Help Please - Duplicate Albums

[DavidHB]

(02-10-2016 19:22)pamrpm Wrote:  I have installed MinimWatch and have what looks like a black musical note in my menu bar. If I hover over it with the mouse it tells me my MinimServer is running and if I click on it it gives me a dropdown menu with rescan, properties, show logs, about, stop, restart, close, options, refresh and exit. Is there more to it?

No, that's it. But it's actually rather a lot. I can't reproduce the whole User Guide but three important examples will suffice.

Firstly, when you click on 'show log', you get a window showing the current running status of MinimServer. If any errors were detected, for example in a startup scan, they will be listed here. This is a great way to identify things you need to fix in your tags, for instance.

Secondly, and even more importantly, the Properties dialog is where you work with MinimServer, changing settings to suit your preferences. When the User Guide mentions a setting, this is where you change it. ('Options', by the way, are options for MinimWatch rather than MinimServer.)

Finally, the colour of the icon on the taskbar indicates the status of the MinimServer instance to which it refers. Let's say that, on your network, you have a desktop computer, a laptop computer and a NAS, all running MinimServer with a music library (this is, pretty much, what I have on my system). You are working on the desktop computer. The local instance of MinimServer will show up as an icon in the taskbar - green (or transparent on OSX) if it's running properly; the User Guide explains the full colour code.

When you run MinimWatch on the desktop computer it will show a grey icon if it cannot detect any instances of MinimServer on other devices on the network, but will show an icon (usually and hopefully green/transparent) for every instance of MinimServer it does find. So, in my example, there will be three green or transparent icons identified by tooltips for the running instances of MinimServer, the local one provided by MinimServer itself, and the others provided by MinimWatch. With each icon, you can work separately (look at the log, change settings etc.) with the instance to which it relates.

I hope that makes things clear, and encourages you to delve into the details in the User Guide.

David