Just a brief update on what I've found so far. As I've been messing around with this a lot over the last weekend.
Using MySQL on Win XP with the 6.5b1 nightly from 2006-02-26. I had 326 (some whole albums, some random tracks) out of 15000ish tracks with no genre displayed in Slimserver. The tags looked fine in foobar2000 and mp3tag. Thinking it might be related to MySQL I tried with SQLite but it gave me the same problem, although I didn't compare all the files the first 10-15 I picked at random had no genre in Slimserver. So I went back to MySQL and tried a rescan (again). I opened the web interface early in the scanning process and looked at an album I knew to be problem, surprisingly the genre tags displayed fine. I tried another album and again the genre tag was present and correct. Then I left it to finish scanning. When I looked at the albums after the scan had finished the genre tags had vanished. I used the MySQL Query Browser and looked at the genres table. This had 29 genres in it but some of the id numbers were missing so the highest id was 56 with lots of gaps. All of the tracks that had the genre info missing had a genre id that had no corresponding value in the genres table. At a loss, I recalled that sometimes playlists can cause problems. I don't normally use them but I'd saved a few from the slimserver interface trying to troubleshoot problems with Random Mix. Then Max fixed the problem and I just left them there. All the playlists were created by Slimserver and none of the tracks referenced by them had moved or deleted. Anyway, I moved the playlists out of the playlist folder, rescanned and everything was fine. No missing genres and the genre table looked better with 29 entries and 29 real genres. I don't know if this is likely to help anyone but thought I'd mention it just in case. Richard -- Richie ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Richie's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=88 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21345 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/beta
