SilverRS8;53249 Wrote: 
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> 
> Hope this still makes any sense and it answers your question?
> 
> 

Frank,

First of all, I've been using AAC for a long time now and I think it's
a great program. I'm trying to understand some of the options that are
not that obvious to me.

I think I understand what you're trying to tell me, but it doesn't
fully answer my question.

I have played/experimented with the CLI of squeezeboxserver and I know
for a fact that the CLI gives all the information you need about
artists, albums and tracks to make a catalog like AAC does. The CLI
even provides a (partial) link to the (cached?) coverart.

Because of the need for the MySql driver you're probably accessing the
database directly without the CLI. 

I recall having read something about the need for a drive letter to get
the albumart, but while looking at the catalogs html output file, I can
see that the links to the album art do not have a reference to the
drive letter or directories at all.

So I wondered, why would AAC need a path to the directories where the
music files are stored?

If I understand you explanation correctly, the starting folder can be
used as an index to get only partial information on the catalog.

In my case the M: drive points to the mp3 files only while the catalog
contains all albums which includes mp3,aac,ogg,wma and flac files.
These aac, ogg and other files are NOT accessable through this drive M:
!

So far I enter a drive letter in the Remote Server/NAS options screen,
a 'Full remote physical path to music share' and 'Starting folder' on
the 'optional' filters because the program requires it. 

So, I'm trying to understand the need for a drive letter pointing to
the actual music files, and if it is a way of filtering out unwanted
stuff, why does my catalog contain all the music and not only mp3
files?


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