RE: [slim] Newby Alert: Can't load music library

[Patrick Dixon]

I can understand your frustration, but bear with it.   The “The server is now rescanning your Music Library" message doesn't go away for me either; until I reselect a 'Browse' option - so I think this is pretty normal.   I agree it's odd that it sees absolutely nothing, but IME slimserver does get it's knickers in a bit of a twist when it can't understand the tags/name format.  I've just tried a test, and the 'Browse Music Folder' option does show the correct songs even without any proper tagging/name structure/directory structure, but other views give me garbage results.  Does 'Browse Music Folder' give you anything at all?   It definitely works if you use a directory structure as I suggested, and make sure that it's reflected in one of the 'Guess Tags' - even if you have no tags (which you certainly won't for your WAV files).  If you're not getting anywhere, it's probably worth going back to basics and trying that with one album (at least).  It can sometimes be worth trying a 'Wipe Cache' too (server settings>performance), rather than just a rescan.   FWIW, I'm running on a similar platform to you (P4/256MB, XP2 SP2, Firefox) - so it can work. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of ceejay Sent: 03 April 2005 15:23 To: 'Slim Devices Discussion' Subject: RE: [slim] Newby Alert: Can't load music library Thanks for the response.  I had intended to go for such a structure, though with only 3 albums hadn’t got quite that far yet! Nevertheless, just in case it was important, I’ve moved a couple into the full directory structure but (no surprise) its made no difference.   And I don’t think the “guess tag formats” is going to help either – slimserver just isn’t seeing ANY music files.  I note that when I click “rescan” I get a message at the top saying “The server is now rescanning your Music Library”, which doesn’t seem to go away. Should it? How long ought it to take to scan 3 CDs??!  All I’m doing at the moment is waiting till I get bored (multiple minutes) then checking “home” only still to read … “Your music library contains 0 albums with 0 songs by 0 artists”   And thanks for the offer of ripping my music… but its not going to be much help if I can’t use the ripped files!!!   Any more bright ideas out there?   Thanks ceejay   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Patrick Dixon Sent: 03 April 2005 13:21 To: Slim Devices Discussion Subject: RE: [slim] Newby Alert: Can't load music library   I think 'normal' practice is to use a directory structure like:   C:\AUDIO\artistname\albumname\tracks.flac (or wav)   (I'm not sure if this is what you've done).   You can then use 'server settings>formatting>guess tags formats' to set a 'backstop' naming convention.  You'll definitely need this with the WAV files, as they contain no tags at all, but you should be able to set FLAC tags as part of the ripping process.  Or use a tag editing program like Tag&Rename to add/edit them manually later.  Slimserver will pickup on the tags and recognise your music, or use the 'guess tags' in the event of no tags.   If you're in the UK and want help ripping your music, feel free to contact me off-list as I'm just setting up a service with the emphasis on quality (audio and otherwise!).   HTH, Patrick. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of cjt Sent: 03 April 2005 13:03 To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: [slim] Newby Alert: Can't load music library OK, So I’m almost certainly missing something silly here, but help would be much appreciated… not been able to find appropriate help in the archives so:   I have a Windows XP Pro machine, SP2, 600MHz P3 processor, 384MB memory, using Firefox browser…   I’m just at the very beginning of using all this stuff: I’ve wanted for some time to be able to set up a music library on a PC server and stream it to various PCs around the house, and also into the stereo.  Classical music, and audio quality, are important to me so I really want to do this lossless.  So now I read about Squeezebox2, FLAC and Slimserver and I think “great”, I’ll give this a go.   But before I spend money on the Squeezebox and a new HDD, and a *LOT* of time ripping 400 CDs, I thought I’d better get the setup and process right first.  So I’ve set up a simple server (spec above), not doing anything else. I’ve downloaded Slimserver (6.0.0) and Softsqueeze (and EAC and FLAC for ripping/compressing).   I’ve ripped just 3 CDs as a test: 1 as WAV, 2 as FLAC files (separate files).  Each CD is in a directory under C:\AUDIO  (it will be a separate disc if and when I’m confident that this works!).  I can see all the files in Windows Explorer, and play or decode them with WMP or FLAC.   I’ve installed and can run both Slimserver and Softsqueeze. I’ve used the “Server Settings / Music Folder” box to point to the Audio folder (and clicked Change).  I’ve clicked Rescan … and waited … but still I get told by Slimserver (or Softsqueeze) that I have no music in my library.   Help!   Ceejay.

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