Albums deleted from server still show in app

[simoncn]

(15-05-2014 17:15)nfnc Wrote:  I just discovered another baffling situation when looking at the sub-folder for the duplicate albums under the "Music" folder in the NAS.

In addition to the tracks for the album, there is a rogue sub-folder (which may be named after a track in the album or be unrelated) with random tracks culled from other albums in the music library. These rogue random tracks do not show up on iTunes or the Lumin/Kinsky apps.

For example, under Music/Pet Shop Boys/Discography/, all the tracks in the album will be listed - all is good. However, under Music/Pet Shop Boys/Discography/So Hard/, there will be random tracks from other albums listed in the "So Hard" sub-folder (which takes its name from a track in the Discography album).

I then trace the tracks to another album in the music library (in this case, Barbra Streisand: Love is the Answer), but there are no tracks missing from the Barbra Streisand album.

This is so odd...

This explains why you are seeing duplication. The rogue extra tracks are the duplicate items.

[nfnc]

(15-05-2014 17:22)simoncn Wrote:  

(15-05-2014 17:15)nfnc Wrote:  I just discovered another baffling situation when looking at the sub-folder for the duplicate albums under the "Music" folder in the NAS.

In addition to the tracks for the album, there is a rogue sub-folder (which may be named after a track in the album or be unrelated) with random tracks culled from other albums in the music library. These rogue random tracks do not show up on iTunes or the Lumin/Kinsky apps.

For example, under Music/Pet Shop Boys/Discography/, all the tracks in the album will be listed - all is good. However, under Music/Pet Shop Boys/Discography/So Hard/, there will be random tracks from other albums listed in the "So Hard" sub-folder (which takes its name from a track in the Discography album).

I then trace the tracks to another album in the music library (in this case, Barbra Streisand: Love is the Answer), but there are no tracks missing from the Barbra Streisand album.

This is so odd...

This explains why you are seeing duplication. The rogue extra tracks are the duplicate items.

Unfortunately, the rogue tracks are not the same as the album tracks. For example, the album "Asia" has 9 tracks. Both duplicate albums have the same 9 tracks.

When I look into the "Asia" sub-folder in the directory, the 9 tracks are listed but with a rogue sub-folder. However, the rogue sub-folder only contains 7 tracks (none of which corresponds to the 9 tracks in the album). Therefore, the tracks in the album sub-folder are completely different from the tracks in the rogue sub-folder.

If the rogue tracks are the duplicate items, then the tracks in the duplicate album should be the rogue tracks. But, they are not.

Deleting the rogue sub-folder/tracks does not work either.

Any other suggestions would be most welcome.

[simoncn]

(16-05-2014 17:30)nfnc Wrote:  Unfortunately, the rogue tracks are not the same as the album tracks. For example, the album "Asia" has 9 tracks. Both duplicate albums have the same 9 tracks.

When I look into the "Asia" sub-folder in the directory, the 9 tracks are listed but with a rogue sub-folder. However, the rogue sub-folder only contains 7 tracks (none of which corresponds to the 9 tracks in the album). Therefore, the tracks in the album sub-folder are completely different from the tracks in the rogue sub-folder.

If the rogue tracks are the duplicate items, then the tracks in the duplicate album should be the rogue tracks. But, they are not.

Deleting the rogue sub-folder/tracks does not work either.

Any other suggestions would be most welcome.

MinimServer looks for tracks and albums in all folders under contentDir. The rogue tracks under album A's folder that are part of album B will show up as a duplicate copy of album B, etc.

[nfnc]

(16-05-2014 20:52)simoncn Wrote:  

(16-05-2014 17:30)nfnc Wrote:  Unfortunately, the rogue tracks are not the same as the album tracks. For example, the album "Asia" has 9 tracks. Both duplicate albums have the same 9 tracks.

When I look into the "Asia" sub-folder in the directory, the 9 tracks are listed but with a rogue sub-folder. However, the rogue sub-folder only contains 7 tracks (none of which corresponds to the 9 tracks in the album). Therefore, the tracks in the album sub-folder are completely different from the tracks in the rogue sub-folder.

If the rogue tracks are the duplicate items, then the tracks in the duplicate album should be the rogue tracks. But, they are not.

Deleting the rogue sub-folder/tracks does not work either.

Any other suggestions would be most welcome.

MinimServer looks for tracks and albums in all folders under contentDir. The rogue tracks under album A's folder that are part of album B will show up as a duplicate copy of album B, etc.

Thanks very much. Halfway scanning through my > 1000 albums and, yes, the duplicate album was a rogue sub-folder in another album's tracks.

The nightmare though is that there are quite a number of rogue folders to locate. Is there a search function for this, other than to manually expand each album folder to locate the rogue folders?

[simoncn]

(20-05-2014 18:03)nfnc Wrote:  The nightmare though is that there are quite a number of rogue folders to locate. Is there a search function for this, other than to manually expand each album folder to locate the rogue folders?

You can login to the NAS using ssh and use the Linux 'find' command to search for filenames containing a specified string (e.g., an extract from one of the duplicated track names).

[nfnc]

(20-05-2014 18:14)simoncn Wrote:  

(20-05-2014 18:03)nfnc Wrote:  The nightmare though is that there are quite a number of rogue folders to locate. Is there a search function for this, other than to manually expand each album folder to locate the rogue folders?

You can login to the NAS using ssh and use the Linux 'find' command to search for filenames containing a specified string (e.g., an extract from one of the duplicated track names).

Thanks but, unfortunately, I am rather unfamiliar with ssh and Linux. Using Finder on the Mac seems to work albeit somewhat tedious.

Just discovered another "nightmare" but will start another thread since it does not quite involve deleted albums.