Proper Tagging and the Log File for Newbie

[DavidHB]

I agree that finding a huge number of errors in the MinimServer log is depressing. One way of making things a bit easier is to do the job progressively.

You can make a new music folder, which is separate from 'My Music' or whatever you are using at present, and change the MinimServer contentDir setting to point to this new folder. (If you are using Windows 7 or later, this new folder can still be referenced in the Music Library and be accessed from there.)

You could start with a single album to check your methodology, and work on from there. As you clean up your files, you can progressively move them to the new folder, and have MinimServer do a rescan after each addition. If you have the log window open while you are doing the scan, you can check that the errors have been corrected.

As you are already using MP3Tag, you could check whether just opening and re-saving problem files in MP3Tag clears the illegal characters. If it does, it as easy to manipulate large numbers of files in Mp3Tag as in dBpoweramp. MP3Tag also makes it easy to deal with the ALBUMARTIST issue an album (or more) at a time. Just make sure that you don't put semicolons in the ALBUMARTIST entry, as MP3Tag interprets these as instructions to make an additional tag, which, as Simon explained, MinimServer does not allow for ALBUMARTIST.

I hope this helps.

David