Warnings & Conflicts

[Martin H]

(21-04-2015 21:21)simoncn Wrote:  

(21-04-2015 19:39)Martin H Wrote:  Simon

Rather than start a new thread I thought I would add my problem to this one. I am getting this type of error:

Warning: conflicting ALBUMARTIST values ignored for album HDtracks 2014 Sampler
first conflicting value: Sonny Rollins
first conflicting item: St. Thomas

I have tried to find similar threads and I 'think' I have checked against these but still no joy.

These are the things I have tried so far:

1 - initially I copied and pasted the artist name over the Album artist name to rule out spelling differences.
2 - then realised that the album artist probably all should be Various Artists for that album and so I changed them all
3 - I wondered if the full stop was not permissable in the title tag and so I deleted that but to no effect
4 - I checked to see if there was more than one album artist (or similar) tag present but couldn't see anything in windows explorer or mp3tag?

Each time I rescanned with minimserver and watched the error log highlight the same issue.

Reasonably sure that the Album Artist tag and Artist names are correct now according to other posts/threads. Any clues?

MinimServer doesn't allow you to have more than one ALBUMARTIST tag value for an album. You can have any number of ARTIST values.

It appears your step 2 should have fixed this. Please try this again and check that the ALBUMARTIST tags were changed for all tracks in the album.

Thanks Simon, that is how I had understood it from the other threads etc. I went back and checked everything again and everything checked out perfectly as before to the eye. What I then discovered after some fiddling around was that the whole album must have somehow been copied to a bizarre location within the folder structure by accident at some point and the errors being flagged were from those files. Two things that occurred to me while doing this was that some sort of time-stamp on the log would be useful and also the full path. But maybe these are shown in verbose - I will check it out later.

Main thing is I am on the right track with that. I do have some other errors (headers etc.) but will try to work through it before asking further.

Many thanks


Martin