Conflicting album artist values

[simoncn]

(20-06-2012 18:15)retraite Wrote:  Hi

Firstly, thank you for taking the trouble to reply again so quickly.

I'm sorry to darken your digital doorstep again, but in my corner of South-West France, audio enthusiasts seem to be thin on the ground, so I have to seek advice where I can find it.

For that reason, I want to use the golden moment of lucidity in my day that comes between emerging refreshed from the swimming pool and crumpling into a toasting heap with an aperitif and the Guardian crossword, to ask another question.

That sounds like a wonderful life!

Quote:I installed Minimserver 0.51 on my PC this morning without problem and made no other changes - at all. Out of curiosity I then looked at the log to find that all the "ALBUMARTIST" conflicts relating to my BBC Music Magazine albums have disappeared. I know not why.

That's very interesting. In 0.51, I fixed a small bug to do with ALBUMARTIST values for multi-disc sets. That must have been the cause of the problem.

Quote:I now have a different list of conflicts of which this one is a random sample

Warning: conflicting ALBUMARTIST values for album Classic CD - 28
on disc 1
first conflicting value: Gobbi, Callas, Orch La Scala, De Sabata
first conflicting item: Puccini - Tosca Acse la Giurata Fede"
second conflicting value: Grimaud
second conflicting item: Brahms - Klavierstucke Op. 118 - No. 6, Intermezzo in E Flat Major

the first conflicting value is the album artist, which after your response, I would now expect to see and know how to correct, but the first conflicting item is the title. The second conflicting value is Grimaud, again the album artist, but why would a one word name create a conflict? There are other Album artist entries in the same album, like "Suisse Romande Orch, Ansermet" which are apparently not causing a conflict.

This is telling you that in the album titled "Classic CD - 28", on disc number 1, you have two items with different values for ALBUMARTIST. In the track titled "Puccini - Tosca Acse la Giurata Fede", the ALBUMARTIST value is "Gobbi, Callas, Orch La Scala, De Sabata", and in the track titled "Brahms - Klavierstucke Op. 118 - No. 6, Intermezzo in E Flat Major", the ALBUMARTIST value is "Grimaud". This isn't allowed, because the ALBUMARTIST value must be the same for all tracks of an album.

MinimServer only tells you about the first ALBUMARTIST conflict for an album. After that, it gives up and ignores all ALBUMARTIST values on other tracks of the album. This is why the other conflicts aren't being reported.

Quote:I have also now loaded the 0.51 QPKG on to my QNAP 459 PRO II and seem to have the same conflicts on the log as on the computer . I should add that as a means of navigating my music collection, the server is doing a splendid job with Kinsky, presenting album and artist information and I look forward to doing more with it when the temperatures here drop to a level where being in the house becomes a more attractive option.

It is just that I would like to try to understand where I am making mistakes in tagging my collection and hope someone may be able to point me in the right direction.

I hope the above is enough to point you in the right direction. Could you send some of that hot weather over to southern England, please?