chaug wrote: > Could you specify more precisely what tags are required in an audio file > in order for it to me recognized/remembered by TrackStat after bein > moved or renamed? > > I am running MusicIP headless on my ReadyNAS and I'm not sure if it is > writing the right tags into the files (or perhaps its not writing > anything into the files?). If I'm looking at my music collection with > MP3tag, I see that most (but not all) files have a tag called > FINGERPRINT which contains data like this: > AXwjDOIPAAklCvgHngRSAkwHtgQmBD0FRQKsA74D6gLOBBkDPQH2AlgF8wPBAnMDLQJMATwCFwElAQwBewFOARMBIAEnAN8AywD6APkA7A.... > etc Is this what Trackstat is using? > > Alternatively, I might ask, what exactly it means to "Tag your files in > MusicBrainz". I suppose it is not the ordinary album and artist name > tags that you have in mind but probably the fingerprint, but also here, > I am not sure how I know whether the fingerprint has been written. I > tried analyzing a couple of Albums with MusicBrainz and then clicked > "save", but this does not populate the fingerprint tag that I see in > MP3tag. > > Finally, I also run bliss (www.blisshq.com) on my server and I think > that does Musicbrainz fingerprinting too. But before I make those > changes that might affect Trackstat, I'd like to make sure that all > files are tagged correctly for TrackSTat to remember... > > Could anyone clarify this? > > Regards, > Christoph > See the "Track ID" column in this table: http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/SlimServerSupportedTags I know the Musicbrainz Picard tagger does it right, but it's probably done by the other Musicbrainz tools also: http://musicbrainz.org/doc/MusicBrainz_Picard The Picard tagger is a bit dangerous because it also replace other tags like ALBUM and ARTIST with the values stored in the central Musicbrainz database.
If you install the free Database Query plugin you can look at the report called "Squeezebox Server Statistics", if the row "Number of songs without musicbrainz tags" on that report exists after a full rescan and is a non zero value it means that you still have files without musicbrainz tags. If using Database Query plugin, it's also worth to check the "Duplicate musicbrainz song tags" row in the "Squeezebox Server Inconsistency/Problems" report because if that is a non zero value the TrackStat musicbrainz handling won't work good in your library. The "Duplicate musicbrainz song tags" row typically indicate that you have compilation albums which contains the same songs as some of your normal albums, the result of this is that musicbrainz identities aren't unique. The easiest solution is to just remove the musicbrainz tags from the compilation albums which have the duplicates, which means that it works for most of your library just not for some of the compilation albums. If you don't want to do this, there is an option to disable musicbrainz logic in TrackStat settings page, but then you can't move/rename files without loosing TrackStat data. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35962 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
