Melco MinimServer compatibility issue

[WigglyWoo]

(12-02-2023 22:41)simoncn Wrote:  I am away from home for the next few days and I will not be able to do any further investigation until I return.

I think there is a bug in the Melco renderer and for some reason the incorrect/incomplete metadata sent by Twonky for this track is bypassing this bug, either by accident or design.

I suggest you report this to Melco so that they are aware of the issue. It is possible they might already know about it.

When I get back from my trip, I will try sending different combinations of metadata to the Melco renderer to try to narrow down what combination of metadata causes or bypasses the bug.

I think I've found the issue... I redownloaded the files from Qobuz and when comparing to my versions I found that for some reason the artist name had also been copied into the TrackTotal tag in my files and a strange tag 'Epoque' was also in the metadata with two values: the artist name and the TrackTotal value. Deleting the Epoque tag and correcting the TrackTotal tag value seems to have resolved the issue and the problem tracks now play fine...

I've found this anomaly in both the albums where I had problem tracks, and both had come from Qobuz so presumably the metadata had somehow got corrupted when the files were originally downloaded.

Either way, looks like this was the issue (fingers crossed).

Many thanks for your help

Quick update: yep it was all my Qobuz downloads from 2015 (just that one year... bizarre). Have corrected all the metadata and now all files playing fine :-)