i am hoping someone very familiar with the bug system, (like you kdf), can say or verify if a bug for each of these things exists, or if no bug exists, and if none exists, if one should be filed?
first, i mentioned this in another thread: > on my home SS page it says: > > Your music library contains 1640 albums with 20253 songs by 544 > artists. > > however, on the SS albums page, in gallery view, it says: > > 1639 albums with 20251 songs by 5663 artists. > > meanwhile, winamp which i believe (but am not sure) is the most > accurate says: > > 1635 albums, 20225 songs, 2136 artists > > -- > > so, close on the albums, and pretty close on the songs, but wild > differences on the artists, same dir of files. > > maybe it counts "album artist" or something, i don't know. > > it seems to me there should be a count of files ending in an > appropriate extension, to get a steady number. this would at least give > it the right number of songs. so thats one issue, the overall tabulation of songs, albums, and artists. second: when you actually drill down to an album, that has only one artist, SS will say something like: > 1 album with 12 songs by 5 artists. > > 1. Two Of Us from Let It Be by Beatles > 2. Dig A Pony from Let It Be by Beatles > 3. Across The Universe from Let It Be by Beatles > 4. I Me Mine from Let It Be by Beatles > 5. Dig It from Let It Be by Beatles > 6. Let It Be from Let It Be by Beatles > 7. Maggie Mae from Let It Be by Beatles > 8. I've Got A Feeling from Let It Be by Beatles > 9. One After 909 from Let It Be by Beatles > 10. The Long And Winding Road from Let It Be by Beatles > 11. For You Blue from Let It Be by Beatles > 12. Get Back from Let It Be by Beatles 5 artists? its one artist, Beatles. i think i have some CDs where it lists more artists than songs. third: SS doesn't always seem to get all the tag info, even after a clear and rescan. it will truncate some CDs album names, and not others, OF THE SAME BOX SET. fourth: it seems to have issues "forgetting" everything, even after a clear and rescan, which may apply to number 3 above. for instance, i had a CD of 3 songs by ben harper covering marvin gaye's classic, "sexual healing." it was some time ago, but i think for a while, the tags in the file were incorrect and said the artist WAS marvin gaye. i changed it to be correct via winamp. but SS doesn't care. and here's where it gets weird... it lists the cd in the right place, following my only other ben harper cd "fight for your mind." but in gallery view it says: > Fight for Your Mind (1995) by Ben Harper > > Sexual Healing Singles (1998) by Marvin Gaye > > Best Of Berlin 1979-1988 (1988) by Berlin then, when i click "Marvin Gaye" from gallery view, it takes me to all his CDs i do have, but not the one listed there. why does gallery view insist then on saying marvin gaye? if i click "ben harper" under fight for your mind, the sexual healing cd IS there. so... do all those issues have bugs filed for them? and is it possible, that even though i "clear and rescan" it is NOT a FULL clear and rescan? is there info kept elsewhere? is there possibly info in the SS cache dir? is it safe to delete the entire contents of this dir? i am not sure if the problem is the mysql DB, or the logic/techniques used to scan and pull info from the files to then store in the mysql db. but something is up. fifth: various artists are not handled correctly, at least to some degree. i'm not sure if the problem here is SS, or the way my music is tagged... but here's an example of what happens that bothers me: if billy joel has a box set, all four CDs of that should go under billy joel. there shouldn't be a CD that ends up as a various artist cd just b/c one track is billy joel and ray charles. (cd 3) i don't know if "album artist" as a tag can be used to correct this, or which tag SS uses as the dominant tag... but i could see a scenario where the one track could say billy joel on the artist tag, and billy joel / ray charles on the album artist tag, (or vice versa, whatever the convention is) and then whichever tag only has one artist listed is the tag SS uses to see if the album is various artists or not. so thats a fairly long list, but if these don't have bugs filed, i do think they need them. and if they do, i'd like to vote for them. thx, -mdw -- MrSinatra www.LION-Radio.org Using: Squeezebox2 w/SS 6.5.2 (beta!?) - Win XP Pro SP2 - 3.2ghz / 2gig ram ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MrSinatra's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2336 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32516 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
