Many problems associated with displaying albums and tracks can be explained by bad tags. But there are plenty that can't. SlimServer has a lot of scanner bugs which in my experience causes whole albums not to show up, more tracks to be listed in some views than others and also affects the collection/caching of artwork.
At this stage I haven't added anything to my music collection in a while. But playing with moving SlimServer from one computer to another and ping-ponging between different nightlies has shown all this to be very true. I am about to move to a current nightly since the one I'm running now (by necessity) is a few months old. The few I tried back in April or May were just giving me too many issues. I'm using all MP3 files and SlimServer is supposed to be reading their location from an iTunes XML file. After moving SlimServer to a different computer with an otherwise identical disk layout to the previous, simply selecting the iTunes option is not enough. I have to also tell it where the iTunes XML is *AND* manually specify where the music files are. It will simply not find the music files if I don't. The music is coming from same external HD with an identical iTunes setup with the XML stored on that external drive. I just did a complete clear of the caches a couple of hours ago and now the album listing is different than it previously was. The only changes I've made were to turn on the Sound Check option in iTunes which updated all the tags and then turned on the volume adjustment in SlimServer. Now I'm getting two album entries for "Forever Pop" from Alphaville. The first one listing tracks 2-13 and the second listing only track 1. The first has a cover the second doesn't. The relevant track details in the songs are identical. I'm also now also missing about 50 songs versus the count displayed in iTunes. Of course I have no clue which ones aren't appearing. -- MelonMonkey Bruno *'Twisted Melon - Fine Mac OS Software' (http://twistedmelon.com) | 'mira - Personal Control for your Apple Remote' (http://twistedmelon.com)* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MelonMonkey's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8466 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36049 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
