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Minimserver Displaying deleted genre
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02-11-2014, 07:22
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Hello,
Firstly thank you Simon for your excellent application. I've recently installed Minimserver and have duly been obliged to wrestle my metadata into shape as although the content of my carefully sorted library within iTunes indexes and plays as expected with other most software I use, Minimserver appears to be far more critical of tagging discrepancies etc...! Although it's been a painful and protracted week it has been a good lesson in detailed housecleaning too :-) As another member here recently posted, I have also employed the application Yate which has been proven immensely useful and an expedient tool to resolve many issues with AIFF files logging 'unexpected end of file' and other vagaries of the associated protocols. However, having now managed to clear most obstacles and being able to view my library and its defined genres via a remote upnp control point in essentially the same manner as I do within iTunes, I have come unstuck with a curly issue.... One of my defined genres is appearing with the correct number of 'albums' listed, but only a dozen of them display their covers, the rest are indicated only by a message stating 'loading'....which doesn't progress. Selecting one of these bogey 'album' fields crashes my control point software. I did find that although the 'albums' are not loading correctly to be displayed, if I instead select any of the associated listed 'artists' from within the same viewing pane, the artists album loads and plays as per normal. Believing that there must be some type of issue with Minimservers misreading of only this genre within my music directory, I selected all the albums of this genre in iTunes and changed their genre to another, in this case, from Dub Reggae, to Reggae Dub. Following this I deleted the Dub Reggae from iTunes and checked to see that the albums played fine and were all in place in the new Reggae Dub genre from within iTunes... all good. Next I set Minimserver to rescan my library (the entire 3.5 TB is on one disk which has all been sorted using iTunes). Once complete I am now finding that Minimserver sees BOTH, the old deleted genre Dub Reggae and the new one, Reggae Dub... and both have exactly the same problem with only a dozen of hundreds of albums visible !?! Checking that tagging of some of these errant albums using Yate also shows no discrepancies, and offers no clues as to what is going on. So I tried setting the root directory of Minimserver to point directly at one of the albums which won't display in the album view otherwise, and when I do this it appears and plays correctly. Which suggests that the error is not in the actual file structure of my hard drive, but in the manner in which Minimserver is viewing the file structure of the genre to which this and the other unreadable albums are associated. Note that I am using the default server configuration. Although I still cannot understand how it is managing to find the old deleted genre to display when it is apparently no longer existing in iTunes ?? Looking at ones iTunes music folder does not show any specific structure other than folders of all artists arranged alphabetically, the actual assignment of genres and playlists is not visible, can you please explain from where this information is derived in order for Minimserver to present it correctly, or incorrectly for that matter ? Any suggestions are most certainly appreciated. |
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