Hi Simon,
I think I have too many albums and tracks to use a Control Point to go through the list one by one.
Since MinimServer can send the list of Albums to a Control Point can it also send the list of Albums to me as a file?
This way I can use other tools to run a comparison between the MinimServer library contents and my audio file directories to find my missing albums.
This seems like a very good testing tool that you could use to confirm that MinimServer is working as you designed the application, confirming that files are merged, not merged, and added to the library and provide a completeness confirmation.
Would you consider providing this download capability?
Chip
As I understand it, when you added 10 albums, only 8 additional albums showed up. It should be quite easy to use a UPnP control point to view these 10 added albums.
I don't have any plans to provide a file printout of the MinimServer library.
There is another way you can see what albums MinimServer has identified. If you set the logging level to Debug and run a rescan, you will see a log entry for each album that MinimServer has identified. Each entry looks like the following:
album=Il Canzoniere, L'Heritage de Monteverdi albumArtist=La Fenice artistType=4
album=Messe à Quatre Choeurs singleArtist=Ex Cathedra
You could use a tool such as grep to extract the lines starting 'album=' from the minimserver.log file.
(03-08-2016 14:50)simoncn Wrote: [ -> ]As I understand it, when you added 10 albums, only 8 additional albums showed up. It should be quite easy to use a UPnP control point to view these 10 added albums.
Hi Simon,
That is my problem. I can see the 10 new albums and the 128 tracks when I look for them using Kinsky.
I do not understand why I seem to have lost 2 other albums even though the number of tracks seems to be correct.
Chip
(03-08-2016 19:14)chip Wrote: [ -> ]Hi Simon,
That is my problem. I can see the 10 new albums and the 128 tracks when I look for them using Kinsky.
I do not understand why I seem to have lost 2 other albums even though the number of tracks seems to be correct.
Chip
Can you temporarily remove the 10 added albums (by moving them to a different folder on the NAS) to double-check that the album count has reduced by 10 and the track count has reduced by 128? If so, you could add back the 10 albums one at a time to see which one(s) are causing the problem.
Hi Simon,
I am now even more confused.
I removed the 10 recent albums and 128 tracks.
Now my track count is as expected but the album count is 2 less than before. Still missing 2 albums from before adding the new albums.
I know this because I keep a spreadsheet with the latest additions until I make a full backup. Part of my recovery strategy.
Starting numbers
Albums / Tracks
starting 1958 / 24389
add 10 / 128
results 1966 / 24517 missing 2 / 0
remove 10 / 128
results 1956 / 24389 missing 2 / 0
I will try running a rescan with DEBUG later today to see if that can provide anything meaningful.
Does the DEBUG log mention if an album is merged with another album?
I think the only way to resolve this is to compare the album folders on my QNAP to the albums in MinimServer.
Do you have any other idea?
Chip
It sounds like something else happened around the time you added the 10 albums that caused 2 other albums to be removed or merged.
The Debug log reports albums after merging (if applicable), so any album merged from multiple folders will show as a single album at the end of the scan. Any album that is not a merge candidate will show immediately after its folder is scanned.
The log window is limited to displaying the last 500000 characters of output, so you will need to use the minimserver.log file to get the complete list of albums.