Album and track count different

[Avalon]

(12-11-2015 15:34)simoncn Wrote:  Welcome to the MinimServer forum!

Can you give more details about the MinimWatch install process getting stuck? Was this during the install process or when you launched MinimWatch at the end of the install process? If it was the latter, this might be because of problems with the download server when MinimWatch tried to automatically download and apply the latest updates. If this is what happened, it shouldn't have caused MinimWatch to "not work" and I will do some investigation to see if there is an issue with the error handling code for this situation. If you can describe the problems you experienced in any more detail, this would be very helpful.

Regarding possible missing tracks and albums, have you looked at the MinimServer log? You can view this by selecting 'Show log' from the minim icon in MinimWatch. You might see some error messages there and these might correspond to the tracks that are missing.

MinimServer does combine multidisc albums if the album titles are the same or if they are the same except for a suffix of [Disc n] or (Disc n). This is explained in this section of the online User guide and it is a good idea to read through this guide to fully understand the capabilities of MinimServer.

The Artist display shows the Artist and AlbumArtist tags that apply to a complete album and the All Artists display shows the Artist tags on all album tracks. I don''t know why this would relate to Chinese lettering unless a lot of your albums have an Artist or AlbumArtist tag containing Chinese lettering. It might be helpful if you could post a screenshot showing what you are seeing.

I believe Asset picks a random album cover for each artist and uses it when you browse for the artist. In a discussion some time ago (on the Linn forum if I recall correctly), this approach was not favoured by anumber of people including myself. There has been recent discussion on this forum (see this post and subsequent discussion) about adding support for user-specified images for artists, composers, conductors, etc. and this is on my list of possible enhancements for a future release.

Hi Simon, sorry I haven't had the time to give you feed back. During the minimwatch install, partly through the download a dialogue box would pop up saying that a newer version is available and nothing would proceed until I clicked, then in a second or two the download would fail, this happened 3 times even though it was the latest update that I had chosen and the correct version for my windows 7, I cannot explain this other than I was about to give up. However with hindsight minim watch was actually beginig to activate itself on the desktop bar, so it was working and did download, even though it said that it hadn't. I un installed it anyway and re loaded which went completely smoothly. That's the way I remember it, but I'm human so there could be some error.....

Regarding the minim server log, viewed usin minim watch lots of albums are described as "illegal" not sure what this means, most are downloads but one is a Tom Jones album, Praise And Blame which was a ripped cd, bought from amazon and ripped with DB Poweramp. The aforementioned albums are seen my minim server and play as normal.

I will post a screen shot at the weekend regarding the tagging of Chinese albums in the Artist folder at the weekend when I have time.

Regarding the brief discussion regarding artwork on the Artist folder, I personally would vote for something rather than nothing as no artwork makes the CP look very bland and I like browsing visually by artwork. That's just me and I'm sure I'm not alone, I don't care which album artwork comes up first as long as something does. Anyway that's my preference. No artwork at the moment makes me switch to Kazzo server while I browse the artist folder. I suppose it's what I'm used with asset and kazoo and songbooklite, so I don't want less I want the same or more

Avalon