Is deleting the SlimServer directory in Program Files all I need to do
for a truly clean install of 6.5? Are there registry entries too?

Because I have been trying to get a usable scan of my library for three
days now and each rescan results in new oddities. At first there were a
lot of weird things in my library and the scans would go for hours ad
hour without ever finishing.

Yesterday I tried the uninstall through Add/Remove Programs and it got
stuck in some kind of loop where an error was popping up in a command
line window and then disappearing over and over. I had to go into task
manager and kill the process for some temp file to finally get it to
stop. Then I deleted the SlimServer directory, waited for the rescan,
and my library was all hosed with things like multiple repeats of an
Artists name in the Albums list, split Albums, Artists listed as MP3,
Albums listed as CD1. 

So then I removed the music library and playlist paths and rescanned
with just MusicMagic enabled. Well, it got better, but I still had
duplicate albums. 

Giving up for the night, I decided to just create a mix in MusicIP and
send it to Slimserver from the MIP UI. When I refreshed my playlist in
SlimServer, it was listed several wrong songs. But when I played the
playlist, the songs were the right ones. In other words, the Web UI and
player were showing different information from what was actually
playing!

Throughout all this, I have not once gotten it to show anything but
placeholders in the gallery views, although I have album are in the Web
Now playing section and in the song info.

At this point I have removed MusicMagic from the picture and I'm
rescanning for about the 10th time with only my music path. So far it
does not look good, but I will wait to see if things fall into place
when it finished. It seems as if SlimServer is just ignoring my real
tags (the same tags that were read fine in earlier versions) and using
the "Guess tags" info which is not working well at all. Is there some
way to disable the guessing of tags entirely?

If not I am not sure what else to try unless there is more to clean
install besides blowing away the program directory. 

Can anyone help or should I just go back to 6.3.1?


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MeSue

Sue

PS: I once wanted a Squeezebox boombox, but I don't anymore. ;-)
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