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BSI Simian Audio.mdb problems importing to Natural Music

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mbatchelor

I have been pulling my hair out with a problem trying to load new music into an existing clock working on a new format for a station in our group. I have made sure all the audio files are properly named and tagged in the BSI Info Editior, Soundhound picks up the files just fine without an issue and sees them, however when I go to the import new songs, and import the Audio.mdb file from Simian, it will not add all the songs that I added that Soundhound can see... Does anyone have any idea as to why it might not be picking up all the new tracks from the Audio.mdb? All the files are shown in the Soundhound file list, but they don't all import. Trying desperately to avoid having to manually enter 1500+ songs into Natural Music... I'm at wits end. Can anyone help?
 
If I were you, I would double check how Natural Log wants it... By Column, Delimiter (Pipe or Comma, Space even).

I do a lot of imports in Music Master. I use AudioVault. I typically just find what Music Master wants, then open up my SQL in AV (last time, I built an mdb in AV). I rearrange it all to match, save my file (usually as a csv text file) and run my import.

If you can find out what Natural Log is looking for and how, you can always copy and edit your mdb file to match (you will need to borrow a machine with Access).

I know I use different programs than you, but I was hoping at least my method may help you a little.
 
What are you clicking on in Natural Music to try and import? Also have you contacted Natural's support.. They should be able to help you.

From what I remember you should be able to go under :

Data > Import

In Natural Music and then under "import filetype" choose "BSI WaveStation/Simian [Audio.mdb]"

Then point Import FileName to the file (Audio.mdb) in your Simian BSI32 directory.

At the top under "Include WaveStation/Simian" make sure your Categories in Simian (Audio, etc..) are check marked

Under the lower section you should see a "preview" of the first thing to import this should show you your source, title, artist intro, etc.. if all shows then you should be able to just click "Import" and let it import away.
 
...and since Natural and Simian are both BSI products, one would expect them to play well together. The best thing to keep your hair in your head is to talk to them. They've probably done it more than twice.
 
Thanks all... I think we have finally figured it out. It was an issue of some of the songs having extra data in the Meta Tags that wasn't playing well with Natural Music.
 
Bill981 said:
...and since Natural and Simian are both BSI products, one would expect them to play well together. The best thing to keep your hair in your head is to talk to them. They've probably done it more than twice.
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Actually Natural isn't a BSI product.. They do sell it thru BSI as it works quite well with Simian and OP-X but Natural Music/Log are a part of Natural Broadcast Systems. http://www.nat-soft.com/ I am sure BSI re-sells it as it's one of the few professional schedulers out there still on a buy out system. [and most stations looking for affordable automation don't want to shell out monthly fees for traffic and music scheduling software].
 
xmusicmatt said:
Bill981 said:
...and since Natural and Simian are both BSI products, one would expect them to play well together. The best thing to keep your hair in your head is to talk to them. They've probably done it more than twice.
Click to expand...

Actually Natural isn't a BSI product.. They do sell it thru BSI as it works quite well with Simian and OP-X but Natural Music/Log are a part of Natural Broadcast Systems. http://www.nat-soft.com/ I am sure BSI re-sells it as it's one of the few professional schedulers out there still on a buy out system. [and most stations looking for affordable automation don't want to shell out monthly fees for traffic and music scheduling software].
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I stand corrected. Actually, I'm sitting as I type this....
 
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