RonM;499240 Wrote: > I've had a difficult time tonight doing a raft of retagging of the new > Beatles distributions (mono, flac24). The initial tagging was > incorrect, and I had to do a series of manual fixes. I used MP3tag, and > all was apparently done correctly -- associating correct artwork, > standardizing naming conventions for albums, adding absent tags, fixing > incorrect ones, etc. > > However, in a number of instances the changes were not identified by SS > as changes, and a "new and changed" rescan did not result in the display > of the changed attributes. I had to force things a bit, either by > deleting and then recopying files to the server database or by doing > fairly subsantial tag changes, especially to track names. Then all > changes got picked up. > > How exactly does this all work, and why do some changed tags (even > changing artwork) not result in the changes being displayed?
Which version of Squeezebox Server? Coincidentally, I was doing the same thing tonight with a number of the 24-bit Beatles albums. I also had to make some tagging changes after scanning a couple of the albums. Squeezebox Server (I'm running 7.5.1) picked up the changes without a fault. It uses the 'date modified' timestamp and the file size to determine if a track has been changed. Usually the FLAC tag will include some extra padding, so most minor changes to tags in a FLAC file won't alter the file size. In Mp3tag there's an option to preserve file modification times (which isn't set by default). If you enable this and don't allow changes to the mod time, and the file size also hasn't changed, then the scanner won't know that the file has changed. > I'm sure that a full rescan would do the trick, but I've a lot of files > and it takes a long time. How long is long? I use the Rescan Music Library plugin (standard plugin that should already be installed) to schedule a full scan every night, which takes about 30-35 minutes on my server. That way I know that anything that was missed will be taken care of. When I edit the tags of an album already in my library, I like to keep the original modified time on the files so that the albums remain the same order under New Music. So running a full scan is usually the only way it will update. -- JJZolx Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73068 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
