>You might also check to lookup the artist at lastfm and select similar >artists and see if you get the same artists, if you don't there might >be a bug in Custom Scan. > Certainly seems to be a discrepancy between LastFM website similar artists and my slimserver similar artists. I looked at "James Blunt", and the similar artists in slimserver only reported "Porcupine Tree". When I looked on LastFM website, it lists Coldplay, Maroon 5, Kelly Clarkson, Jack Johnson, amongst others, that I have in my local library. Porcupine Tree was not listed on the web site.
>Have you rescanned slimserver after you run the Custom Scan scanning ? > After installing Custom Scan, I did a look for new and changed files. When I was having trouble getting the new menus in custom browse, I did a full rescan. >Custom Scan should refresh the artist identifiers after a slimserver >scan but there might be something wrong here that is causing this. > Looks like it. > I'm not sure this is a permission issue, but since I can't reproduce it >at my end I would appreciate if you could try to startup slimserver >manually and see if it works better. You could also look in the log and >see if you see any other errors then the one you already mentioned. I have run slimserver.pl manually, and turned custom browse debug on. I tried to create a new menu, selecting "Album Genres" template and pressing Next, and then Save. 2006-11-02 23:42:36.3626 Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at P:\Music\SlimServer\trunk\server/Plugins/AlarmPlugin.pm line 536, <DATA> line 1. 2006-11-02 23:45:17.2367 CustomBrowse: Searching for custom browse configuration in: M:\Music\SlimServer Playlists 2006-11-02 23:45:17.2371 CustomBrowse: Loading browse configuration from: P:\Music\SlimServer\trunk\server\Plugins\CustomBrowse\Menus 2006-11-02 23:45:17.5312 CustomBrowse: Loading mix configuration from: P:\Music\SlimServer\trunk\server\Plugins\CustomBrowse\Mixes 2006-11-02 23:45:17.7747 CustomBrowse: Loading browse configuration from: M:\Music\SlimServer Playlists 2006-11-02 23:45:17.7873 CustomBrowse: Loading mix configuration from: M:\Music\SlimServer Playlists 2006-11-02 23:45:21.5883 CustomBrowse: Loading template configuration from: P:\Music\SlimServer\trunk\server\Plugins\CustomBrowse\Templates 2006-11-02 23:45:23.7204 CustomBrowse: Loading template configuration from: P:\Music\SlimServer\trunk\server\Plugins\CustomBrowse\Templates 2006-11-02 23:45:25.2669 CustomBrowse: Loading template configuration from: P:\Music\SlimServer\trunk\server\Plugins\CustomBrowse\Templates 2006-11-02 23:45:27.9274 ERROR: CustomBrowse: Failed to parse menu configuration because: no element found at line 38, column 33, byte 1203 at P:\Music\SlimServer\trunk\server\CPAN/XML/Parser.pm line 187 Phil _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
