New installation teething problems

[Budgie]

(22-08-2021 18:49)Budgie Wrote:  

(22-08-2021 16:26)simoncn Wrote:  It sounds like either your MP3 albums are not tagged with Genre=Folk or they are not tagged with Artist=Leonard Cohen.

To check this, try selecting Artist>Leonard Cohen from the top-level menu. If this shows the albums, they are not tagged with Genre=Folk. If this does not show the albums, they are not tagged with Artist=Leonard Cohen.

Not quite sure I follow but from top level menu Artist>Leonard Cohen all 20 albums are shown but when I look at the metadata they are shown as Genre (80)???
If I go to top level Genre> I have all the genre listed but also at the top of the column and before Ambient I have (17), (80), and (186). There are a few other artists which seem to be involved so will check the titles.

Almost certainly munged during the transfer of data but it was nearly 5TB of data over many hours so not surprised.

Bottom line is that using Easytag all the tagging looks OK. Will check again and report what I find. Very strange. More worrying is the rest of the data which is not so easily checked!

Thanks again,
Alastair

OK, I do have a problem. My data are saved, for historical reasons in subdirectories by Genre and Artist so I have ~/multimedia/Music/Rock/Bob Dylan/...There are only 6 albums here and all have been correctly tagged with Bob Dylan as the Artist and Rock as the genre according to EasyTag.

Using control app, if I search from top directory >Artist>Bob Dylan I have all 6 albums but if I search from the top>Genre>Rock>Artist there is no Bob Dylan. There is Bon Jovi, Bruce Springsteen and all the gang but no Bob Dylan.

Using [folder view] Bob Dylan is where he should be.

I have rescanned everything so I am looking for more clues.