Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-02-08 Thread SilverRS8
Rick B.;267009 Wrote: My problem with multiple listings of song titles remains after following the suggestions. I get multiple songs with the new version of ACC, but everything is correct if I use older version 1 of ACC. ACC access the DB directly. It determine is a track belongs to a new

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-02-08 Thread Rick B .
venus light;265913 Wrote: Frank or one of the other guys might have a better answer, but I would guess it is Music IP. I was running it and if I did anything to my tags or moved files and rescanned with SlimServer, it always showed multiple instances of songs and/or albums. It's

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-02-06 Thread Rick B .
Thanks for the suggestion, venus light. In fact, I had just done a complete re-scan. I'll report back after I do what you suggest. -- Rick B. Rick B.'s Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8973 View

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-02-06 Thread mkgolden1
...this script; it is EXACTLY what I have been hacking around with off and on, or been lazy and looking for someone to have created a solution, for years. Unfortunately for me, I had a drive failure last night and when the rescan occurred my db was empty, so I am doing a rebuild of the RAID and

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-02-05 Thread cnsmipe
schatzy;264646 Wrote: I did some extensive testing last night by setting up a few albums for AC/DC, AC\DC, for the ACDC, AC DC problem you are having. What I found was that no matter what I did it would always Come out as AC/DC. It did not matter which way the /\ went or if it had a space

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-02-05 Thread schatzy
cnsmipe;265708 Wrote: So strange, I tried yesterday, ( i did a system restore due to a different problem) and had to reinstall both ACC and MYsql ODBC. And the AC/DC problem was solved!!! So my question is where does ACC get the Tag info from? Is't from the SS db or is't from the IDtag

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-02-05 Thread Rick B .
Frank, I had an older version of your script and it worked perfectly. I downloaded your latest version yesterday and for about a half of my 800 albums it doubles all of the song titles - i.e., each song is repeated twice in a row. The rest look perfect. I don't think it's my tags as I don't fool

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-02-05 Thread venus light
Rick B.;265778 Wrote: Frank, I had an older version of your script and it worked perfectly. I downloaded your latest version yesterday and for about a half of my 800 albums it doubles all of the song titles - i.e., each song is repeated twice in a row. And, for some Various Artists' albums

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-02-04 Thread venus light
Frank, Thanks for your response. I'll try and sort out the tagging issue on my own - if I can't figure it out, I'll post a screenshot of the tags. I was indeed running RC3 instead of RC3a - after upgrading, it fixed the Various Artists issue. I changed the code to sort by AlbumTitle, thanks

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-02-02 Thread terry
SilverRS8;263505 Wrote: Strange. I can only relate this to mySQL and an open recordset that should be closed but others have reported no problem whatsoever. I tried several thing but they all result in non functioning ACC for other users. I see in your system specs from your previous post

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-02-02 Thread venus light
Frank, Thanks so much for all your hard work with this - it's exactly what I've been looking for. I've got a couple of questions... 1) How is it supposed to handle Various Artists? I've tagged all my VA albums as: Artist - Various Artists Title - Artist / Song title I've found it easiest for

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-02-02 Thread SilverRS8
venus light;265120 Wrote: Frank, Thanks so much for all your hard work with this - it's exactly what I've been looking for. I've got a couple of questions... 1) How is it supposed to handle Various Artists? I've tagged all my VA albums as: Artist - Various Artists Title - Artist /

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-02-01 Thread SilverRS8
cnsmipe;264494 Wrote: Server 6.5.X This appears on more the one album... My structure are as follows Directory named: Artist, subdirectory: album files 1 - Title Track tag is 01 02 and so on Mike Do you use the ACC RC3a release? RC3 had an issue regarding albums appearing multiple

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-02-01 Thread cnsmipe
SilverRS8;264601 Wrote: Do you use the ACC RC3a release? RC3 had an issue regarding albums appearing multiple times. Frank Yes I do use RC3a release, is there a later version? And regarding the AC/DC and the / issue I'v tried to retag all to ACDC and AC DC but still I get the same result.

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-02-01 Thread schatzy
cnsmipe;264608 Wrote: Yes I do use RC3a release, is there a later version? And regarding the AC/DC and the / issue I'v tried to retag all to ACDC and AC DC but still I get the same result. I reinstalled the mySQL ODCB after retagging but before running Your script Mike I did some

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-02-01 Thread cnsmipe
I'll try that as soon as I get back home, i'm at my parents house for the weekend. Mike -- cnsmipe cnsmipe's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10602 View this thread:

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-01-31 Thread cnsmipe
Hi I'm a bit confused here!!! What ID tags are You reading??? I've tagged all my music according to the instructions in the WiKi so I do only have ID3v2 tags No APE or anything else... But still i do get two different problems running your nice application/script. First off: AC/DC the tag is as

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-01-31 Thread schatzy
cnsmipe;264469 Wrote: Hi Then the other: Some albums are showing up as 1 Album/song so an album with 12 songs will show up as 12 albums BR Mike Mike, When this happens does SC7 or SS6.5.x show one album or multiple albums as well. Check the track tags. If the tracks list as 1 then

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-01-31 Thread cnsmipe
schatzy;264486 Wrote: Mike, When this happens does SC7 or SS6.5.x show one album or multiple albums as well. Check the track tags. If the tracks list as 1 then 2 then 3/12 then 4 then 5/12 then this can cause this to happen. Schatzy Server 6.5.X This appears on more the one

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-01-31 Thread SilverRS8
cnsmipe;264469 Wrote: Hi I'm a bit confused here!!! What ID tags are You reading??? I've tagged all my music according to the instructions in the WiKi so I do only have ID3v2 tags No APE or anything else... But still i do get two different problems running your nice application/script.

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-01-31 Thread cnsmipe
SilverRS8;264554 Wrote: I'll do some checks on the AC/DC problem which can either be two things: 1. The way it is stored in the DB or 2. The '/' is causing problems. I'll get back on this one. For the second problem; This can have the following reasons: 1. The albumname tag is different

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-01-29 Thread SilverRS8
Hi all, My website is working again and I posted the RC3a version on http://www.vanholt.nl/acc/acc.htm . There was a problem with the various artist albums when the option 'use folder structure to distinguish albums' option was selected which is fixed in this version. Let me know if the

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-01-29 Thread SilverRS8
MuckleEck;263512 Wrote: Frank, Great work once again, I had to make a modification as shown below to the replace filepath line but after that it picked up all the covers... sFilepath = Replace( rs(path), file:n2100/itunes ,y:) 'Strip file:/// prefix The only problem now is

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-01-29 Thread MuckleEck
Frank, Great work once again, I had to make a modification as shown below to the replace filepath line but after that it picked up all the covers... sFilepath = Replace( rs(path), file:n2100/itunes ,y:) 'Strip file:/// prefix The only problem now is the various Artists albums that I

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-01-29 Thread SilverRS8
MuckleEck;263532 Wrote: Frank, The folder.jpg is in there for that album but maybe can't be read because of the Œ. Your absolutely right. I'll see if I can fix this... Frank -- SilverRS8 Author of AlbumCatalogCreator for

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-01-29 Thread MuckleEck
Frank, As far as the unknown images are concerned they work in firefox but not IE... I have re-saved as foilder.jpg and they are ok in IE now Kind Regards Alasdair -- MuckleEck Alasdair 3 SB3s - AudioEngine 2 - Cambridge Audio 640R - Mordaunt Short

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-01-29 Thread SilverRS8
MuckleEck;263536 Wrote: Frank, As far as the unknown images are concerned they work in firefox but not IE... I have re-saved as foilder.jpg and they are ok in IE now Kind Regards Alasdair Sounds like the .png issue which Firefox is known to support better. Thx for the feedback.

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-01-29 Thread MuckleEck
Frank I think the character is an Œ as in Joseph Bonnet: Œuvres Complètes, Vol. 1 The folder.jpg is in there for that album but maybe can't be read because of the Œ. Image of album attached. Thanks Alasdair +---+ |Filename:

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-01-29 Thread MuckleEck
Frank, A sample entry from the dB (imported into excel) as below file:n2100/itunes/Music/B/Bach/Great%20Organ%20Works%20-%20Carlo%20Curley/01%20-%20Passacaglia%20and%20Fugue%20in%20C%20Minor,%20BMV%20582.flac The path that I use from windows is y:\music\b\bach\...etc Tried rc3a...various

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-01-29 Thread SilverRS8
Hi MuckleEck, Thx for the info regarding the paths. I'll use these as input for the changes to be made and send you the version for testing. I had this once myself and it appeared to be a cover.jpg file which was actually a .png format. Can you check this? Irfanview reports such things on

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-01-29 Thread SilverRS8
B.T.W. If you select 'Print background colors and images' from the Internet explorer Tools - Extra - Advanced options, the gradient background in the headers will also be printed to PDF (or printer). Frank -- SilverRS8 Author of

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-01-29 Thread tamanaco
Frank, albums that contain double quotes within their name in the tags are converted to 'single quotes' when the folder are created based on these tags. This 'placeyourquotehere' are interpreted by ACC as: quot;placeyourquoteherequot; -- tamanaco

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-01-29 Thread jordi . c
Hi Frank, thanks for making this wondefull add-on :) I have some question concerning If i can use it. -SlimServer (6.5.4) is running on a NAS where Linux is installed on. -The work PC's OS is Windows Vista. Is it possible for me to get this working? thanks in advance. Jordi -- jordi.c

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-01-29 Thread SilverRS8
jordi.c;263806 Wrote: Hi Frank, thanks for making this wondefull add-on :) I have some question concerning If i can use it. -SlimServer (6.5.4) is running on a NAS where Linux is installed on. -The work PC's OS is Windows Vista. Is it possible for me to get this working?

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-01-28 Thread SilverRS8
terry;263136 Wrote: Frank, Just to be sure, the line I commented out was the rs.close as shown in the following code fragment: ' == FUNCTION == ' Execute query and fill Album array '

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-01-27 Thread terry
Tamanaco, Looks like it's an archive within an archive; just add a zip extension to open the embedded archive. Frank, With RC3 I'm now getting a non-zero error message; hope it means more to you! ACC.log: ACC Version : 1.0 Release Candidate 3 STARTED : 1/27/2008 --- 9:57:07 AM STATUS

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-01-27 Thread tamanaco
terry;262996 Wrote: Tamanaco, Looks like it's an archive within an archive; just add a zip extension to open the embedded archive. Thanks Terry, that worked. Frank, nice update the album tracks are now sorted correctly. One small cosmetic improvement could be to line up the least

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-01-27 Thread Kyle
SilverRS8;262805 Wrote: CHANGED Automatic Various Artist detection. No need for the compilation folder specification ! It has been removed Frank WHOA!!! You mean now that I've changed my entire file system, you went and eliminated the need? ;-) -- Kyle

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-01-27 Thread ModelCitizen
Kyle;263071 Wrote: WHOA!!! You mean now that I've changed my entire file system, you went and eliminated the need? ;-) Yup, that's how I felt too... :-) MC -- ModelCitizen Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. Transporter Bryston 4B ST PMC OB1s SB3 NAIM NAC 102 +

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-01-27 Thread SilverRS8
Kyle;263071 Wrote: WHOA!!! You mean now that I've changed my entire file system, you went and eliminated the need? ;-) *BLUSHING* Uhmm I think so :-) Point is; I managed to create a query in which SC returns all albums including the Various artist albums. I have a few albums on which one

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-01-27 Thread SilverRS8
ModelCitizen;263074 Wrote: Yup, that's how I felt too... :-) MC Sorry for all harm caused :-) Uhm can I still hide behind; 'but it is still a beta' please? Let me know how it works for you Frank -- SilverRS8 Author of

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-01-27 Thread SilverRS8
tamanaco;263026 Wrote: Thanks Terry, that worked. Frank, nice update the album tracks are now sorted correctly. One small cosmetic improvement could be to line up the least significant digit of the track names. _9 - trackname (_ = space) 10 - trackname Instead of 9 - trackname

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-01-27 Thread SilverRS8
terry;262996 Wrote: Tamanaco, Looks like it's an archive within an archive; just add a zip extension to open the embedded archive. Frank, With RC3 I'm now getting a non-zero error message; hope it means more to you! Hi Terry, Can you disable line 489 in the AlbumCatalogCreator-V1.hta

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-01-27 Thread terry
Frank, Just to be sure, the line I commented out was the rs.close as shown in the following code fragment: ' == FUNCTION == ' Execute query and fill Album array '

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-01-26 Thread SilverRS8
Hi all, I have attached the RC3 version of ACC. I couldn't post if to my website as I have no FTP support from my long weekend off location. RCS contains the following changes; CHANGED Automatic Various Artist detection. No need for the compilation folder specification ! It has been

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-01-26 Thread tamanaco
Frank, I think there is something wrong with the .zip file you attached. After I decompress it I endup with file called acc-v1-RC3. I click on it and nothing happens. -- tamanaco tamanaco's Profile:

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-01-21 Thread MuckleEck
Frank and Schatzy, I have changed the login for squeezecenter to use a login that has the drives mappedall working now...many thanks -- MuckleEck Alasdair 3 SB3s - AudioEngine 2 - Cambridge Audio 640R - Mordaunt Short

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-01-20 Thread MuckleEck
Shatzy, It seems that the drive mapping works if squeezecenter/slimserver is run at login and makes use of a users account information to colelct the mapping info...I run SC as a service and it doesn't see the mapping. I am using a thexus 2100 NAS -- MuckleEck Alasdair 3 SB3s - AudioEngine

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-01-20 Thread terry
Hello, I'm perplexed since the ODBC System DSN tests OK (via the ODBC Data Source Administrator) and the entire SQL command string (copied from the ACC.log) succeeds with the MySQL Query Browser but the ACC script itself fails with an error 0. My system config: Windows XP x64 SP2 (O/S on C:,

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-01-20 Thread schatzy
MuckleEck;260808 Wrote: Shatzy, It seems that the drive mapping works if squeezecenter/slimserver is run at login and makes use of a users account information to colelct the mapping info...I run SC as a service and it doesn't see the mapping. I am using a thexus 2100 NAS MuckleEck, I

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-01-20 Thread SilverRS8
terry;260819 Wrote: Hello, I'm perplexed since the ODBC System DSN tests OK (via the ODBC Data Source Administrator) and the entire SQL command string (copied from the ACC.log) succeeds with the MySQL Query Browser but the ACC script itself fails with an error 0. The error 0 reporting is

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-01-20 Thread SilverRS8
MuckleEck;260808 Wrote: Shatzy, It seems that the drive mapping works if squeezecenter/slimserver is run at login and makes use of a users account information to colelct the mapping info...I run SC as a service and it doesn't see the mapping. I am using a thexus 2100 NAS The service

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-01-19 Thread SilverRS8
'Ur[s Wrote: uS;260443']it looks pretty and does a job i've been interested in having done for some time well done to all and to SilverRS8, of course, in particular thank you Always good to hear positive feedback. Keeps me focused on improving it. It is actually quiet easy to change ACC to

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-01-18 Thread SilverRS8
To solve the track sorting problem with tracks with other artists featuring, I have to change quiet a lot of the query code. Actually I have to split the query into returning all the results as it does now, the process them and determine if it is to be marked as Various album or not. I will also

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-01-18 Thread schatzy
MuckleEck;259785 Wrote: Schatzy Frank, I have played around with things and found the following:- 1. I change the SS to log on as user and then use x:\music as the folder, SS still stored everything in the database as \\n2100\itunes\music...so no joy there What brand of NAS do you

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-01-18 Thread Richard Scales
] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer To solve the track sorting problem with tracks with other artists featuring, I have to change quiet a lot of the query code. Actually I have to split the query into returning all the results as it does now, the process them and determine

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-01-18 Thread SilverRS8
Just to let you know; i'm looking into the possibility to add NAS support to ACC by adding the option to enter the path to the NAS and the drive letter used in windows so ACC can do the substitution automatically and find the albumcovers like it is supposted to. Frank -- SilverRS8

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-01-17 Thread Diana Artemis
SilverRS8 wrote: The opening of the file in IE is actually hardcoded for two reasons; 1. everybody has IE installed I wouldn't say that in the company of people using free software (e.g. the GNU/Linux OS)! ;-) ___ discuss mailing list

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-01-17 Thread SilverRS8
Diana Artemis;259640 Wrote: SilverRS8 wrote: The opening of the file in IE is actually hardcoded for two reasons; 1. everybody has IE installed I wouldn't say that in the company of people using free software (e.g. the GNU/Linux OS)! ;-) True. But (maybe sadly) ACC is writtin in

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-01-17 Thread MuckleEck
schatzy;259347 Wrote: MuckleEck, Please try and select just one of the album folders in your that has less than 50 tracks (if you have one) I.E. y:\music\v\various artists\album And try to run ACC again, then run it on a folder that has more than 150 tracks and report back if

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-01-17 Thread SilverRS8
MuckleEck;259647 Wrote: Schatzy, I ran various scenarios last night as follows:- 1. Reverted to another machine and installed Slimserver from the website, asked it to scan just one directory of tracks (mixture of MP3 and FLAC) with no album with more than 20 songs, then ran ACC no

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-01-17 Thread MuckleEck
Frank, SS is on a laptop (for testing) SC on a desktop (primary) all music stored on a NAS On the desktop with SC running the URL in the MySQL database looks like

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-01-17 Thread SilverRS8
MuckleEck;259647 Wrote: Schatzy, I ran various scenarios last night as follows:- 1. Reverted to another machine and installed Slimserver from the website, asked it to scan just one directory of tracks (mixture of MP3 and FLAC) with no album with more than 20 songs, then ran ACC no

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-01-17 Thread SilverRS8
MuckleEck;259658 Wrote: Frank, SS is on a laptop (for testing) SC on a desktop (primary) all music stored on a NAS On the desktop with SC running the URL in the MySQL database looks like

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-01-17 Thread schatzy
Diana Artemis;259640 Wrote: SilverRS8 wrote: The opening of the file in IE is actually hardcoded for two reasons; 1. everybody has IE installed I wouldn't say that in the company of people using free software (e.g. the GNU/Linux OS)! ;-) Diana, Maybe you should have read through

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-01-17 Thread SilverRS8
Just to clearify things up because I think there is a miss understanding here. ACC does not have a external browser requirement. It generates plain text files which happen to have the .html extension. It can be opened with IE or Firefox (as this was fixed in the last version). It also creates a

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-01-17 Thread tamanaco
SilverRS8;259631 Wrote: Thx, Tamanaco for your feedback that it now works for you. You were still my list because you still had some issues. The font size thing is indeed what Schatzy described. Actually applications can't handle the larger font size very well. They are all designed for

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-01-17 Thread schatzy
to: tamanaco, Glad to be of assistance. To: MuckleEck I will be borrowing a NAS with music on it this weekend to do some other testing for SilverRS8. If you are still having problems after going through Phil's posts let me know and I will try to figure out a senario for you that will work

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-01-17 Thread MuckleEck
Frank, Now that I have it working I have a request. I use a customDB setting in my tags that allows me to sort the music by who owns it in the family (me, wife, kids etc) How easy would it be to add an extra sort criteria that can be customised? The heading in the MySQL database is value

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-01-17 Thread SilverRS8
MuckleEck;259791 Wrote: Frank, Now that I have it working I have a request. I use a customDB setting in my tags that allows me to sort the music by who owns it in the family (me, wife, kids etc) How easy would it be to add an extra sort criteria that can be customised? The heading

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-01-17 Thread MuckleEck
Schatzy Frank, I have played around with things and found the following:- 1. I change the SS to log on as user and then use x:\music as the folder, SS still stored everything in the database as \\n2100\itunes\music...so no joy there 2. I copied all my music onto an external USB drive. Attached

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-01-17 Thread schatzy
MuckleEck;259791 Wrote: Frank, Now that I have it working I have a request. I use a customDB setting in my tags that allows me to sort the music by who owns it in the family (me, wife, kids etc) How easy would it be to add an extra sort criteria that can be customised? The heading

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-01-17 Thread MuckleEck
Frank, I shall have a play with the replace() caommand tomorrow Shatzy, It worked through the USB only. I suspect that there may be an issue wither with the drive mapping (as discussed with Frank above) or the speed at which the data can be recovered from the NAS, not sure. My network is all

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-01-16 Thread SilverRS8
Problems should be fixed now and will be tested by Schatzy prior to posting them again (learned my lesson) :) Frank -- SilverRS8 Author of AlbumCatalogCreator for SlimServer

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-01-16 Thread schatzy
tamanaco, You should find the configuration file in the acc-v1-RC2 folder that is crated on unzipping the downloaded file. If you are not seeing it is may be hidden by windows. 1. open the folder with ACC in it. 2. click on tools (in the tool bar at the top) 3. click on folder options 4. click

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-01-16 Thread schatzy
Secret Squirrel, quoteAlso, I wonder why ACC accesses the internet./quote IE will always try to access the internet every time it is opened, whether you want it to or not. That is just the way the browser works normally. You could manually set it to not access the internet but then when you

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-01-16 Thread schatzy
Secret Squirrel;259099 Wrote: Also, I wonder why ACC accesses the internet. Overall, I happy with what I have. Thanks again, SS Secret Squirrel IE is normal set to try and connect to the internet normally. This can be changed (work off line mode)but then every time you go to use it

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-01-16 Thread tamanaco
SilverRS8;259165 Wrote: Hi all, Sorry for the problems caused. Frank Frank, everyone using beta software should be aware that issues like this will occur from time to time. No need to apologize. I'm amazed at how quickly you fix and add functionality to this thing. I appreciated all the

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-01-16 Thread tamanaco
schatzy;259274 Wrote: Did you get it to work? Schazy I removed it. I'm waiting for Frank to upload the next release. Thanks... -- tamanaco tamanaco's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4620

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-01-16 Thread schatzy
tamanaco;259267 Wrote: Thanks Schatzy... I run my systems so that I can see all the hidden files as an administrator. Frank said that the file is created when the script is executed. It is not in the zip file. I usually remove every trace of the previous version of any beta software from my

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-01-16 Thread tamanaco
schatzy;259254 Wrote: tamanaco, You should find the configuration file in the acc-v1-RC2 folder that is crated on unzipping the downloaded file. If you are not seeing it is may be hidden by windows. 1. open the folder with ACC in it. 2. click on tools (in the tool bar at the top) 3.

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-01-16 Thread Secret Squirrel
Secret Squirrel;258993 Wrote: Frank, You're amazing! I don't know how you're getting all of these things straightened out and added so quickly and maintain a normal life. I don't have any software consultants that work that fast (okay, one). I can't wait to get home tonight and try the

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-01-16 Thread SilverRS8
Just posted (http://www.vanholt.nl/acc/acc.htm) the RC2a version with the following changes: FIXEDProblem with script running slow message of RC2 and screen updates FIXEDWhen selected startingfolder or compilation folder containing a ' character the script stopped ADDED

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-01-16 Thread MuckleEck
Frank, This is an excellent program however I can't get it working... The new RC2a version starts ok but the script running slow message comes up after a few minutes. Looking at the log file, which is about 4M has hundreds (possibly thousands) of entries like STATUS : 15:23:34 ;Various

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-01-16 Thread Rick B .
Many thanks for this, Frank. I love it! I'm not happy, however, with the quality of my album covers. Most of them are thumbnails that I copied from Amazon.com. They are generally 115 x 115 pixels. They look quite fuzzy on screen and in print. Would I get better quality covers if I went with

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-01-16 Thread SilverRS8
MuckleEck;259327 Wrote: Frank, This is an excellent program however I can't get it working... The new RC2a version starts ok but the script running slow message comes up after a few minutes. Looking at the log file, which is about 4M has hundreds (possibly thousands) of entries like

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-01-16 Thread MuckleEck
Rick, try album art downloader http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=51896 Which trys various sites to get the images, I find that images between 300 and 500 pixels square look best. For covers that are impossible to find I resorted to scanning them in myself! --

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-01-16 Thread schatzy
MuckleEck;259333 Wrote: Frank, Config file is SF| G2E| CF|Y:\Music\V\Various Artists DT|True DG|False ACS|True APPS|True SB|1 Last message before all teh various artists messages were:- STATUS :WHERE INSTR(UCASE(tracks.url), 'FILE:///Y:/Music/V/Various%20Artists')

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-01-16 Thread MuckleEck
structure is as follows:- y:\music\v\various artists\album\track# artist - track name.xxx xxx is either FLAC or mp3 There are 120 albums in varius artists some with upto 200 tracks total of 3500 tracks Alasdair -- MuckleEck MuckleEck

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-01-16 Thread schatzy
MuckleEck;259343 Wrote: structure is as follows:- y:\music\v\various artists\album\track# artist - track name.xxx xxx is either FLAC or mp3 There are 120 albums in varius artists some with upto 200 tracks total of 3500 tracks Alasdair MuckleEck, Please try and select just one of

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-01-16 Thread Secret Squirrel
SilverRS8;259321 Wrote: Just posted (http://www.vanholt.nl/acc/acc.htm) the RC2a version with the following changes: FIXEDProblem with script running slow message of RC2 and screen updates FIXEDWhen selected startingfolder or compilation folder containing a ' character the

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-01-16 Thread schatzy
Secret Squirrel;259348 Wrote: Frank, I'll be happy to do that this evening, but won't get to it until about 8 EST. Sorry! Thanks, as always, for all of your work on this! SS Secret Squirrel I found i had to change the file association for .htm and .html to force it to use FireFox.

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-01-16 Thread tamanaco
SilverRS8;259321 Wrote: Just posted (http://www.vanholt.nl/acc/acc.htm) the RC2a version with the following changes: FIXEDProblem with script running slow message of RC2 and screen updates FIXEDWhen selected startingfolder or compilation folder containing a ' character the

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-01-16 Thread schatzy
tamanaco, The issue with the resizing the windows of ACC is due to your font size selection in Windows. I have been able to recreate this on my computer and would like you to check something. 1.right click anywhere on your desktop where there is not an icon 2. Click properties 3. Click the

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-01-16 Thread Secret Squirrel
schatzy;259350 Wrote: Secret Squirrel I found i had to change the file association for .htm and .html to force it to use FireFox. This worked for me, but let me know how it goes after you have tried it. Schatzy I just download RC2a. Before running it I checked by file associations

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-01-16 Thread schatzy
Secret Squirrel, So what you are saying is that it actually opened in FireFox but you still got a Zone Alarm message for IE. This is probably caused by the fact that ACC uses a function of IE/Outlook/Office that is designed for saving web pages and then viewing them off line. If this is the

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-01-16 Thread schatzy
Secret Squirrel, Can you check something. 1. Open you ACC folder 2. Open the AlbumCatalog folder Question - the htm or html files in that folder do they have an IE icon or a Firefox icon. Which icon is shown? Schatzy -- schatzy Kitchen - SB3 - Russound R235LS Amp - Russound SP-M8IM

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-01-16 Thread Secret Squirrel
schatzy;259589 Wrote: Secret Squirrel, Can you check something. 1. Open you ACC folder 2. Open the AlbumCatalog folder Question - the htm or html files in that folder do they have an IE icon or a Firefox icon. Which icon is shown? Schatzy Schatzy, I checked as you requested.

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-01-16 Thread SilverRS8
Secret Squirrel;259607 Wrote: Schatzy, I checked as you requested. All the files except the MHTML have the Firefox icon. The MHTML have an icon I don't recognize. (Whew, I thought I was checking the associations correctly ;) ) HTH, SS Hi Secret Squirrel, First of all thx for your

Re: [slim] Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

2008-01-16 Thread SilverRS8
tamanaco;259573 Wrote: Installed RC2a and the script ran without a hitch. All the album covers were found and displayed. The main problem that remains, in my case, is that not all the tracks are sorted correctly for all the albums. I'm trying to find out what's common with those albums whose

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