aubuti;654728 Wrote: > Glad to hear it's working. I'm not sure what you've read about tag > corruption, but I started using genpuid a few years back for saving the > MIP data to my tags, and I wouldn't do it any other way. If you find a > link to a relevant thread about the corruption please post it here. >
It was posted in this thread actually helping the original poster to get MusicIP working. I quote: epoch1970;653585 Wrote: > > Words of advice for the next steps: > 1) analysis; > - In the slimdevices wiki page there is a case for using "genpuid" to > analyze files. genpuid can archive its findings within the tags of > music files, which seems a good idea since analysis is such a long > process. > I'd recommend against this. I had genpuid destroy some of my tags, and > also version issues between MIP and genpuid. > Just leave genpuid alone, go to http://localhost:10002, enter the path > to your music files and have MIP discover and analyse the files. > There is one thing you might want to do: specify the location for the > MIP database (in mmm.ini), and backup that file from time to time. As > an example, this is what I have specified in mmm.ini: > "cache=/var/data/audio/MusicIP/default.m3lib" > - Moving music files (or directories) around means a slow analysis must > be performed again (since archiving within tags is risky). You'd better > be pleased with your file hierarchy beforehand. > - Re-analysis of moved files means the MIP DB will show a duplicate. > There is a sorry way of removing duplicates (or deleted files) using > MIPs web interface. I think it entails clicking "add music" (sic) and > then "refresh songs". Or the other way around. The Total Songs figure > should decrease in the end. (The brute force way is to remove the MIP > database file.) > - Don't click "Add Music" without having filled the path field next to > it. If you leave it empty MIP does not look for the library path it > already has in its database. It simply says nothing and does nothing. > Don't go wrong specifying the path or you'll add fluff to the MIP > database... Hopefully web browsers will auto-complete the field for > you. > I will have a scan through and see just how many cASE changes there are, I can tidy them up before I start the analysis again. Thanks for your help though. -- Blisteringblue 'What am I listening to?' (http://www.last.fm/user/blisteringblue) 1 x Boom, 1 x Receiver, 1 x iPhone iPeng ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Blisteringblue's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=22946 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=89962 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
