tag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:/discussions/problems/47189-library-or-musicbeaTunes: Discussion 2018-01-04T12:39:04Ztag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/443621242017-12-22T04:25:27Z2017-12-22T04:25:27ZLibrary or Music?<div><p>I had BeaTunes working nicely.</p>
<p>Then I recalled a song I wanted to hear and did a search. BeaTunes could NOT find it. I knew I had the tune so went back to iTunes and sure enough... there the song was. I couldn't understand why BeaTunes couldn't see it, which led me to suspect that perhaps my iTunes Library is corrupt?.. Or, at least, music was filed in different places? I've been through a lot of installs and actually thought I'd had this 'cracked' by using Song Seargent to sort iTunes out. But apparently not...</p>
<p>So I changed my Library to 'File System' and bingo... ALL of my media seemed to come up.</p>
<p>But now, BeaTunes does not correlate music... I can't create song lists based on seeded songs? I get a error message. When I try to create a Matchlist, I get, "beaTunes was not able to find any matching songs..." even though all of my media is right there... 13,000 songs according to my 'Music' Library. But beaTunes can't make a Matchlist?</p>
<p>Is anyone able to explain what I'm doing wrong please? Or, if there is a way to fix this?</p>
<p>Cheers,<br>
Mick</p></div>Mickey Teetag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/443621242017-12-22T07:59:32Z2017-12-22T07:59:32ZLibrary or Music?<div><p>Hey Mick,</p>
<p>if you are using iTunes at all, it's highly recommend you use an iTunes-based collection in beaTunes. If you cannot find a song in beaTunes. perhaps it's because it is <em>out of sync</em>. Which basically means you have to synchronize via <code>File</code> -> <code>Synchronize</code>.</p>
<p>Regarding creating matchlists: This depends a lot on your settings. Can you send a screenshot of the match rule set that you are using?</p>
<p>Thanks,</p>
<p>-hendrik</p></div>hendriktag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/443621242017-12-23T10:51:19Z2017-12-23T10:51:19ZLibrary or Music?<div><p>Hi Hendrik,</p>
<p>I think there is something wrong with my iTunes Library?</p>
<p>I think the song filing system is ‘out’…</p>
<p>Here are the screen shots… I’m using the ‘File’ System:</p>
<p>This is what happens when I try to create a new Matchlist…</p></div>Mickey Teetag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/443621242017-12-23T11:10:27Z2017-12-23T11:10:27ZLibrary or Music?<div><p>I ‘think’ I might know what is happening??</p>
<p>This is the song count when using iTunes…</p>
<p>But when I use the ‘file’ system, I see a lot more tracks.</p>
<p>I think it’s the compilations?? I don’t think beaTunes is seeing my compilations when sync’ed to iTunes??</p>
<p>Mick</p></div>Mickey Teetag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/443621242017-12-23T11:25:39Z2017-12-23T11:25:39ZLibrary or Music?<div><p>Hey Mick,</p>
<p>the screenshot shows that you are using the match rule set <em>Default</em>. That rule set is defined in the preferences, see <a href="http://blog.beatunes.com/2015/02/creating-great-playlists.html">http://blog.beatunes.com/2015/02/creating-great-playlists.html</a> ("Song Matching"). If the <em>Default</em> rule set contains rules about BPM, key, etc. but you haven't computed those values, it won't match anything. Did you ever run a full analysis? I.e. do you have values like BPM, key, mood, etc. set in all your songs?</p>
<p>Also: You have the match quality set to 50%. Have you tried lowering this?</p>
<blockquote>
<p>I think it’s the compilations?? I don’t think beaTunes is seeing my compilations when sync’ed to iTunes??</p>
</blockquote>
<p>No, I don't think so.<br>
Have you tried to <em>synchronize</em> the iTunes based collection?</p>
<p>Cheers,</p>
<p>-hendrik</p></div>hendriktag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/443621242017-12-23T11:35:45Z2017-12-23T11:35:45ZLibrary or Music?<div><p>Hi Hendrik,</p>
<p>I just switched back to the iTunes Library.</p>
<p>Yes, I tried synchronization…</p>
<p>This is the song beaTunes can NOT find…</p>
<p>beaTunes doesn’t see any of my compilations!!…</p>
<p>Yes, when using the ‘file’ system I did a analysis…</p>
<p>I haven’t tried lowering the %, but I will.</p>
<p>Please understand… when I was using the iTunes Library… those settings worked fine. I was able to create Matchlists. It’s only since changing over to the ‘file’ based system, I can’t create Matchlists.</p>
<p>Mick</p></div>Mickey Teetag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/443621242017-12-23T11:39:50Z2017-12-23T11:39:50ZLibrary or Music?<div><blockquote>
<p>This is the song beaTunes can NOT find…</p>
</blockquote>
<p>I can see it's in your file system, but is it in iTunes?<br>
And it does not show up in beaTunes after you ran <em>synchronize</em>?</p>
<p>Does iTunes export its XML file? Can you check the age of that XML file using Finder. Is it current? It shouldn't be older than the last time you played a song in iTunes.</p></div>hendriktag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/443621242018-01-04T09:08:29Z2018-01-04T09:08:29ZLibrary or Music?<div><p>Hi Hendrik,</p>
<p>Happy New Year…</p>
<p>I’m still having problems with this.</p>
<p>Yes, the song is in iTunes:</p>
<p>It’s called “I am Pegasus”… displayed here. None of these songs from this compilation album are visible in BeaTunes!!</p>
<p>Yes, I ran synchronize. It does NOT show up after that.</p>
<p>The XML file…</p>
<p>I don’t know how to ‘check’ if iTunes is ‘exporting’ this file? What do you mean?</p>
<p>The age of it is shown.</p>
<p>I’m getting very annoyed at this problem. A great deal of my songs do not appear in BeaTunes. It’s pointless…</p>
<p>Regards,<br>
Mick<br>
Thursday, 4 January 2018</p></div>Mickey Teetag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/443621242018-01-04T09:28:40Z2018-01-04T09:28:40ZLibrary or Music?<div><p>Hey Mick,</p>
<p>I cannot tell from your screenshot: Do you have a file called <code>iTunes Library.xml</code> (without the <code>Music</code> part)?</p>
<p>If you don't have a <code>iTunes Library.xml</code> file, please open the iTunes preferences, go to the <em>Advanced</em> tab and make sure that <code>Share iTunes Library XML with other applications</code> is turned on. Once it's on, you should see a <code>iTunes Library.xml</code> file. For more info see <a href="http://blog.beatunes.com/2015/09/please-share-itunes-library-xml-with.html">here</a>.</p>
<p>Now, which file is larger? <code>iTunes Library.xml</code> or <code>iTunes Music Library.xml</code>?</p>
<p>My guess is, that <code>iTunes Library.xml</code> is larger. Background: Apple has moved away from <code>iTunes Music Library.xml</code> towards <code>iTunes Library.xml</code>. The file <code>iTunes Music Library.xml</code> is probably just a leftover from quite a while ago, representing an old state of your iTunes library with a few files missing.</p>
<p>Please check in the beaTunes general preferences: Which of the two files is used? What if you use the <em>other</em> one? You can switch by creating a new iTunes collection and selecting the <em>other</em> <code>....xml</code> file.</p>
<p>Hope this helps,</p>
<p>-hendrik</p></div>hendriktag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/443621242018-01-04T10:42:56Z2018-01-04T10:42:56ZLibrary or Music?<div><p>Hi Hendrik,</p>
<p>No, it appears that I do not have a file called iTunes Library.xml</p>
<p>This is my iTunes folder.</p>
<p>Also, in iTunes, I already have that ‘share’ button on:</p></div>Mickey Teetag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/443621242018-01-04T11:33:07Z2018-01-04T11:33:07ZLibrary or Music?<div><p>Hey Mick,</p>
<p>iTunes keeps its data in files ending with <code>.itl</code> or <code>.itdb</code> (see also <a href="https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201610">https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201610</a>). In your case, those files are named <code>iTunes Library...</code>, which leads me to believe that's what iTunes is using.</p>
<p>Those <code>iTunes Music Library...</code> files are probably just leftovers.</p>
<p>Which means that iTunes isn't properly exporting its data as XML, because there should be an <code>iTunes Library.xml</code> file for beaTunes to read.</p>
<p>Let's try to confirm this:</p>
<ul>
<li>Shut down both iTunes and beaTunes</li>
<li>Delete all those <code>iTunes...</code> files in your iTunes directory that have <code>xml</code> in their name (you shouldn't need to restore those files, but if you want t make sure you can, just move them to another folder instead of deleting them). Be very careful not to delete any other files, especially not the <code>.itl</code> or <code>.itdb</code> files!!</li>
<li>Start iTunes and play a song</li>
</ul>
<p>Now iTunes should have exported a new XML file. Can you see that file? If there's no new XML file, something with iTunes is wrong.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>-hendrik</p>
<p>PS: If you send another screenshot, please make sure to use a <em>Finder</em> view that lists details, such as <em>Date Modified</em> and <em>Size</em>.</p></div>hendriktag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/443621242018-01-04T11:39:46Z2018-01-04T11:39:46ZLibrary or Music?<div><p>Thanks Hendrik,</p>
<p>Followed your instructions.</p>
<p>This created another iTunes Music Library.xml file:</p></div>Mickey Teetag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/443621242018-01-04T11:48:00Z2018-01-04T11:48:00ZLibrary or Music?<div><p>Ok—I have to admit, that surprises me.<br>
Now please start beaTunes and open then general preferences. Which XML file are you using?<br>
When you <em>synchronize</em> (in beaTunes via <code>File</code> -> <code>Synchronize</code>), do the missing songs appear? After synchronization, please upload your logs via <code>Help</code> -> <code>Upload Logs</code>. Perhaps there is something in there that explains this...<br>
Which file format are your missing songs in? MP3?</p></div>hendriktag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/443621242018-01-04T12:01:10Z2018-01-04T12:01:10ZLibrary or Music?<div><p>ok, I have uploaded the log file.</p>
<p>I followed your instructions.</p>
<p>On re-load, it appears that BeaTunes is using the same file as in my folder.</p>
<p>The song does not show up, even after synchronization.</p>
<p>The song is an mpeg file:</p></div>Mickey Teetag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/443621242018-01-04T12:14:15Z2018-01-04T12:14:15ZLibrary or Music?<div><p>According to the log, when you are searching in beaTunes, you are <em>only</em> searching in the <em>Artist</em> field.</p>
<p>Can you still reproduce the issue, when you set the field filter to <em>All</em>, as shown in the attached screenshot? To get to the popup, just click on the magnifying glass.</p></div>hendriktag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/443621242018-01-04T12:28:41Z2018-01-04T12:28:41ZLibrary or Music?<div><p>O.M.G….. is that all it was?…</p>
<p>Yes, I found the file!!! hahahaha…. Rookie mistake, sorry.</p></div>Mickey Teetag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/443621242018-01-04T12:39:03Z2018-01-04T12:39:03ZLibrary or Music?<div><blockquote>
<p>Yes, I found the file!!! hahahaha…. Rookie mistake, sorry.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>No problem. Happens!<br>
And admittedly, it's not obvious.</p></div>hendrik