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

2008-01-15 Thread SilverRS8
RiccardoR;258634 Wrote: Thanks to SilverRS8 for helping me: the error was in some part missing in IE6 on my server, doing all on my computer it was ok. But I have another question: most of my covers are embedded in mp3 files, there are only the flac's with separate cover.jpg. There is a

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

2008-01-15 Thread SilverRS8
I finally had some time to do some fixing and posted the RC2 release on www.vanholt.nl/acc/acc.htm Changes in RC2: FIXEDAlbum covers not correctly displayed when path contains special characters FIXEDWhen a starting or compilation folder is selected and Start was pressed the

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

2008-01-15 Thread Secret Squirrel
SilverRS8;258985 Wrote: I finally had some time to do some fixing and posted the RC2 release on www.vanholt.nl/acc/acc.htm Changes in RC2: FIXEDAlbum covers not correctly displayed when path contains special characters FIXEDWhen a starting or compilation folder is

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

2008-01-15 Thread tamanaco
SilverRS8;258985 Wrote: I finally had some time to do some fixing and posted the RC2 release on www.vanholt.nl/acc/acc.htm Changes in RC2: FIXEDAlbum covers not correctly displayed when path contains special characters FIXEDWhen a starting or compilation folder is

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

2008-01-15 Thread schatzy
Frank, I'm now getting the same error as tomanaco. Tried a few things in the script but was not able to get it to work. Will look at it more when i arrive home this evening. -- schatzy Kitchen - SB3 - Russound R235LS Amp - Russound SP-M8IM speakers in ceiling Main Stereo - SB3 - Nikko Beta

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

2008-01-15 Thread Secret Squirrel
schatzy;259059 Wrote: Frank, I'm now getting the same error as tomanaco. Tried a few things in the script but was not able to get it to work. Will look at it more when i arrive home this evening. I just ran release candidate 2 and it worked for me albiet with no background on the window

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

2008-01-15 Thread schatzy
tomanaco, I opened the ACC.cgf file in note padIt looks something like this SF|I:\MP3\J\Jackson, Michael\(1979) Off The Wall G2E| CF| Remove from the first line I:\MP3\J\Jackson, Michael\(1979) Off The Wall The file should then look like SF| G2E| CF| Save this and try running ACC-RC2. If

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

2008-01-15 Thread tamanaco
schatzy;259113 Wrote: tomanaco, I opened the ACC.cgf file in note pad. It looks something like this SF|I:\MP3\J\Jackson, Michael\(1979) Off The Wall G2E| CF| Remove from the first line I:\MP3\J\Jackson, Michael\(1979) Off The Wall The file should then look like SF| G2E| CF|

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

2008-01-14 Thread frold
SilverRS8;258276 Wrote: To create a PDF you either have to install Adobe Acrobat (this will also install a PDF printer) or a third party PDF printer (PDF995 is freeware I can recommand PDFcreator: http://www.pdfforge.org/products/pdfcreator -- frold Best regards, Frederik Frost

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

2008-01-14 Thread SumnerBoy
SilverRS8;258276 Wrote: No problems with album covers in Firefox anymore? Unfortunately yes - I still can't see the album art in Firefox, but assuming I can get this PDF printing to work with IE (which looks like it should be fine) I won't need to use Firefox. Thanks again. -- SumnerBoy

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

2008-01-14 Thread SilverRS8
schatzy;258392 Wrote: For those of you having problems with displaying ACC results in FireFox. FireFox does not have native support for .MHT files. These are proprietary to Microsoft applications. There was a MAF Extension written for FireFox 1.5 that would allow .MHT files to be

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

2008-01-14 Thread schatzy
For those of you having problems with displaying ACC results in FireFox. FireFox does not have native support for .MHT files. These are proprietary to Microsoft applications. There was a MAF Extension written for FireFox 1.5 that would allow .MHT files to be opened in FIreFox 1.5, but it has

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

2008-01-14 Thread schatzy
Frank, The real problem I beleive with IE6 more along the lines of A. if the file was produced by IE6 then no problem B. If file produce by another application the it must be in a very specific path structure. C. For unknown reasons it also has to do with the version of MS Office or Word. I

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

2008-01-14 Thread RiccardoR
Thanks to SilverRS8 for helping me: the error was in some part missing in IE6 on my server, doing all on my computer it was ok. But I have another question: most of my covers are embedded in mp3 files, there are only the flac's with separate cover.jpg. There is a method to extract album art (in

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

2008-01-14 Thread schatzy
RiccardoR, Mp3Tag should be able to do it for you. I personally have not used it but know of some other people that have done this, and they said it worked great. It can be found here http://www.mp3tag.de/en/. Schatzy -- schatzy Kitchen - SB3 - Russound R235LS Amp - Russound SP-M8IM

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

2008-01-13 Thread ModelCitizen
This is a wild shot in the dark but I'm now getting desperate. For some days SlimCenter 7 has been listing duplicate tracks in a large number of my albums. I'm trying to figure out what may have changed around the time this first started and the biggest change around this time was that I added

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

2008-01-13 Thread Phil Leigh
ModelCitizen;257869 Wrote: This is a wild shot in the dark but I'm now getting desperate. For some days SlimCenter 7 has been listing duplicate tracks in a large number of my albums. I'm trying to figure out what may have changed around the time this first started and the biggest change

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

2008-01-13 Thread frold
Well it doesnt seems to work on my system WinXP Squeezecenter 7.0 nightly build 11th of jan. mysql-connector-odbc-3.51.23-win32.zip even after a restart... Settings: Display tracks: yes Album cover size: normal Display genre: no Sort by: Album Folder containing various artists:

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

2008-01-13 Thread frold
there is 157 posts I havent read them -- frold Best regards, Frederik Frost Nielsen frold's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12395 View this thread:

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

2008-01-13 Thread SilverRS8
Just to let you know I'm working on RC2 which has some fixes. I can confirm the album cover issues some have posted and working on it. Also Schatzy is doing some testing. Hope to post it somewhere in this week. As for the issue of Frold; SC7 isn't officially supported yet although it works

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

2008-01-13 Thread ModelCitizen
Cheers Phil. Thanks for your input Phil. I have disabled all plugins. I have removed the SQL ODBC driver. I have deleted all recycle bin stuff on all drives... but still I have duplicates. Diagnosing is incredibly frustrating. SC7 takes 2 hours to rescan my 1500 albums. Although I've created a

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

2008-01-13 Thread SumnerBoy
Hi, firstly I would like to say thanks a heap for a great tool. It is something I have been looking for/wanting to do for a long time. I can successfully process my music collection and get the album catalog output files. Viewing them in IE I can see the album art but viewing in Firefox I

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

2008-01-13 Thread SilverRS8
SumnerBoy;258125 Wrote: Hi, firstly I would like to say thanks a heap for a great tool. It is something I have been looking for/wanting to do for a long time. Thx for your appreciation !! SumnerBoy;258125 Wrote: I can successfully process my music collection and get the album catalog

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

2008-01-13 Thread SumnerBoy
SilverRS8;258165 Wrote: Yep. Its on my 'fix list'. Firefox is a bit more strict in holding to standards then IE is. Ok great - I will keep an eye out for the next release. SilverRS8;258165 Wrote: When this problem is solved, you can ofcourse create your PDF file by just printing to the

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

2008-01-13 Thread SilverRS8
SumnerBoy;258269 Wrote: I just tried this again and now it seems to be working (blushing). Not sure what happened there, as I tried it quite a few times before posting this question! Nevermind, it is now allowing me to print in both IE and Firefox. I am unable to work out how to print to

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

2008-01-11 Thread SilverRS8
parubini;257161 Wrote: Frank Have you considered if you will be able to include my suggestions for handling mapped paths in a future release of ACC ? From the very complimentary comments that you have received I could imagine that you could have a long development programme should you

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

2008-01-11 Thread parubini
Frank Have you considered if you will be able to include my suggestions for handling mapped paths in a future release of ACC ? From the very complimentary comments that you have received I could imagine that you could have a long development programme should you wish ! Perhaps you might consider

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

2008-01-11 Thread parubini
SilverRS8;257164 Wrote: Do you think the ACC user base is already large enough to take it more serious and do it the sourceforge way? I have no overview of users really using the tool already because I have no download stats so judging from the forum thread there are not really that many

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

2008-01-11 Thread Kyle
SilverRS8;257124 Wrote: The .MHT file does not populate with album art, but the .HTML file does. Is there a reason for this? The .MHT file should be identical to the .html file. I'll also take a look at this one. Frank The appears to be a problem with Firefox. When I open the .MHT

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

2008-01-10 Thread ModelCitizen
Wow! This is exactly what I've been wanting for the last three years! It's brilliant. All kudos to Frank and thank you very much indeed, I installed it and the connector in seconds and had a catalogue in a minute or two. Superb. There are only two things that make it anything less but

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

2008-01-10 Thread tamanaco
SilverRS8;256687 Wrote: I 'll look into it. I think Album artist is just another contributors role, from database point of view. Would you like a seperate album artist vs Artist sorting or must Albumartist be included when selecting sort by Artist? Most of the mp3 tags have empty

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

2008-01-10 Thread parubini
RiccardoR;256605 Wrote: I have my server with two drive C: (is a little partition with WINXP and Slimerver) and D: (the large partition with my music collection), but my PC is another machine on the network. With the new version of ACC (for mapped drive) it stop with this error: error

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

2008-01-10 Thread Kyle
Some questions: The .html long output comes up in IE and populates with pictures, but the other long output comes up in Firefox (default browser) and does not populate. Why is this? I have two covers (all cover art is titled cover.jpg) that will not load into either long output. They work

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

2008-01-10 Thread Phil Leigh
Kyle;256948 Wrote: Some questions: The .html long output comes up in IE and populates with pictures, but the other long output comes up in Firefox (default browser) and does not populate. Why is this? I have two covers (all cover art is titled cover.jpg) that will not load into either

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

2008-01-10 Thread SilverRS8
Kyle;256948 Wrote: Some questions: The .html long output comes up in IE and populates with pictures, but the other long output comes up in Firefox (default browser) and does not populate. Why is this? I have two covers (all cover art is titled cover.jpg) that will not load into either

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

2008-01-10 Thread SilverRS8
tamanaco;256761 Wrote: Frank, I'd like and appreciate a separated Album Artist sort as my Folder structure is built using this tag instead of the Artist. I use the artist tag for individual tracks. I did this to avoid having a large Various Artist folder. The reason for this is that I used

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

2008-01-10 Thread SilverRS8
ModelCitizen;256696 Wrote: Wow! This is exactly what I've been wanting for the last three years! It's brilliant. All kudos to Frank and thank you very much indeed, I installed it and the connector in seconds and had a catalogue in a minute or two. Superb. Thx for your great reaction.

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

2008-01-10 Thread Kyle
SilverRS8;256978 Wrote: Like Phil suggest probably a special character in path or filename. Can you let me know which special characters are used? You need to look at the full path to the file. One album name has an accent mark, and one artist's name has an umlaut. I guess these are causing

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

2008-01-10 Thread SilverRS8
Kyle;257015 Wrote: One album name has an accent mark, and one artist's name has an umlaut. I guess these are causing problems? I think so. Thanks for the feedback. I'll look into the code to if this is the problem and can be fixed. The .MHT file does not populate with album art, but the

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

2008-01-09 Thread parubini
parubini;255929 Wrote: Hi, I have already made some mod's to ACC-RC1 to allow a mapped drive to work, using a SlimServer hosted on another (Linux) machine. Within the ACC script it is necessary to swap the slimserver local path to files (as stored in the DB) with the mapped drive as seen

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

2008-01-09 Thread tamanaco
Frank, as you start to implement sorting options, please add [Album Artist] as a sorting option within Albums. When the list is created one of the artists from my compilation albums is picked as the author of the album. Btw, I just tried RC1 and it still misses the album covers as before.

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

2008-01-09 Thread RiccardoR
I have my server with two drive C: (is a little partition with WINXP and Slimerver) and D: (the large partition with my music collection), but my PC is another machine on the network. With the new version of ACC (for mapped drive) it stop with this error: error connecting to Slimserver database.

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

2008-01-09 Thread SilverRS8
tamanaco;256585 Wrote: Frank, as you start to implement sorting options, please add [Album Artist] as a sorting option within Albums. When the list is created one of the artists from my compilation albums is picked as the author of the album. Btw, I just tried RC1 and it still misses the

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

2008-01-09 Thread SilverRS8
RiccardoR;256605 Wrote: I have my server with two drive C: (is a little partition with WINXP and Slimerver) and D: (the large partition with my music collection), but my PC is another machine on the network. With the new version of ACC (for mapped drive) it stop with this error: error

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

2008-01-08 Thread SilverRS8
tamanaco;255753 Wrote: Lots of changes around here. I was gone for a couple days and we got the Duet and ACC is up to beta 5! I just tested beta 5 and I'm still having issues with album art not showing up for albums whose Genre, Artist or Album name have extended characters in their path.

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

2008-01-08 Thread SilverRS8
Siduhe;255676 Wrote: Caveat - I have a lot of compilation albums (60%) so I rarely sort by artist. However, I've got quite a few albums that begin with The. I have SC set to ignore The when sorting, but I actually think I would like Album Catalogue Creator to follow the precise format

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

2008-01-08 Thread SilverRS8
schatzy;255709 Wrote: SilverRS8, Thanks for all the great work over the week end on this. Phil, Siduhe, Thanks for all the work you guys have done also. THE I feel should be user selection for the artist not the Album title. But then again what about THE THE. As Phil has stated

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

2008-01-08 Thread SilverRS8
nspindel;255790 Wrote: I did some research on the threads and figured out what I needed to do in order to get the mapped drives to work. However this then triggered the script running will cause the system to run slow error from Internet Explorer that has been widely reported. I saw a post

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

2008-01-08 Thread nspindel
I think I got that end sorted out. There was a thread that documented what I needed to do to get drive mappings to network shares to work. So now I'm able to set SC to look at M:\MusicLibrary rather than \\terastation\share\music\MusicLibrary. The problem now is that once I made that change, I

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

2008-01-08 Thread SilverRS8
nspindel;255889 Wrote: I think I got that end sorted out. There was a thread that documented what I needed to do to get drive mappings to network shares to work. So now I'm able to set SC to look at M:\MusicLibrary rather than \\terastation\share\music\MusicLibrary. The problem now is

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

2008-01-08 Thread tamanaco
SilverRS8;255842 Wrote: I'll fix this today and post an update. Thanks... I'll be looking for it. SilverRS8;255842 Wrote: The sorting is done by mySQL. Getting the sorting into the code, as first guess, would be a lot of work. Personally I have al my tracks numbered without a leading

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

2008-01-08 Thread SilverRS8
parubini;255929 Wrote: Hi, I have already made some mod's to ACC-RC1 to allow a mapped drive to work, using a SlimServer hosted on another (Linux) machine. Within the ACC script it is necessary to swap the slimserver local path to files (as stored in the DB) with the mapped drive as seen

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

2008-01-08 Thread parubini
Hi, I have already made some mod's to ACC-RC1 to allow a mapped drive to work, using a SlimServer hosted on another (Linux) machine. Within the ACC script it is necessary to swap the slimserver local path to files (as stored in the DB) with the mapped drive as seen by ACC - in my case from

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

2008-01-08 Thread Phil Leigh
tamanaco;255753 Wrote: I noticed that the order of the tracks for albums with more than 10 Tracks is not ordered. All my tracks are named xx. trackname.flac. Where xx = 01-99. Hmmm - I have lost of albums with 10 tracks - some with 90! and they all sort fine. My track files are

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

2008-01-08 Thread tamanaco
Phil Leigh;255955 Wrote: Hmmm - I have lost of albums with 10 tracks - some with 90! and they all sort fine. My track files are named slightly differently: 01 - trackname.FLAC, 02 - trackname.FLAC. However, that shouldn't matter because the script uses the track number tag in the the SC/SS

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

2008-01-08 Thread schatzy
tamanaco, Are you using SC7 or SS 6.5.4? I have many albums with 10 tracks and they seem to work fine. I have found that there are many differences in the way SC7 and SC work with special characters including the . if your track numbers have any inconsistency especially if there happens to

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

2008-01-08 Thread tamanaco
schatzy;256018 Wrote: tamanaco, Are you using SC7 or SS 6.5.4? I have many albums with 10 tracks and they seem to work fine. I have found that there are many differences in the way SC7 and SC work with special characters including the . if your track numbers have any inconsistency

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

2008-01-08 Thread schatzy
tamanaco, I suspect you are using some form of windows operating system, Which one? If i have read your earlier posts correctly the you are using a period . between the track number and the title. Is this correct? If it is that would be very un-standard as that causes all operating systems

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

2008-01-07 Thread Phil Leigh
Frank - this might be the basis for solving the The problem... SELECT IF ( LEFT( title, 4)='The ', SUBSTRING(artist FROM 4), artist ) AS artist_sort_name FROM table ORDER BY artist_sort_name or something like that... I'll try it later - my MySql is not strong. regards Phil -- Phil Leigh

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

2008-01-07 Thread Mongo
I also had the error 0 return, after setting up mysql successfuly. I ran the album catalogue program in it's original zipped format from my desktop and it worked. Maybe that is a clue as to the real problem. -- Mongo

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

2008-01-07 Thread slimkid
Would it be possible to extend the functionality to include the ability to use album artist/band tag where the album is a compilation - in a similar way how SS does it right now? thks -- slimkid The sound stage will open up, bass will tighten and the imaging will improve. DVD performance

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

2008-01-07 Thread SilverRS8
Kyle;254969 Wrote: Wow! This looks great! Any way to get a complete tutorial on getting this to work with SB 6.5*? Phil, is your post (8:02 today) fairly complete on everything that needs to be done? It should really be that easy as installing the ODBC driver and than run the script. For

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

2008-01-07 Thread SilverRS8
slimkid;255560 Wrote: Would it be possible to extend the functionality to include the ability to use album artist/band tag where the album is a compilation - in a similar way how SS does it right now? thks Sure. That is the change that Phil (with code snippet) has done and how it should

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

2008-01-07 Thread Phil Leigh
Frank - cracked the The problem... two blocks of code changes: 1): sQBase = select IF ( LEFT( contributors.name, 4)='The ', SUBSTRING(contributors.name FROM 5), contributors.name) AS sort_name, _ CONVERT(contributors.name USING utf8) as artist,CONVERT(albums.title USING utf8) as

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

2008-01-07 Thread SilverRS8
slimkid;255560 Wrote: Would it be possible to extend the functionality to include the ability to use album artist/band tag where the album is a compilation - in a similar way how SS does it right now? thks I just posted Release candidate 1 on http://www.vanholt.nl/acc/acc.htm (i think it

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

2008-01-07 Thread SilverRS8
Phil Leigh;255590 Wrote: Frank - cracked the The problem... two blocks of code changes: 1): sQBase = select IF ( LEFT( contributors.name, 4)='The ', SUBSTRING(contributors.name FROM 5), contributors.name) AS sort_name, _ CONVERT(contributors.name USING utf8) as

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

2008-01-07 Thread Phil Leigh
SilverRS8;255628 Wrote: Hi Phil, Very good job done!! I look into it later and do some testing but very good to know that it can be done in a query. Personally i'm still strugling if I like 'The' to be stripped or not when sorting because I think I will look for bands at the 'T' when

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

2008-01-07 Thread Siduhe
SilverRS8;255628 Wrote: Personally i'm still strugling if I like 'The' to be stripped or not when sorting because I think I will look for bands at the 'T' when searching for e.g. 'The Killers'. Maybe other thread readers can give their opinion on this too? Caveat - I have a lot of

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

2008-01-07 Thread Phil Leigh
Siduhe;255676 Wrote: Caveat - I have a lot of compilation albums (60%) so I rarely sort by artist. However, I've got quite a few albums that begin with The. I have SC set to ignore The when sorting, but I actually think I would like Album Catalogue Creator to follow the precise format

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

2008-01-07 Thread schatzy
SilverRS8, Thanks for all the great work over the week end on this. Phil, Siduhe, Thanks for all the work you guys have done also. THE I feel should be user selection for the artist not the Album title. But then again what about THE THE. As Phil has stated it will always be a problem. I had

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

2008-01-07 Thread RalphO
SilverRS8;255182 Wrote: The server should be specified and can either be 127.0.0.1 or localhost. What you can also do is try to connect using the mySQL query browser at http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/gui-tools/5.0.html You can use this to connect to the mySQL DB using a more ituitive

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

2008-01-07 Thread tamanaco
Lots of changes around here. I was gone for a couple days and we got the Duet and ACC is up to beta 5! I just tested beta 5 and I'm still having issues with album art not showing up for albums whose Genre, Artist or Album name have extended characters in their path. For example all of the Albums

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

2008-01-07 Thread nspindel
Hi Frank - Great idea for a script. I'm running it on my server with SC 6.5.4. It runs to the point where it finds all of the music, but I don't have any cover art displayed. I think I may know the issue, just not sure what to do about it. My music is all stored on a TeraStation, and I have

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

2008-01-07 Thread RalphO
Phil Leigh;255126 Wrote: Go to Start - Run type CMD type regsvr32 msdadc.dll (and repeat for each .dll file) Then reboot! This Phil I tried this but found that there were some dll files that I could not re-register. The message said that the dll file loaded but the DIRewgister entry

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

2008-01-07 Thread RalphO
Mongo;255545 Wrote: I also had the error 0 return, after setting up mysql successfuly ( and testing it). I had downloaded and extracted the program to a folder in program files. It would not work. I tried running the album catalogue program in it's original zipped format from my desktop and

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

2008-01-07 Thread nspindel
I did some research on the threads and figured out what I needed to do in order to get the mapped drives to work. However this then triggered the script running will cause the system to run slow error from Internet Explorer that has been widely reported. I saw a post saying to try running Beta

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

2008-01-06 Thread Phil Leigh
Hello - good news! I realised my own stupid mistake which was to leave tracing enabled on the ODBC connector...so the disk access I was experiencing was in fact Windows writing to the log file!. Now tracing is off and the script does indeed work quickly. Further good news...because the script

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

2008-01-06 Thread SilverRS8
Phil Leigh;254920 Wrote: Hello - good news! I realised my own stupid mistake which was to leave tracing enabled on the ODBC connector...so the disk access I was experiencing was in fact Windows writing to the log file!. Now tracing is off and the script does indeed work quickly. Further

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

2008-01-06 Thread Phil Leigh
SilverRS8;254930 Wrote: Thx Phil for the update and good to hear everything works. Database Tracing can indeed have a high impact! Is the output also good? I'm currently installing SC in a VM and if I like the current state I will move to SC also and then start making ACC compatible with

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

2008-01-06 Thread Kyle
Wow! This looks great! Any way to get a complete tutorial on getting this to work with SB 6.5*? Phil, is your post (8:02 today) fairly complete on everything that needs to be done? -- Kyle Kyle's Profile:

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

2008-01-06 Thread Phil Leigh
Kyle;254969 Wrote: Wow! This looks great! Any way to get a complete tutorial on getting this to work with SB 6.5*? Phil, is your post (8:02 today) fairly complete on everything that needs to be done? Kyle - to be honest I'm not sure and I'm no expert on this! My post was related to SC7

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

2008-01-06 Thread Secret Squirrel
Frank, I just downloaded and ran beta 5 on SC 7.0 with no problems. The results are fantastic in my opinion as I only have a straight vanilla database. I really wanted a printed catalog for family and friends. Thanks for all the good work, amazingly fast turn-around on changes/corrections, and

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

2008-01-06 Thread SilverRS8
Phil Leigh;254962 Wrote: Frank - yes the output is excellent - many thanks for all of your hard work. I've made a couple of tweaks... 1) For compilations - but not normal albums it's nice to have the artist next to the track 2) for the durations, I've removed the leading zero which makes

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

2008-01-06 Thread Phil Leigh
Frank - I don't think you can do this directly within the SQL query. You would have to parse the result set to strip out the leading noise words and then re-sort. Regards Phil -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call

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

2008-01-06 Thread RalphO
Phil Leigh;254920 Wrote: To Ralph... To be honest I'm not sure what I did to get things working. i did install this: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=6c050fe3-c795-4b7d-b037-185d0506396cdisplaylang=en and then re-installed the mysql odbc connector to test

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

2008-01-06 Thread RalphO
I can report that I have managed to get the ODBC connection to work. I fiddled around a bit and what finally worked was that I ttok out the ip address of my server and just left it blank (I guess that it uses the default. Anyway that gave me the wonderful message success a connection was made.

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

2008-01-06 Thread Phil Leigh
RalphO;255071 Wrote: I can report that I have managed to get the ODBC connection to work. I fiddled around a bit and what finally worked was that I ttok out the ip address of my server and just left it blank (I guess that it uses the default. Anyway that gave me the wonderful message

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

2008-01-06 Thread SilverRS8
RalphO;255071 Wrote: I can report that I have managed to get the ODBC connection to work. I fiddled around a bit and what finally worked was that I ttok out the ip address of my server and just left it blank (I guess that it uses the default. Anyway that gave me the wonderful message

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

2008-01-05 Thread SilverRS8
Richard Scales;254403 Wrote: Just tried the latest version - superb - thanks again for all the hard work. Please could you confirm the operation of the 'Various Artists' function? Would I be right in thinking that if I collated all my 'Various Artist' style albums into one folder,

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

2008-01-05 Thread Chautara
Fantastic utility - it's just what I've been looking for! Beta 4 solves all the problems I was having with album art but one problem remains. My SS database contains both MP3 and WMA files which SS handles perfectly well in terms of displaying Tag details, however ACC will not display the Artist

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

2008-01-05 Thread Siduhe
agentsmith;254371 Wrote: I downloaded and installed the MySQL connector into my Vista machine. When trying to run the script, the GUI comes up, when I pressed Start, I got the error: - An error occured while connection to the database, the error data is

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

2008-01-05 Thread SilverRS8
Chautara;254430 Wrote: Fantastic utility - it's just what I've been looking for! Beta 4 solves all the problems I was having with album art but one problem remains. My SS database contains both MP3 and WMA files which SS handles perfectly well in terms of displaying Tag details, however

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

2008-01-05 Thread Phil Leigh
agentsmith;254371 Wrote: I downloaded and installed the MySQL connector into my Vista machine. When trying to run the script, the GUI comes up, when I pressed Start, I got the error: - An error occured while connection to the database, the error data is

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

2008-01-05 Thread Chewie
I’ve just tried it again using acc-v1-b4 and the script now runs for 20 Seconds before I get the announcement. Stop running this script? a script on this page is causing internet explorer to run slowly if it continues to run your computer may become unresponsive SlimServer Version: 6.5.4 -

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

2008-01-05 Thread Phil Leigh
Some encouraging progress: Using Beta 4, I uninstalled the MS MDAC components and reinstalled. The script is now working! Obviously the ODBC drivers were not registered properly for some reason on my system. However, it does take a VERY long time to run...I can hear the hard disk thrashing. (2500

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

2008-01-05 Thread SilverRS8
Phil Leigh;254552 Wrote: Some encouraging progress: Using Beta 4, I uninstalled the MS MDAC components and reinstalled. The script is now working! Obviously the ODBC drivers were not registered properly for some reason on my system. However, it does take a VERY long time to run...I can hear

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

2008-01-05 Thread Phil Leigh
Sorry - that was a stupid observation by me...of course it is the C:\ drive that is being thrashed because that is where the SlimServer database is - doh! -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal...SB3+Stontronics PSU -

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

2008-01-05 Thread Phil Leigh
SilverRS8;254563 Wrote: I will create additional debug logging in the next Beta to see which function is causing the delay. If you can send me that logfile I hope I can solve the problem. But again SC is not supported yet so I won't get into that much deeper until the debugging on SS has

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

2008-01-05 Thread SilverRS8
Chewie;254509 Wrote: I’ve just tried it again using acc-v1-b4 and the script now runs for 20 Seconds before I get the announcement. Stop running this script? a script on this page is causing internet explorer to run slowly if it continues to run your computer may become unresponsive

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

2008-01-05 Thread SilverRS8
Chautara;254430 Wrote: Fantastic utility - it's just what I've been looking for! Beta 4 solves all the problems I was having with album art but one problem remains. My SS database contains both MP3 and WMA files which SS handles perfectly well in terms of displaying Tag details, however

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