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Modify Bluesound Vault Album Names with Metadata Editor

Has anyone used a metadata editor to modify the album names, tracks or album photos? I noticed there are occasions when burning a CD, the vault uses incorrect album/track names (or they are listed as “unknown”). Bluesound support says I need to use a metadata editor to fix those that are incorrect. I tried one made by Apple but I could not figure out how to replace the incorrect album on the bluesound database with the corrected one from the Apple software. If anyone out there has used a metadata editor successfully, please let me (and anyone else who could use it) know which one to get. Thanks!


llarry
llarry OP
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Tom & Driiddle.  While I appreciate the recommendation about MP3 tag, the website says they do not have a Mac version yet; only a Windows version. The Mac version is in Beta and I use a Mac. I’ll check out Perfecttunes. Thanks to you both. Enjoy the holidays. 
llarry OP
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UPDATE. Since January/February, I was using the beta MP3tag for Mac trying to get a handle on how to use it efficiently. They have recently put it into full production. For me, it took a lot of reading on their forums, and playing around a lot, to learn how best to use it. It is a powerful editor and works well. Understanding the fields in the editor that get populated by the database, and how they translate in the Bluesound app’s categories proves a bit tricky. There are things that I have yet to figured out; like how to get the correct photo of the album cover to appear on both the editor and then the BS app; and some of the changes I make do not translate (I have yet to figure out why.)


For anyone with a classical music collection on the Vault (mine is fairly extensive) this editor is a “must have.” The vault’s software often puts the artist (the group or person playing the composer’s piece) in both the “Artist” and “Album artist” fields. So, unless the “Album title” field contains the composers name, you’ll never find it in a search or a category on the BS app. (Note that the “album artist” field should contain the name of the composer.) The “composer“ field is left blank, so nothing shows up under the BS app’s “composer” category. In addition, the BS software populates the “genre“ field using a wide range of broad categories and often incorrectly. The MP3tag software can correct all of this and, as I have come to learn, fairly easily. I have been having lots of fun making all these changes, and making the BS app much more efficient for my purposes. These issues hold true for genres like Jazz, so the tag editor works great for this as well.


All in all, I am extremely happy with both the MP3tag editor and the vault!


recluse
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Wondering if dbpoweramp "perfect tunes" can be used to edit music files in the vault from a pc, wirelessly, or does the file have to dragged to the pc, edited, then dragged back to the vault?

I read somewhere in BS support that all files have to transferred wirelessly by " drag and drop"?
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