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Funny you should say that ... I've finally fixed the problem, though it took all weekend. My problem was that I couldn't reproduce it - track after track worked just fine when saved as a preset. There were just four that didn't work ... unfortunately they were exactly the four tracks I did want to save on the presets, and which had been previously working as presets on earlier software versions. Typical :) Now these four tracks played just fine when selected normally, whether by artist name, genre, album or year - they just came up with a playlist empty message when played from the presets. However I noticed that these tracks appeared in the LMS with two different artist names. This isn't in itself unusual in my music collection - lots of my music is tagged with multiple artists or multiple genres. However these particular tracks weren't supposed to have multiple artist tags, moreover there was nothing in the actual tags on the .flac files that mentioned the incorrect artist name. But somehow the scanner was picking up a second artist name, and when the tracks were selected by this incorrect artist name they wouldn't play, giving instead the same empty playlist error I was getting when trying to play them from the presets. Progress at last ... That left the question of where the faulty artist name was coming from, since it wasn't in the .flac files. All my albums are ripped as .flacs, one per track, but they also all have associated .cue files. Checking the .cue files for each of these albums, and the PERFORMER tag had the incorrect artist name that was showing up in the scanner. Problem found ? Perhaps, perhaps not, because a quick search of my music library found dozens of tracks with similar errors and inconsistency between the .cue and .flac files (the .cue files were automatically created when each CD was ripped, whilst the .flac have been edited subsequently as I rearrange and reorganise my music library). Yet it was just these four tracks that showed up incorrectly in LMS - all the others with inconsistencies between .cue and .flac seemed to scan just fine. More in hope than expectation then, I tried a "complete" rescan excluding the .cue files. This actually made things worse - two of the four tracks completely disappeared, and the other two still didn't play as presets. I tried various different scanner options without getting anywhere. Then I noticed that the tracks/album counts on the library were changing unpredictably between rescans. I ended up stopping the server, purging the cached database files and rebuilding the library from scratch. I did this twice, once including the .cue files and once excluding them. As long as I completely purged the databases between the scans then the track/album/artist counts were consistent between scans, and on the scan that excluded the .cue files then the presets worked. Problem solved. Long story, but yes the .cue files were confusing the scanner. However I'm left with some question marks: * Why it is only these four tracks that confuse the scanner, when there are many others with similar inconsistencies between the .flac files and the PERFORMER tag in the .cue file ? The only commonality between the four files is that they are the only four albums we've got with just a single track on the album/listed in the .cue ... * Why does any of this affect the presets, given that the presets point directly at the .flac file itself, and that plays just fine ? * And what changed, either between 7.6.1 and 7.8 on the server, or between 7.6 and 7.7.3 on the radio software, to expose this problem ? Thanks. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ khoadley's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37178 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=101188 _______________________________________________ Radio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
