Just for information to anyone with issues with TrackStat and duplicated musicbrainz identities.
In the latest TrackStat version (3.1.3814) which I just released there is an option in the TrackStat settings page to disable the musicbrainz tag related logic. If you haven't had any issues you are probably not affected, the issues are typically shown as startup performance issues or inability to set/view ratings. If you haven't seen any of these you can probably keep using TrackStat as usual and don't have to disable musicbrainz integration. Also, if you don't have musicbrainz tags in your music files you are definitely not affected as this issue only affects people with musicbrainz tags. If you want to check for potential issues you can do as follows: 1. Install the free Database Query plugin 2. Got "Extras/Database Query" in the web interface and execute the "Squeezebox Server Inconsistency/Problems" query and look for the "Duplicate musicbrainz song tags" value. If it says "No" you are fine. 3. To further test it, you can also run the "TrackStat Inconsistency/Problems" query and look for the "Duplicate entries in TrackStat statistics" parameter. If it says "No" you are definitely fine, if it says "Yes" and have a high number you should either correct your musicbrainz tags (if they are incorrect) or disable the TrackStat Musicbrainz integration in the TrackStat settings page. The process to get rid of any existing duplicates are as follows: 1. For extra safety, shutdown SBS/LMS and take a backup of the SBS/LMS cache folder which contains the database. This will make it easy to recover later if something goes wrong. 2. Disable the Musicbrainz integration in TrackStat settings page 3. Do a TrackStat backup and make sure the file is written properly and contain a lot of data 4. Use the "Remove all data" button in TrackStat settings page (Backup section) to delete all TrackStat data 5. Restore the TrackStat backup, wait until the server.log file indicates that the restore operation is finished. Finally, note that duplicate musicbrainz identities is not necessarily a tagging error, because Musicbrainz changed principles a year or two ago: - Previously each track had a unique identity - Now two tracks have the same identity as long as they both represent the same recording of a song. Typically this happens if one owns a normal album and a compilation album which both contains the same song from the same recording. So unfortunately this means that musicbrainz identities are no longer a unique identification of a music file and due to this there are some issues both in TrackStat and SBS/LMS related to this. Fortunately most people aren't affected much since it usually only affects a few tracks in a library. If you select to disable musicbrainz integration will means that TrackStat will no longer be able to keep statistics when you move or rename music files. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49483 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
