A little background: My music library is just about 1 terabyte. Most of it consists of FLAC files, which I have very carefully ripped and tagged. I also have some older MP3 files, some from sources such as eMusic, where I had an unlimited account, other from my earlier ripping days when drive space was more expensive.
I have used J River Media Center for years, and love it's almost infinite capabilities to sort, organize, and display music. I currently run a plug-in thru my tivo to access the JRMC music on my PC. However, what I have always wanted is a lossless transport that hooks up to my receiver with a hand held device that works wirelessly with a graphical cover art display. The Duet appears to be my dream come true (and at a price point that is reasonable). I have downloaded squeezecenter, and have spent a few weeks playing with softsqueeze, the compiled SqueezePlay app, and assorted plugins. After all this time, I am still unable to get a basic sorted list of albums to display correctly. File tagging: -Every single file has embedded cover art -Every single file has a defined ARTISTSORT, ALBUMSORT, and ALBUMARTIST tag, along with the expected standard title, artist, track, disc, etc. No compilation tags exist I want to simply see a list of my albums, sorted by ARTISTSORT first, then by album. This seems simple - I understand the options related to compilations, I have scrubbed my tags with mp3Tag to make sure there are no issues, I have tried playing around with CustomBrowse to see if that could illuminate anything..... but frustrating random results still occur. The punchline: many albums do not appear where they should be seen, and some are randomly placed elsewhere in the alphabet. My testing seems to indicate much of this is due to Compilation logic and file types. Key Issues and feedback: ----------------------- *No Simple set of rules for tag priority seem to exist The wiki or documentation should clearly lay out which tags take priority, and which ones get overridden. Understanding how the schema uses these tags would eliminate alot of floundering. *Compilation logic is overly confusing for end users I think I am a fairly sophisticated user, and the way the options are worded and presented is confouding even to me. Once again, a simple statement (If you set tag X and Y for all files, select these options, the Compilations will just work) could clear all of this up. *Compilation logic appears to break sorting In many cases, I noticed albums not sorted correctly. The culprite seems to be compilations. I have all compilations listed to appear under Various Artists... if I have a soundtrack with one track by U2, an ALBUMARTIST of Various Artists, ARTISTSORT of (Soundtracks), the soundtrack appears correctly, but other albums I have in my library by U2 do not appear under the letter U - rather they are randomly displayed in the Various Artist section. *Different file types seem to be treated differently While trying different sort rules, in some scenarios I could get all FLAC files sorted correctly, but none of the MP3 files. I can see no reason these would be treated diffently when they have the same tags fields. *VirusScan interactions The setup, logging, and wiki don't quite do a good enough job of explaining how this can give you grief. Even if you think you disabled it, McAffee can cause issues. The log presnted by the scanner give cryptic messages as opposed to explaing that it failed, andf the Virusscan is almost always the culprit. *New Schema This work sounds promising - but will it help me? I can't tell yet..... -- Random Lurker ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Random Lurker's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21320 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=55335 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
