Album displayed as 8 albums

[linnkiwi]

(17-11-2014 21:40)simoncn Wrote:  

(17-11-2014 20:12)linnkiwi Wrote:  I have found a folder "@recycle" which is in the multimedia folder of the qnap drive, next to flac, high res and studio master folders.

There were another 2 copies of the CD1 and also 1 copy of CD2. deleted these and the CDs or albums now displayed with a "modified or deleted item. Rescanned with minim watch and those notices all went away, leaving the correct number of albums.

On further looking the "@recycle" album seems to contain bits and pieces, and nothing useful. Do you know if this folder has a use? There are another 20 items which i can check but after that I was thinnking of deleting the folder.

How do I find the content directory setting?

It sounds like this folder is the QNAP recycle bin containing files that you have deleted. It is included in the MinimServer library because the contentDir property is set to /share/Multimedia. You can see this setting by selecting Properties from the minim icon (in MinimWatch) and looking for the field named contentDir.

Deleting the folder won't solve the problem because the QNAP firmware will create it again the next time you delete something. You could disable the recycle bin to prevent this from happening.

If you prefer to keep the @recycle folder and you want to exclude it from your MinimServer library, you have two options:

1) Change your contentDir setting from the single /share/Multimedia folder to the three folders that you use for flac, high res and studio master files. For example, these folders might be /share/Multimedia/flac, /share/Multimedia/highres and /share/Multimedia/studiomaster.

2) Create a single folder (e.g., music) under the Multimedia folder, then move your flac, high res and studio master folders under the music folder, then change the MinimServer contentDir setting from /share/Multimedia to /share/Multimedia/music.

I did in fact delete the @recycle folder a few months ago, and noticed that it reappeared quite quickly. I was adding more albums a few months ago and deleting things that did not deem to be working correctly.

I have added two new contentDir sections and reassigned the existing one so three folders are specified. I am now down to 563 albums!

One other particularly annoying duplicate album has disappeared. I am sure there were others doubled up under one cover that have gone too.

When I hit rescan on minimserver, the icon goes yellow for about 1 min. Is this all the time it takes to rescan? I thought a rescan of a QNAP drive was meant to take a lot longer.

I now want to learn more about custom tag settings. But I will let the lessons of the last few days settle in before tackling that!

Thank you