While checking the song information displayed in the WEB interface for my AAC files, I noticed that there were some incosistencies. Sometimes the genre showed up as the artist, sometimes the album as the genre and some other things I can't summon from memory.
After spending some time adding print traces to some of the MP4 file parsing functions, it became apparent that the code was reading the file tags and duration properly. Still the information displayed was incorrect and the songs would not play due to "zero duration". The traces I added also seemed to indicate that the file was being read and parsed AFTER the error about the duration being zero. It occured to me that slimserver must be getting the bad information form the database. Why it later parses the actual file I don't know. So I ran a complete rescan of the database; selecting "Clear Library and Rescan Everything" in Server Settings/Rescan Music Library. Now it is displaying all the correct information for my AAC songs as well as playing them. Perhaps some changes in the database format for MP4 file information requires a full rebuild when upgrading slimserver from 6.0.x to 6.2.x. I was not aware of it. I hope this helps others that may have the same or similar problem. -- peace ^ ^ O O < \_/ -- floydm ------------------------------------------------------------------------ floydm's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=75 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19291 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
