You might give us some more information about the nature of the problem
but in the meantime some things that I found useful:
- cleaning up the mp3 tags. If you haven't done this it can make a big
difference. You can do this in a lot of different ways. There is a
bunch of freeware out there. I use a package musiclibrary from
wensoftware. ( I think it's about $20). It's got a lot of wildcarding
functionality and is faster than the freeware that I tried. But I did
NOT do any kind of exhaustive comparison; I just tried two of the
freeware tools, was dissatisfied, read about musiclibrary somewhere,
tried it and it worked well. If it's helpful I probably spent about 8
hours over a week or so doing cleanup. Once you get the hang of it
it's kind of enjoyable and it does make browsing much more effective
(you get rid of three or four different versions of an artist name
('Tom Waits' vs 'Waits, Tom' vs 'T Waits' vs 'T. Waits')
- using the Browse by Directory function. One of the great things
about slimserver for me is the Browse by Directory feature. I've tried
keeping the 'genre' field in the tag updated and consistent but using
directories is much easier for me. I've got 5 'main' and somewhat
idiosyncratically defined categories/genres as directories under 'my
music'. I can then just move whole chunks of stuff around using normal
wxp drag/drop without having to mess with the mp3 genre tags.
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