Help Please - Duplicate Albums

[DavidHB]

Firstly, to control MinimServer properly, you really need to have MinimWatch installed on a PC or Mac. This will enable you to change settings as necessary. You may or may not need MinimWatch to fix your immediate problem, but you will almost certainly need it in future. There are full instructions on the installation and use of MinimWatch on the MinimServer website.

Secondly, a rescan rebuilds the index (which is, in this case, probably what you mean by 'the database'). That will probably not solve your present problem until you have fixed the tags that are causing the problem. Apart from some investigation in the past, I don't know much about JRiver, but it has always struck me a a bit of a lumbering program. You could try a specialist tagging program; MP3Tag is free on the PC and highly recommended, and Metadatics on OSX (which Mac users here have recommended) is only $10 or so.

When you say you are getting duplicate albums, are you seeing all tracks in both the old and the new versions? Does the old name appear in one instance and the new name in the other? If both answers are 'yes', you may have duplicated the album name tag rather than replaced it. If either answer is 'no', you need to describe exactly what you are seeing, so that we can get to a diagnosis.

Then there is the Lumin Control point (which, to declare an interest, I loathe with a passion, but ignore my rant). To see the MinimServer browse list, you have to use its folders view; otherwise Lumin is just using its own indexes, and completely bypassing the MinimServer browsing options. Is the duplicate album visible in the Lumin folders view?

Like all servers, Minimserver identifies albums on the basis of tags not position in the folder/file structure, and therefore has rules (explained in the User Guide) as to what constitutes an 'album'. Assuming that it is the MinimServer browse tree you can see, your tag editing would appear to have fallen foul of these rules in some way, but knowing how depends on the answers to my questions.

I hope that this is of some help.

David