Oh if only it had been that easy ... on further investigation, I did find some artists duplicated ...
So it seems that for these artists, some songs were mixable, and some were not - so the artist appears twice: once for the mixable songs, and a second time for the non-mixable (not sure why mixability would make Slimserver treat the songs as being for different artists). Anyway, I found the cause. The non-mixable songs were coming from iTunes. The mixables from MusicMagic. The reason they weren't all coming from MusicMagic? Well it seems that the headless server doesnt maintain its database in sync with the MusicMagic mixer application - when you load music via the application, the server doesnt know about it unless you manually force it to reload (and I cant find a way to do that reliably, or automatically). It has a refresh parameter in mmm.ini, but it doesnt have a watch list like the application to tell it to look for more songs. And the solution? Stop the MusicMagic service and turn it off (disable it, and unlink it from the slimserver service). And in its place turn on the API support in the MusicMagic application (which does have a watch list, and of course knows about the songs you add to it via the GUI). Then what you see in MusicMagic GUI will match what you see in slimserver: because slimserver is getting its info from the MusicMagic application instead of from the headless server. My misunderstanding: I assumed that the headless server would somehow share all its information with the GUI application. Whist it may share some information, it obviously does not share enough to guarantee that when Slimserver queries the API from headless server it will receive the same info as when it queries the API from the application. I guess for some people this might be an issue: for me, not, because i was leaving the MusicMagic application running on my Win2K slimserver most of the time anyway. So turning the server off and relying on just the application is no big deal. I guess this is a MusicMagic issue really, not a slimserver issue - just posting here for the benefit of anyone else struggling to get the two working reliably together. I have to say, by the way, in case there's anyone out there wondering, I think its dead cool that the folks behind these two apps have decided to work together to provide the MusicMagic features via slimserver. Two very cool apps that I very much enjoy using, and without which most of my music collection would be very much more neglected. Steve -- madfuzu ------------------------------------------------------------------------ madfuzu's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5149 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25966 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
