to Amazon). In the future, plugins will be made available that allow you to lookup information from other sources.
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	*Which Amazon database to use (US, Germany, etc.)		*Which Amazon database to use (US, Germany, etc.)
	*What Albums from the database to lookup		*What Albums from the database to lookup
	*Where to store [[Album%20Art\|Album Art]]		*Where to store [[{{WebHelp:Links\|Album%20Art}}\|Album Art]]

	== Manually Lookup Additional Track information ==		== Manually Lookup Additional Track information ==

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== Lookup CD Album Information from Freedb ==

Whenever a new Audio CD is inserted, information about the CD is automatically looked up in the [http://www.freedb.org Freedb] database and appears in the CD node in '''My Computer'''. If there's a direct match to your CD, the information will automatically appear, and if there are multiple matches, you'll be prompted to select the correct Album from several options. To requery the Freedb database, simply click '''Tools''' > '''Get Album Info from Freedb''' (this only works when a CD is inserted).

If a new Data CD (containing MP3s) is inserted, you'll be prompted to manually identify the CD with a 'label'.

== [[Amazon|Lookup Track Information/Album Art from the Web]] ==

If you have tracks that are missing information or Album Art, you can lookup and import the missing information by clicking '''Tools''' > '''Auto-Tag from Web'''. By default, this will return Albums from Amazon that contain the Artist, Album, and Title information in your tracks (without sending any personal information to Amazon). In the future, plugins will be made available that allow you to lookup information from other sources.

Once you've located a relevant Album:

#Check off the properties that you wish to update.
#Update the # column of your Tracks to match the Track # of the tracks in the Album you've located, to match the properties of the looked up track to your track.
#Manually update any other properties that you wish to from your list of tracks.
#Click the Auto-Tag button to automatically update the properties of your Tracks.

By clicking the '''Options''' button you can configure:

*Which Amazon database to use (US, Germany, etc.)
*What Albums from the database to lookup
*Where to store [[Album%20Art|Album Art]]

== Manually Lookup Additional Track information ==

If you have tracks that are still missing information (for example 'Year' information is sometimes missing from Amazon), click the '''web node''', to access several databases containing information about 1000's of tracks.
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