Thank you very much for the tip, Chris. This does work! I entered in "noalbumdata" as the album name for all my files. Mp3tag makes it easy to sort them and add this to all files without album tags, writing it all in one step.
Then I added "noalbumdata" to the list of Common Album Titles and rescanned. Now when I look up "Nirvana" I get three albums: "All Songs", "noalbumdata" and another "noalbumdata". "All Songs" brings up exactly what I'm looking for. Both "noalbumdata" entries being up several hundred mismatched songs. Surprisingly, they are different. The first "noalbumdata" brings up "1 album with 573 songs by 226 artists" while the second one brings up "1 album with 293 songs by 130 artists". There do not seem to be common entries between the two but the total is a few hundred less than my total number of songs. However, it works. Extremely inelegant, but it works. Developers: could there be an easier way to handle files with No Album entered? Should I file a bug? Chris Saunders wrote: > Hi, > > Try the following > > Server Settings:Behaviour:Common Album Titles > Check the box. > Add the appropriate name(s) in. > > You may think that this doesn't help. You may need to tag all you mp3s > with "noalbumdata" then add that to the list in the server settings. > This may not be the answer that you are looking for but it works well > for me. > > I beleive the behaviour you are refering to was changed to reflect the > efforts of the Compliations section. > > ChriS > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Lanctot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, November 19, 2005 12:35 AM > Subject: [slim] Browse Artists broken in 6.2.1 > > >> I upgraded to 6.2.1 tonight from 6.1.1. Everything >> went very smoothly. I'm not having recanning problems >> and things seemed to be going OK. >> >> However my Browse Artists function does not appear to >> be working properly anymore. For example, let's say I >> want to see songs by Nirvana: >> >> Browse Artists. OK. >> >> Select "N" from list. OK. >> >> Select "Nirvana". OK. >> >> "1 album with 11 songs by 1 artist." I don't use >> Album tags, so that's OK too. Link shows "No album" >> as it did before. >> >> When I click the link, 6.1.1 used to bring up a list >> of the 11 songs. Now when I click the link it shows >> all songs with "No Album", instead of Nirvana songs >> with no album. >> >> I realize not using the album tag goes against >> convention, but I don't have any use for it, and it's >> far too late now. >> >> Is this the intended functionality? I used to get all >> Nirvana songs with no album, which was what I was >> looking for, but now I get all songs with no album, >> which is nearly my entire collection and is completely >> useless. >> >> The tree at the top says: >> >> "Home / Browse Artists / Nirvana / No Album" >> >> but this is not what I'm seeing at all, I'm seeing >> more like Browse Artists / No Album. The artist >> doesn't even figure into it anymore. >> >> I have rescanned twice, once by clearing the library >> and rescanning. No effect. >> >> I can play all Nirvana songs by selecting the add to >> playlist button when Nirvana / No Album is displayed, >> but this isn't exactly what I want to do because then >> I have to remove unwanted items from the player >> playlist. I'd rather add them in one at a time like I >> used to be able to. >> >> Any ideas? Bug or ID10T error? Thanks. >> -- ___________________________________ Mark Lanctot ___________________________________ __________________________________________________________ Find your next car at http://autos.yahoo.ca _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
