MikeDelta;532449 Wrote: > That worked great! The error message disappeared and the catalog was > created. It's funny that something unrelated to the date has this > effect. > > About this drive letter: > > My Squeezebox server runs on a different machine (running ubuntu linux) > and usually there are no drives letter mapped to the music directories. > When I first tried you program (I believe it was version 1.3) I > attempted the remote server option but I couldn't get it to run. Then I > mapped the m: drive to one of the music directories, entered the drive > letter and I got a result. Since then I map this drive letter just for > the purpose of creating an up-to-date catalog. > > The funny thing is that the drive letter only points to the mp3 > directory while the catalog is complete with flac,wma,aac,ogg and mp3 > albums. > > So, I'm wondering, do I need the drive letter at all? And if I do, how > come the catalog is complete with the other formats including the > coverart? > > I can't remove the driveletter in the 'remote server/NAS options' > screen, the help text onscreen says I need the drive letter but the > 'usage and configuration' information on your homepage doesn't mention > the drive letter at all. Did I miss some information?
The drive letter and full remote physical path are required when using a starting folder but I made it mandatory. SBS stores paths to tracks in the database in this format: /srv/myshare/Audio/Albums/Artist/30 Seconds To Mars/A Beautifull Lie/01 - 30 seconds to mars - A beautiful lie - Attack.mp3 My directory tree is structured like this: /srv/myshare/Audio/Albums/Artist /srv/myshare/Audio/Albums/Compilation /srv/myshare/Audio/Albums/Soundtracks /srv/myshare/Audio/Seperate tracks/bla bla In SBS I have specified /srv/myshare as the music directory. When I would run ACC without a starting folder specified ACC would include seperate tracks and many other unwanted stuff. So, I use a starting folder to tell ACC to only look at say /srv/myshare/Audio/Albums/Artist In the query ACC performs against the database, ACC performs something like: "Get all tracks in the database where the path includes the string X" To specify string X you'd at least need a drive letter. Say you specify drive letter M which is mapped to the music share. The music share is actually the /srv/myshare folder on the remote server. If the starting folder would be M:\Albums\Artist the X in could be \Albums\Artist (the drive letter and collon are stripped) however that could be ambiguous as in another folder this string may also occur. To make X absolutely unique the Full remote physical path is required (here: /srv/myshare). This string is concatenated with \Albums\Artist to become /srv/myshare/Albums/Artists. The concatenated string will be used in the DB query for Starting Folder filter purpose. Hope this still makes any sense and it answers your question? Frank -- SilverRS8 Author of -'AlbumCatalogCreator' (http://acc.vanholt.nl)- for SqueezeCenter '_' (http://www.badkamerpech.nl) SlimServer. 2xSB3, 1xDuet, 1xRadio, 1xiPhone iPeng, Ubuntu NAS + SBS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SilverRS8's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12818 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74452 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
