Christian Pernegger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ... > Relatively early in the scanning progress slimserver finds an .mp3 in > my misc folder, with "ALBUM=LIVE", only later in the scanning process > it finds the Police album in question. As long as "Live" is included > popular album title which requires an artist match the .mp3 doesn't > show up in the same album as the Police .flacs but they still > "inherit" its title, including capitalization. > > But why would slimserver assume the album titles to be the same in the > first place? One is "LIVE", the other is "Live!" At the very least > it's not case sensitive and even that would only explain it if the ! > at the end of the second album's title either got stripped or if it > were determined by the directory name at this point, which is just > "Live" to avoid any special char problems. > > I retagged the .mp3 to use "ALBUM=__LIVE" for testing and suddenly the > Police one came out fine, as "Live!" As sonn as I reverted it was all > "LIVE" again.
It seems that internally the server matches things by their sort order, which is case insensitive and ignores special punctuation and the specified "ignore" articles. I suspect what you're seeing may a result of that. One other bug I've seen as a side effect of this is where an inconsistent tsop tag (sort order for artist) leads to duplicate artist entries with the exact same displayed name. I'm not sure exactly why it's done this way internally. Slimserver does a lot of guessing to match individual songs to their respective albums, which can be tricky when you get into various artist albums and albums named things like "Greatest Hits", or in this case "Live". Maybe this way of matching somehow made that easier, especially if people have inconsistent tags? I'm just guessing here. Perhaps slimserver needs a "competency" setting that means, "my tags and my directory structure are consistent. Things in this dir belong to the same album, and things elsewhere in my collection belong to something else, and trust the displayed name of artist/album/track for matching." In the mean time, you should probably file a bug. -michael -- "Lately, the only thing keeping me from being a serial killer is my distaste for manual labor." -dilbert _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
