Robert57 wrote: > Thanks for all your helpful thoughts and advice. I think you've found > the key. I shortened the album title dramatically, removing "featuring > Cannonball Adderley and Art Farmer (xld)". Then I lengthened the track > title for track 09 to the accurate, full text, as shown below, and it > plays fine when I select it from my Music Folder! > > Shortened title which I earlier used to get the long track to play: > Fourth Movement: Grandma's Coffin (return), etc. > > New longer track title, which previously did not play, and now does > play: Fourth Movement- Grandma's Coffin (return); Rufus Playboy > (return); Grandma's Coffin (2nd return) > > I agree, I was using a very long and redundant album title in this > instance, which was the technically complete title, but not necessary. > So, I think we can conclude this exceptionally long title had usurped > precious character capacity for each track in LMS/ Squeeze server. I > suppose this is the first time I've had this combination of a very long > album title and very long medley track names that together exceeded the > character capacity limits in Squeeze Server. I had added (xld) to the > end of the album title in this case to avoid duplication in my library > from other testing versions--I normally keep this cruft out. I do often > have long text in the "artist" field in the song tags, as I list many > supporting musicians, but I hope that would not be a factor with this > Squeeze play issue with the long album and track file names? > > I'm not aware of the method of pointing Squeeze Server/ LMS to an album > in the Music Folder for a targeted rescan. I'll try to find some > directions on this approach. > > So I guess we can mark this as "case solved". Thanks again for all your > help! I don't want to go to the trouble of experimenting with the new > version of LMS (requires new firmware) if I can keep my normally > reliable Squeeze Server 7.5.2. Perhaps the file name limits have been > expanded with LMS--a friend of mine who has a similar tagging system for > this "problem" album had no issues with LMS.
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