Re: [slim] Scanning - Metadata Changes
OK, thanks to everyone for the really instructive responses. I now understand why I wasn't seeing the song artist being updated. It was the ol' Artist vs Album Artist issue. I had changed the Artist in the metadata, but I guess the "key" that's used when you browse "music by artist" is the Album Artist, not the Artist. Actually, that brings up a good point. If we have a compilation album: Album: No Alternative 01. Superdeformed (Artist = Matthew Sweet, Album Artist = Various Artists) 02. For All to See (Artist = Buffalo Tom, Album Artist = Various Artists) ... 19. Verse Chorus Verse (Artist = Nirvana, Album Artist = Various Artists) If I browse the Squeezebox by Artist, I definitely do not want to see a million "Various Artists" under "V". So I think we'd want the Squeezebox to display "Artist", not "Album Artist" in this case. If we have an artist who has recorded albums under different names: Surfing On Sine Waves (Artist = Aphex Twin, Album Artist = Polygon Window) Analogue Bubblebath 3 (Artist = Aphex Twin, Album Artist = AFX) Joyrex J9ii(Artist = Aphex Twin, Album Artist = Caustic Window) Rushup Edge(Artist = Aphex Twin, Album Artist = The Tuss) Richard D. James Album (Artist = Aphex Twin, Album Artist = Aphex Twin) I think I'd prefer to see all this under Aphex Twin, the Artist, since this makes navigation with the Squeezebox remote much easier. In both cases where there's a distinction between Artist and Album Artist, I think I prefer Artist. Is there a way to make the importer use the Artist as the key and not Album Artist? Other for our own personal knowledge, is there ever a time when Album Artist is useful for tagging music? I really don't care about the fact that, say, an album was put out by "Frank Black" or "Frank Black and the Catholics", although I *do* care if it's "Frank Black" or "Pixies". I know this is pretty anal, and I apologize, but I'm sure many of you must be as anal as me with tagging your music. :-) Thanks! Pete -- pjs pjs's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32020 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=93812 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Scanning - Metadata Changes
I have a lot of digital music and am on a lifelong quest to perfect my tagging (e.g. changing Artist/Album Artist from "UB 40" or "ub40" to the correct "UB40"). Just to make sure I'm *not* crazy, I wanted to verify that when I rescan with "Find new and changed music" it won't update database entries when the metadata changes only. If I'm not crazy, and this is the case, is there a way to scan *just* the mp3 metadata? Or have the Logitech Media Server look at the mp3 metadata when deciding to update the DB entry without dumping the entire DB at the outset? Thanks! Pete -- pjs pjs's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32020 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=93812 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Skipping Over Music Folders
All excellent ideas, thank you. I was looking forward to learning how to write a plugin, but when it comes down to it, I do enough programming during the day. I just want to enjoy my music. :) Thank you all! Pete -- pjs pjs's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32020 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=75747 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Skipping Over Music Folders
Some albums are so dear to me that I have both mp3 and flac versions of them (for iTunes and home stereo use respectively). I would like to limit the scan to the flac version only so the album doesn't show up twice in SC. What I'd really like to do is skip over certain folders during a music scan based on some criteria. Perhaps the criteria would be the existence of an empty "dot file" in the folder to skip (like .skip or something like that). I'm a programmer, and wouldn't mind learning the SC's API if this can be done via a plugin, but I don't want to wade through tons of documentation only to learn it can't be done. Does anyone know if this kind of thing is possible to do via a plugin? If it is, I'll start reading! :) Thanks! Pete -- pjs pjs's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32020 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=75747 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Scan terminated Unexpectedly
Thank you *so* much! I'm running 7.4.1. I didn't even know of the existence of nightly beta builds... thank you!!! I looked at the changelog for 7.4.2, and I don't see anything related to fixing itunes artwork import, but I'll install it nevertheless. Bug fixes are good... :) I'll disable that part of the scan and see if the music folder navigation starts to work again. Do you know approximately where in "D:\bin\SqueezeCenter" the perl code is that's responsible for the scanning/import? I took a look in there for the first time; I was expecting to see mountains of perl code, but what I'm actually seeing is a bunch of exe files. I was always under the impression that perl powered the SC. Thanks so much! Pete -- pjs pjs's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32020 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71447 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Scan terminated Unexpectedly
I started a fresh scan (clear library and rescan everything) and towards the end, the SC reports: > > > > > - Directory Scan (17334 of 17334) Complete 00:33:56 > - Playlist Scan ( of ) Complete 00:00:00 > - iTunes Import (1010 of 1010) Complete 00:00:27 > - iTunes Playlist Import (27 of 27) Complete 00:00:02 > - Merge Various Artists (2812 of 2812) Complete 00:00:35 > - Artwork Scan (2853 of 2853) Complete 00:11:01 > - iTunes Downloaded Artwork Import (743 of 1048) Complete > 00:00:42 > - Music scan terminated unexpectedly (iTunes Downloaded Artwork > Import) > Total Time: 00:46:43 (Sunday, November 15, 2009 / 3:23 PM) > > > > And here are the gory details, where things look like they begin to go wrong: > > > > > - Slim::Music::Import::endImporter (701) Completed > Slim::Music::MusicFolderScan Scan in 2035 seconds. - Slim::Music::Import::runImporter (567) Starting > Slim::Music::PlaylistFolderScan scan - Slim::Music::Import::runImporter (567) Starting > Slim::Plugin::iTunes::Importer scan - Carp::Clan::__ANON__ (216) Warning: > DBIx::Class::ResultSet::single(): Query returned more than one row. > SQL that returns multiple rows is DEPRECATED for ->find and ->single > at /Slim/Schema.pm line > 2523 - Carp::Clan::__ANON__ (216) Warning: > DBIx::Class::ResultSet::single(): Query returned more than one row. > SQL that returns multiple rows is DEPRECATED for ->find and ->single > at /Slim/Schema.pm line > 2523 - Slim::Music::Import::endImporter (701) Completed > Slim::Plugin::iTunes::Importer Scan in 28 seconds. - Slim::Music::Import::runScanPostProcessing (430) Starting merge > of various artists albums - Slim::Music::Import::endImporter (701) Completed > mergeVariousAlbums Scan in 34 seconds. - Slim::Music::Import::runScanPostProcessing (438) Starting > artwork scan - Slim::Web::Graphics:: processCoverArtRequest (262) Error: Unable > to resize music/21236/cover_100x100_o: Can't resize unknown type, > magic: "\20JFIF\0\1\2" - Slim::Web::Graphics:: processCoverArtRequest (262) Error: Unable > to resize music/21236/cover_50x50_o: Can't resize unknown type, > magic: "\20JFIF\0\1\2" - Slim::Web::Graphics:: processCoverArtRequest (262) Error: Unable > to resize music/21236/cover_40x40_m: Can't resize unknown type, > magic: "\20JFIF\0\1\2" - Slim::Web::Graphics:: processCoverArtRequest (262) Error: Unable > to resize music/21236/cover_41x41_m: Can't resize unknown type, > magic: "\20JFIF\0\1\2" > > > > I'm not afraid of code (especially Perl) or SQL, however, I don't know where to go from here. How can I further diagnose this? I think I have a few folder images of type png. Could that be the problem? A little while ago, I noticed that my SC "music folder" is empty. Everything else seems populated: albums, artists, new music, playlists, etc. But I can no longer click on "music folder" to manually navigate the filesystem holding my music files. Could these errors be the cause of that? My SC is on WinXP, unfortunately. I plan on moving it to my Linux machine after the semester is over. Thanks! Pete -- pjs pjs's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32020 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71447 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Music Services Stopped Working
When I try to listen to last.fm or Pandora, the SC responds with a most curious message: > > There was an error loading the remote feed for Last.fm Radio: (Couldn't > resolve IP address for: www.squeezenetwork.com) > I don't know what to make of this message. I just discovered the wonders of last.fm a few nights ago, and I'm missing it! Anyone have any ideas what could be going on? Thanks! -- pjs pjs's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32020 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=66954 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Stopped Working
Power to my apartment went out abruptly, and now my Squeezebox Duet stopped functioning. I believe it's a networking issue, not a hardware failure issue. I suspect getting it to work the first time might have been more luck than anything else... The problem is that I don't *really* understand how this thing works. The receiver is hooked up to my local LAN's switch via ethernet. The light on the switch, I believe, is low white, indicating "receiver is on but music is not playing". I'm not 100% sure of the color, so I'm attaching a picture. My DSL modem appears to recognize the receiver: Device: Squeezebox IP Address: 192.168.1.45 Subnet Mask:255.255.255.0 MAC Address:00:04:20:17:18:cc Network Connection: Ethernet Lease Type: Dynamic And I can even ping the receiver. As far as I can tell, the receiver is as healthy as can be. On to the remote. I didn't realize this before, but apparently, the remote is also assigned its own IP address by my DSL modem: Device: SqueezeboxController IP Address: 192.168.1.43 Subnet Mask:255.255.255.0 MAC Address:00:04:20:1b:23:2d Network Connection: Ethernet Lease Type: Dynamic I can ping the remote as well. So here's the problem. 1. On the remote I press Home | Settings | Music Source 2. I see 3 things: "SqueezeNetwork", "lucifer", and "Other Server". Lucifer is the name of my WinXP system that runs the SC. Lucifer has static IP and is not running any firewall or antivirus at present. 3. I'm not sure what the "SqueezeNetwork" option is - maybe it's fore wireless setups? So I choose "lucifer", and after a little while the remote tells me "Could not connect Squeezebox 1718cc to lucifer". 4. So I go back and click "Other Server" and enter Lucifer's IP address (192.168.0.3). It dumps me back to the "Music Source" menu. This time I see "192.168.1.3", "SqueezeNetwork", and "Other Server". I try to push "192.168.1.3", but the remote makes an audible "click" sound and doesn't do anything. >From the SC: Version: 7.3.3 - 27044 @ Mon Jun 15 15:14:08 PDT 2009 Hostname: lucifer Server IP Address: 192.168.1.3 Server HTTP Port Number: 9000 Total Players Recognized: 1 I'm stumped. Can some kind soul help me figure out what's wrong? Aside from being bummed not to have my music, I'm very curious what the problem could be. Many thanks! Pete +---+ |Filename: squeeze2.jpg | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=7929| +---+ -- pjs pjs's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32020 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=66476 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
