Editing Song Data; Changing Song Attributes; Editing Titles - Yamaha MCX-2000 - MusicCAST Digital Audio Server Setup Manual

Editing Song Data

Each archived song has unique song data—a series of
'attributes' including artist name, album title, genre name
and song title—and you can combine these attributes
together to use as keywords when finding a song from the
music archive. In that sense, song data (as a combined
result) is so important to identify a song, that you may need
to edit incorrect or generic names and titles to maintain the
MCX-2000 music archive as a truly valuable digital music
collection.

Editing Titles

When you set a music CD on the MCX-2000, it normally
attempts to retrieve song data from the built-in or online
CDDB database. If it's successful, the MCX-2000 shows a
list of songs with their titles, artist name and original album
title. If the song list is occupied with generic names such as
"Track" and "Unknown" and the CDDB Info command from
the Submenu cannot update song data (page 93), you can
use the Edit title command from the Submenu after
importing these songs to the MCX-2000 music archive.
When you record songs or audio programs from radios or
external inputs, they're also given a generic "Track" name
and sent to a generic album named "Album Stored from (...)"
that's categorized in the "Unknown" genre. Though you
cannot retrieve their song data from the CDDB database,
you can still change their titles using the Edit title command.
In addition, you can even re-categorize renamed songs into
an existing or new album, artist and genre (see the next
section).
If you see a generic-named item in a list view, just move the
selection (highlight) to that item and then select the Edit Title
command from the Submenu.
The character palette appears, prompting you to type a new
name or title. You can type characters using the palette in
the specified manner or using a PS/2 keyboard connected to
the MCX-2000, and then select OK in the character palette
(page 75).
n If you have a number of generic-named songs, it's a good idea to
start off renaming operations from their album titles. Since the
MCX-2000 remembers which "Track 01" song is from which
"Unknown" album even after giving the same generic name, you can
easily differentiate one "Track 01" song from other "Track 01" songs
when opening a song list from Albums (Top Menu > Library > Music
Archive > Albums).

Changing Song Attributes

If you're collecting songs performed by your favorite
drummer from a number of albums, you may only import his
or her songs to the music archive. This may often produce a
situation like too many albums, genres and original artists for
a number of songs, but without the drummer's name at all.
More concretely, you have collected several songs performed
by your favorite drummer, say, Versatile Boss. Those songs
are released from three bands (artists) named Jazzy Rocks,
Jazzy Pops and Pop Rockers, and their albums are
categorized in three genres—Jazz, Rock and Pop. Your
songs are organized in the music archive as bellow.
Artist: Jazzy Rocks
Album 1
Songs
Genre: Jazz
Album 3
Songs
Artist: Jazzy Pops
Album 5
Songs
Other
Albums
Songs
Genre: Pop
You can solve this problem by collecting the drummer's
songs in a playlist (page 82), but it's more convenient if you
can re-organize those songs with a 'new' album, artist or
genre created for that drummer as shown below.
New Genre: Fusion
Album 1
Songs
Album 5
Songs
Album 3
Songs
Genre: Jazz
Artist:
Jazzy Rocks
Artist:
Pop Rockers
Artist:
Jazzy Pops
For such purposes, the MCX-2000 even lets you change
song attributes—relationships among song, artist, album
and genre—to organize your music archive as you wish.
From the relevant list view screens, you can access several
Submenu commands to manage song attributes:
Album 2
Songs
Genre: Rock
Album 4
Songs
Artist: Pop Rockers
Album 6
Songs
Song attributes BEFORE editing
New Genre: Pop & Rock
New Album:
VB Works
Album 2, 4 & 6
Songs
New Artist:
Genre: Pop
Versatile Boss
Other
Albums
Songs
Genre: Rock
Song attributes AFTER editing
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