Yamaha MCX-2000 setup guide Editing Song Data, Editing Titles, Changing Song Attributes

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).

nIf 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	Album 2
Genre: Jazz	Songs	Songs	Genre: Rock
Album 3			Album 4
Songs			Songs
Artist: Jazzy Pops	Album 5	Album 6	Artist: Pop Rockers
	Songs	Songs

Other

Albums

Songs

Genre: Pop

Song attributes BEFORE editing

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

		New Genre: Pop & Rock
	Album 1
	Songs
Album 5		New Album:
		VB Works
Songs		Album 2, 4 & 6
		Songs
Album 3
Songs	New Artist:		Genre: Pop
	Versatile Boss
Genre: Jazz			Other
			Albums
Artist:			Songs
Jazzy Rocks
	Artist:
Artist:	Pop Rockers	Genre: Rock

Jazzy Pops

Song attributes AFTER editing

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:

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