Recently added files

[paulM]

I have a bit of an update on this one. Thanks for the suggestion. I tried it but it didn’t work. By the look of the output, it looks like it would have worked but for one thing. I’m a bit of a fiddler when it comes to tags and have been correcting various spelling mistakes whenever I spot them but more significantly have been editing date fields where needed from four digit YYYY format to eight digit YYYY-MM-DD format, because when I browse album artists, I like to view them in chronological order rather than in alphabetical order. Using the four digit format, albums appear in alphabetical order when there are more than one album per year and this is the wrong order in a lot of cases. Unfortunately, I edited somewhere between 40 – 50 albums in mid-May from four digit to eight digit (they have probably been in the collection for a decade or so) – and these albums appeared in the middle of the recently added albums.

The sequence looks good both before and after these albums, but if the recently modified field is the one that Minimserver uses to recreate the recently added albums list, then it has done the right thing, but sadly, that is not what I want.

Consequently, I have another question. My music server backs up my collection every night onto a separate data server. It’s only there for backup purposes but a while back I installed my second licenced copy of Minimserver as a “just in case” implementation. I haven’t used it much but do a bit of experimating with it from time to time. The recently added files sequence on this implementation is imperfect because unlike my usual setup, I do not rescan with each new album. It can be weeks or months between rescans. But all of the last 1000 items in the list are the correct last 1000, even though the sequence is not quite perfect.

Will the files from the data server implementation work on the music server or will I do more harm by trying (I don’t like experimenting on my primary set up because I’ve screwed up in the past!)?

One final thing is that I have been experimenting with the data server implementation. I tried the same update with the same 3 albums and the data server recently added files screwed up as well. Not a biggie this time because I had backups to use to revert to the pre-rescan position. This got me thinking that maybe there was something wrong with one or other of the albums. So I tried to isolate which album it could be by rescanning one at a time. But by doing it this way, all 3 were added one by one without problem. So I continue to be baffled about what is happening. If they are of interest, I have the recently added files from before and after the failure on the dataserver.

But my main question is – will the recently added files from one implementation work on another?