hi pedelar, pedaler Wrote: > Hello All... Been a SB user for many moons and have started to > experience a couple of extremely frustrating things after rebuilding, > compiling and sorting my library. > > I just finished getting my entire collection carefully archived and > tagged with album, artist, genre, etc. and I've got the newest version > of the server software and when I do a rescan, everything just gets > crazy. Some of the songs show up as No Genre and/or No Artist and/or > No Album which indicates to me that the tagging must be bad. I've > checked the tags (and retagged to test things) with a number of > different tagging programs (The GodFather, MediaMonkey, Moosic, > Winamp's tagger, etc.) and everything looks good. >
i think i know what's up with this, as i have run into it before. i've even posted here about it (No Album No Artist post). pedlar Wrote: > > ALL the files that show up as No Genre, etc. simply won't play and the > SB returns a "Can't Open File For:" error. I can play every single > file using Winamp, but Windows Media Player won't play them and I get > the Codec error. Additionally, iTunes won't import these same "No > Genre, Artist, Album" tracks and simply skips them. > the problem is most likely not with the tagging program. i think it's most likely in the "disconnect" between playlists and miusic on disc. i found that if i first tagged a bunch od cds, then added them to a playlist, and then later changed the tags and/or directories, that i'd get all the errors you're seeing. the root of the problem is that if slimserver is told to play a song, and the path to that song is no longer valid, slimserver just skips it with no message about why. of course, if you are not using playlists, perhaps this is barking up the wrong tree in the first place ... pedaler Wrote: > > I am beginning to think that the problem is a codec issue, but why can > Winamp (and Helium Music Manager which I've used to catalogue all > music) play these tracks and interpret the tags, but the SB and other > programs won't. I've converted (MP3-MP3) some of the songs to test > things and that seems to fix the problem, but I really don't want to > have to convert (literally), the 1000s of 'bad' songs. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated and would save me from tearing > out all my hair. > > Thanks much in advance... answering would be very hard to say without specific knowledge of what these various programs need and use - but, you might want to see if the playlist issue is what's up for you. if it is playlists, the easiet way i found to deal with it is to delete old playlists containg bad pointers to data, and then simply recreate them. you can edit them, but it is a real pain. hope this helps! best regards, -sherm -- shermoid "you are only young once, but you can be immature forever" "life is uncertain; eat dessert first" - anonymous please visit my mcintosh website: http://alumni.cse.ucsc.edu/~sherman ------------------------------------------------------------------------ shermoid's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=379 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18347 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
