geraint smith;166112 Wrote: > In the wake of (another's) solved Mystery of the Missing Janacek, I > present in hope and anxiety and with a plaintive request for aid, a > further Christmas conundrum: the Case of the Walkabout Bach. > > Last week, according to Slimserver, I had around 600 albums ripped. > This week, I seem to have 335. What has happened in the interim, I > have absolutely no idea. If anybody else has any clues, I'd be very > grateful to hear them. > > I'm running an eMac 800MHz with iTunes, music stored on a separate > LaCie Triple 250Gb HD. Nothing about this setup has changed recently. > SlimServer is set to look at the iTunes library in the usual place > (/users/username/music/iTunes), and for the music in the correct volume > (/volumes/volumename/iTunes/iTunes music). Nothing about that has > changed. Among the missing albums are all of the Gardiner/Monteverdi > Choir Bach Cantata Pilgrimage so far released, which I'd ripped over > the last six months or so (wonderful music, incidentally) - except for > the one I ripped a week before Christmas which is, oddly enough, the > Christmas one (vol. 15). I've checked the relevant folders. All of the > Pilgrimage series is shown in iTunes. They are all - as carefully > retagged - under the same artist, and the files themselves are all, as > right and proper, contained in close proximity in the same artist > folder on the LaCie drive. There appears to be no difference between > the position, folder or file for vol. 15, and those for vols. 1,7,8,10 > etc. iTunes plays them all with great alacrity. However, vol 15 exists > in Slimserver, and vols 1,7,8,10 etc do not. > > That also leaves another 300 albums that also seem to have vanished > without trace, but are less clearly near-identical. > > I have tried: deleting/rebuilding my iTunes library (although the > contents of that are clearly correct); pointing Slimserver to the > precise addresses of said library and to the music folders; pointing > Slimserver to no addresses, but specifying merely "use iTunes"; leaving > the "look for playlists in" field blank; filling ditto field in; > rescanning (times about nine, at the last approximation); installing > the latest nightly rebuild of 6.5.1; screaming a lot, which seemed to > help at the time, but did not noticeably restore any music. > > I am also running Coverscout and CDPedia, although why these should > have any effect, I have not the faintest idea, either, being completely > and utterly baffled. So, if anyone does have any ideas, I'd be very > grateful indeed. > > Oh, and while I'm on the whinge, Slimserver doesn't see all my > carefully collected artwork, either, even though iTunes and CDPedia > assure me that it is there, and visible. These helpful applications > also assure me that the album count that Slimserver previously recorded > was accurate, and should, if the world were a fairer place, be > unchanged..... > > Thanks in advance. > > Geraint.
I had a similar problem recently. I uninstalled and reinstalled the server, and teverything showed up again. You might be able to get it to work by shutting down the server, as well as any mysql processes, and deleting everything under $slimserver/server/cache/mysql. I've also experienced weirdness wrt the album art. I had a similar experience with itunes and album art, and when I switched to flac, an apparently randomly different set of albums showed up with no artwork (looks like it was a much lower percentage of my collection). Maybe you should enter a bug about the album art, if you think yours is reproducible. I'd vote for it. I didn't enter mine, as it seemed that reproducing it would be very hard. -- totoro squeezebox 3 -> mccormack dna .5 -> audio physic tempo 4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ totoro's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5935 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31139 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
