[slim] Re: Duplicate Albums

2006-11-12 Thread benthos

ceejay;152432 Wrote: 
 Agreed. Also strange as it clearly isn't happening for most other
 users!
 
 What OS? Which version of SS, exactly? What file type? If MP3, might
 you have both v1 and v2 tags? Do you have any playlists? Using iTunes?

I discovered what was causing the problem.  The problem, again, was
that songs were showing up two or three times when I would open or play
an album.  The culprit: I had cyclical (redundant) shortcuts to certain
music folders.  

Since I can only specify one folder for Slimserver to scan, I plugged
shortcuts into that folder, directing the server to other folders. 
What I failed to realize is that I had duplicate shortcuts, leading to
the same folder.  With previous versions of Slimserver, this wasn't an
issue - it knew that the shortcuts pointed to the same file, and
included the file only once in the database.  With 6.5, it counts the
file with each scan.

Long story short: if your playlists show the same file multiple times,
I recommend checking your shortcuts.


Chris


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[slim] Re: Duplicate Albums

2006-11-05 Thread benthos

ceejay;152432 Wrote: 
 
 
 What OS? Which version of SS, exactly? What file type? If MP3, might
 you have both v1 and v2 tags? Do you have any playlists? Using iTunes?

OS = Windows XP

File types = 

flac - all flac tracks show up either two or three times - I can't see
any discernible difference between the ones that show 2 times and those
that show 3 times;

mp3 - mp3 tracks evidently only show up twice.  Almost all of my
recordings in flac have an .m3u file in their folder, but this is not
always the case with the mp3 recordings.  The mp3 files mostly have
both v1 and v2 tags.


ceejay;152432 Wrote: 
 
 One interesting (and easy) test would be to create a new music folder
 and just copy one or two albums into it. Make sure that you  don't have
 any playlists in play. Then point SS at that folder as its library, turn
 on some debugging flags (d_scan at least, you could also search the
 forum for other suggestions), do a full clear and rescan and see what
 happens (look in the log file which is accessible from the debugging
 page).
 
 

I don't really understand this.  I'm not technically adept when it
comes to things like debugging, I wouldn't even know where to start.


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[slim] Re: Duplicate Albums

2006-11-04 Thread ceejay

benthos;152423 Wrote: 
  It's ridiculous.

Agreed. Also strange as it clearly isn't happening for most other
users!

What OS? Which version of SS, exactly? What file type? If MP3, might
you have both v1 and v2 tags? Do you have any playlists? Using iTunes?

One interesting (and easy) test would be to create a new music folder
and just copy one or two albums into it. Make sure that you  don't have
any playlists in play. Then point SS at that folder as its library, turn
on some debugging flags (d_scan at least, you could also search the
forum for other suggestions), do a full clear and rescan and see what
happens (look in the log file which is accessible from the debugging
page).

HTH
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[slim] Re: Duplicate Albums

2006-11-04 Thread timrfletcher

slimpy;144904 Wrote: 
 Yes, you have to relocate them. There were some considerable changes in
 6.5 regarding the handling of compilation albums and common album
 names. In 6.3 you had to specify every album name that existed in your
 library more than once, e.g. Greatest Hits. If you didn't these
 albums were treated as compilation albums. This was quite cumbersome
 and did not follow common sense: Why should an album be treated as a
 compilation only because there is another album with the same name by a
 different artist. e.g I have three albums called The Antidote by three
 different artists.
 Slimserver now only treats albums as compilations if they have
 different artists and the files are in the same directory. 
 This is only a problem for people who strictly follow the
 /artist/album/song structure and even split up compilation albums. I
 suggest you create an artist directory called Various artists and
 regroup your compilation albums under this entry.
 
 Another (unverified) solution you might want to try: Tag all
 compilation tracks with the COMPILATION=1 tag. I'm not sure if this
 works though as I haven't actually tried it. But telling slimserver
 explicitely to treat these tracks as compilation could do the trick.
 
 -s.


I don't think the COMPILATION flag alone will solve this, but I've been
using it along with a DISC tag which does seem to work. Just set the
DISC tag the same for each track. I use:

COMPILATION=1
DISC=0

I use 0 to differentiate from true multi disc sets, where I do uses
DISC and DISCC. There doesn't seem to be any need for DISCC in this
case, and I'm not sure if the COMPILATION tag is even needed.

When I do this, I don't even see a disc number in the song info. I
don't know whether it's because there is no DISCC tag, or because the
DISC tag is 0.


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[slim] Re: Duplicate Albums

2006-11-03 Thread benthos

For the record: I've installed the new 6.5, and I'm having this same
problem.  Every song shows up 3 times, even though it's the same song,
from the same album, and the same file directory - every one of them
shows up in triplicate.  It's a major drag - to listen to an album the
way it's supposed to be heard, without playing each song 3 times in a
row, I have to manually x out all of the duplicates from my playlist.
It's ridiculous.


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[slim] Re: Duplicate Albums

2006-10-10 Thread repman

Having upgraded to version 6.5.1 I'm having the same issues reported
here with duplicate album names.
I have tried a complete un-install of SlimServer and deleting the
associated program directories, but still my complimation albums list
for each and every artist. ie 20 tracks = 20 albums
In 'Home/Server Settings/Behavior' I have selected 'Group complimation
albums together' although I'm not so sure what setting to use for the
following:
'Albums that contain songs that are tagged with a band may be listed
under that band name or with the other artists for that album. The band
tag is also known as TPE2 and may appear as the album artist in some
software'
My understanding is that the core artist name would be 'Various' an
that band is the Album Artist... Slimserver does not exactly make any
of this clear. Needless to say it all worked fine in 6.3.1

I use TagRename for file management and my file format is entirely
flac, my directory structure is \artist\album\track.

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[slim] Re: Duplicate Albums

2006-10-10 Thread slimpy

repman;144864 Wrote: 
 Having upgraded to version 6.5.1 I'm having the same issues reported
 here with duplicate album names.
 I have tried a complete un-install of SlimServer and deleting the
 associated program directories, but still my complimation albums list
 for each and every artist. ie 20 tracks = 20 albums
 In 'Home/Server Settings/Behavior' I have selected 'Group complimation
 albums together' although I'm not so sure what setting to use for the
 following:
 'Albums that contain songs that are tagged with a band may be listed
 under that band name or with the other artists for that album. The band
 tag is also known as TPE2 and may appear as the album artist in some
 software'
 My understanding is that the core artist name would be 'Various' an
 that band is the Album Artist... Slimserver does not exactly make any
 of this clear. Needless to say it all worked fine in 6.3.1
 
 I use TagRename for file management and my file format is entirely
 flac, my directory structure is \artist\album\track.
Are all songs from one compilation album in the same directory. They
need to be in order to be recognized as belonging to the same album.
If they are in different directories it isn't possible for slimserver
to tell if they belong to a compilation album or if they are just
different albums with the same name.

Regarding the TPE2 tag have a look at this thread:
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28261

-s.


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[slim] Re: Duplicate Albums

2006-10-10 Thread repman

slimpy;144886 Wrote: 
 Are all songs from one compilation album in the same directory. They
 need to be in order to be recognized as belonging to the same album.
 If they are in different directories it isn't possible for slimserver
 to tell if they belong to a compilation album or if they are just
 different albums with the same name.
 
 Regarding the TPE2 tag have a look at this thread:
 http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28261
 
 -s.

Slimpy - I understand what you are saying, and all of my compilation
tracks are in individual artist folders (and therefore repeated same
albums). It still does not explain why it worked in 6.3.1 but not
6.5.1. does this now mean I have to re-locate all compilation files...?


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[slim] Re: Duplicate Albums

2006-10-10 Thread slimpy

repman;144895 Wrote: 
 Slimpy - I understand what you are saying, and all of my compilation
 tracks are in individual artist folders (and therefore repeated same
 albums). It still does not explain why it worked in 6.3.1 but not
 6.5.1. does this now mean I have to re-locate all compilation files...?
Yes, you have to relocate them. There were some considerable changes in
6.5 regarding the handling of compilation albums and common album names.
In 6.3 you had to specify every album name that existed in your library
more than once, e.g. Greatest Hits. If you didn't these albums were
treated as compilation albums. This was quite cumbersome and did not
follow common sense: Why should an album be treated as a compilation
only because there is another album with the same name by a different
artist. e.g I have three albums called The Antidote by three
different artists.
Slimserver now only treats albums as compilations if they have
different artists and the files are in the same directory. 
This is only a problem for people who strictly follow the
/artist/album/song structure and even split up compilation albums. I
suggest you create an artist directory called Various artists and
regroup your compilation albums under this entry.

Another (unverified) solution you might want to try: Tag all
compilation tracks with the COMPILATION=1 tag. I'm not sure if this
works though as I haven't actually tried it. But telling slimserver
explicitely to treat these tracks as compilation could do the trick.

-s.


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[slim] Re: Duplicate Albums

2006-10-10 Thread ModelCitizen

slimpy;144904 Wrote: 
 Another (unverified) solution you might want to try: Tag all compilation
 tracks with the COMPILATION=1 tag. I'm not sure if this works though as
 I haven't actually tried it. But telling slimserver explicitely to
 treat these tracks as compilation could do the trick.
 -s.
This did not work for me due to the music being spead over vartious
directories. For all compilations albums each with their own directory
it works fine (i.e. cures multiple listings of compilation albums).


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[slim] Re: Duplicate Albums

2006-10-09 Thread NeilB

After having some duplicate album issues myself, I think I finally found
out what was causing them. Somehow, some of the tracks had V1 and V2
tags. Removing the V1 tags solved the problem. I used a program called
Dr Tag to do it - I did try to do the same with MP3Tag but for some
reason it didn't properly delete them.


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[slim] Re: Duplicate Albums

2006-10-09 Thread bossman

Thanks for the suggestion.  I too use Dr Tag and validated that most (if
not all) of my albums only have one type of tag (some are V1 and some
are V2 if that matters).

Regardless, nothing has changed about the tags of my albums since
before I upgraded to 6.5.0.

I tried deleting everything in my SlimServer  Server  cache folder
within my slimserver installation, then setting my folders to a folder
with no songs, and clearing the library.  That resulted in an empty
library.

But when I pointed my playlists folder back to where I actually keep my
music (on an external hard drive) it rescanned and each song showed up
three times again.  I'm dumbfounded.


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[slim] Re: Duplicate Albums

2006-10-08 Thread bossman

I do not have any playlists or musicmagic -- used a tag editor to clean
up the tags and folders containing all my songs, and it gets rid of
playlists.  ITunes is installed on my computer but I have Do Not Use
Itunes chosen in my General Server Settings.

Everything about my configuration is the same (as far as I know) as it
was with previous versions of SlimServer, where I did not see this
behavior.


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[slim] Re: Duplicate Albums

2006-10-06 Thread bossman

Hi.  I've had a number of versions of slimserver over time, but when I
upgraded to 6.5 and rescanned my music library, many albums (not just
compilations) suddenly show three listings for every single individual
song.  Albums are only listed once.  So, for example, if I go into an
album with 11 songs (and I've validated that there are only 11 files),
each song shows up three times for a total of 33 songs.  When I look at
song info for the dupes, they show the same path and the rest of the
info is identical.

I've clear the library and rescanned a couple times, and I get the same
effect.

My SlimServer is running on Windows XP.  All of my music is under a
single directory on an external hard drive.  I don't have any playlists
and I use a tag editor to clean up the tags.

From the URL's that I see when I hover over each song in the SlimServer
interface, it makes it look like it scanned the library three times
consecutively or something.  Hard to tell.  Any suggestions?

Thanks.


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Re: [slim] Re: Duplicate Albums

2006-10-06 Thread Jack Coates
On 10/6/06, bossman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi.I've had a number of versions of slimserver over time, but when Iupgraded to 
6.5 and rescanned my music library, many albums (not justcompilations) suddenly show three listings for every single individualsong.Albums are only listed once.So, for example, if I go into analbum with 11 songs (and I've validated that there are only 11 files),
each song shows up three times for a total of 33 songs.When I look atsong info for the dupes, they show the same path and the rest of theinfo is identical.I've clear the library and rescanned a couple times, and I get the same
effect.My SlimServer is running on Windows XP.All of my music is under asingle directory on an external hard drive.I don't have any playlistsand I use a tag editor to clean up the tags.From the URL's that I see when I hover over each song in the SlimServer
interface, it makes it look like it scanned the library three timesconsecutively or something.Hard to tell.Any suggestions?Do you have playlists? How about iTunes or MusicMagic or similar?
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[slim] Re: Duplicate Albums

2006-10-02 Thread slimpy

Have a close look at the file path on the song info page for both the
entry from the playlist and the library. Do they differ in any way?

-s.


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[slim] Re: Duplicate Albums

2006-10-02 Thread joncourage

Wow, good call.

The songs in the dupe album point to the location on a previous hard
drive where I kept music before upgrading to the 6.5 version.  That
hard drive is still online and accessible by the Slimserver, so Slim
doesn't appear to think anything is wrong or obsolete about that
location.

The songs in the real album point to the correct location.

So, it would seem by induction that the Playlists entries continue to
point to the original location of the song in the playlist (which makes
sense I guess since the playlist has no way of knowing the music has
moved and re-pointing, does it?).  And since that location is still
available, the music is getting scanned.

An interesting conundrum - if you move you music directory, is there no
way to update playlists with new locations, or do playlists have to be
manually recreated?

Thanks for the great diagnostic direction!


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[slim] Re: Duplicate Albums

2006-10-02 Thread slimpy

joncourage;142021 Wrote: 
 Wow, good call.
 
 The songs in the dupe album point to the location on a previous hard
 drive where I kept music before upgrading to the 6.5 version.  That
 hard drive is still online and accessible by the Slimserver, so Slim
 doesn't appear to think anything is wrong or obsolete about that
 location.
 
 The songs in the real album point to the correct location.
 
 So, it would seem by induction that the Playlists entries continue to
 point to the original location of the song in the playlist (which makes
 sense I guess since the playlist has no way of knowing the music has
 moved and re-pointing, does it?).  And since that location is still
 available, the music is getting scanned.
 
 An interesting conundrum - if you move you music directory, is there no
 way to update playlists with new locations, or do playlists have to be
 manually recreated?
 
 Thanks for the great diagnostic direction!

Glad to be of any help.
Playlists are basically just text files. Search the internet for a text
editor that can replace text in multiple files at once, open all
playlists in the text editor and replace the changed part of the file
path. This is certainly easier than recreating all playlists.

-s.


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[slim] Re: Duplicate Albums

2006-10-02 Thread joncourage

Once again slimpy - awesome.  Thanks so much!


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[slim] Re: Duplicate Albums

2006-10-02 Thread nicketynick

Well done, slimpy - another fine example of how great this community
is!
Now, how do we keep other unwary users from running into this problem? 
Is it a bug? Or an enhancement request?  Any of our friends from SD care
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[slim] Re: Duplicate Albums

2006-10-01 Thread joncourage

Just upgraded to 6.5 (uninstalled 6.3.1 then fresh install of 6.5) and
am having a duplicate album problem but not for compilations.

I get a duplicate entry for a single-artist single-album, sometimes
with a few songs only in the dupe (all songs show in the main) or
sometimes all songs showing in the dupe.

Anyone know of a fix for this?

(haven't tried a clear and re-scan yet)


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[slim] Re: Duplicate Albums

2006-10-01 Thread joncourage

further info.

all dupe albums are albums containing songs that are found in some
playlist.  I would venture that all songs in playlists have resulted in
album dupes.


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[slim] Re: Duplicate Albums

2006-09-27 Thread mdw

Thank you for this thread on compilations.  I have followed the
procedure and it works for me as well.  One consequence of this that I
had not anticipated was that tracks for artists in the Various Artists
folder do not appear now under Browse Artists unless I go to Various
Artists under Browse Artists.  And even in that case, the listing is by
album, not artist.  So, I can no longer go to Browse Artist and browse
all songs in my collection by Artist.  Is there a server setting that I
can change that will allow all tracks to show up under each Artist when
in Browse Artists?


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[slim] Re: Duplicate Albums

2006-09-27 Thread slimpy

Server Settings - Behavior - Compilations - List compilation albums
under each artist

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[slim] Re: Duplicate Albums

2006-09-27 Thread mdw

Thank you.  It turns out that I had the incorrect file permissions on my
slimserver.conf file so that when I had selected the Behavior parameter
as you suggest, it didn't write it to the config file.  I saved the
change again after a chmod and it works now.  Thanks!


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[slim] Re: Duplicate Albums

2006-09-25 Thread slimpy

norderney;139127 Wrote: 
 So with Compilation tag set to YES, should the various artists album
 only appear once even though the tracks are spread out over various
 folders? The only option is to go through the very laborious task of
 cutting and pasting the tracks for each various artists album into
 single folders for each album?
You need to put all the tracks belonging to the same album into one
single folder, regardless if it's a various artists or multi disc
album.

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[slim] Re: Duplicate Albums

2006-09-25 Thread smc2911

Multi-disc collections don't have to be in a single directory: they can
be split across a directory for each disc.


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[slim] Re: Duplicate Albums

2006-09-25 Thread chris . mason

This is now working for me:

I happen to have my compilation albums (where there are multiple
artists) grouped under a directory called Various Artists then the
album name, otherwise all albums are grouped under the artist name.

For all compilation albums, each track has the tag Compilation, which
is set to 1.

For albums that are multi-disk, I added:
Discc=the total number of discs in the set
Discnumber=the number of the disc the track belongs to

I have group compilations albums together AND Treat multi-disk
albums as one album.  I did a complete re-scan and hey presto
everything is working as it should be: you get one entry for a multi
disk album, which when selected lists all the tracks from all the discs
in set.

Chris.


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[slim] Re: Duplicate Albums

2006-09-25 Thread slimpy

When using the DISCC/DISCNUMBER tags there is no need to have all tracks
numbered contiguously. Tracks on the second disc can start with 1 again.
Slimserver orders them correctly (DISCNUMBER, TRACKNUMBER).

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[slim] Re: Duplicate Albums

2006-09-25 Thread chris . mason

I assume you mean that SlimServer doesn't actually renumber the tracks
for you while browsing them, just then they are shown in the correct
order...e.g.

disc no - track no. song title

I *did* have my albums numbered contiguously, but since I've figured
out how to get this working (thanks to this thread), I've renumbered
them all from 1.


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[slim] Re: Duplicate Albums

2006-09-25 Thread slimpy

No, Slimserver doesn't renumber the tracks but it shows all tracks from
disc 1 then disc 2 starting with track 1 again.

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Re: [slim] Re: Duplicate Albums

2006-09-24 Thread Johnathan Hershbaum
Hello HTH

Where do I find the  COMPILATION=1

tag

I am not seeing it in my tagger program

Thanks

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Hello Siduhe,

Sunday, September 24, 2006, 12:04:46 AM, you wrote:

 Try setting COMPILATION=1 ?

 That is the tag (introduced around 6.3.1 I think) which seems to sort
 most people out.

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[slim] Re: Duplicate Albums

2006-09-24 Thread Siduhe

Hi Jonathan,

Which tagging program are you using ?  You may need something like
Foobar2000 or mp3tag.

Have you also seen smc's post about adding the DISCC / DISCNUMBER tag
for those that aren't by various artists bu where you have multiple
discs ?

add a tag to each track DISCC=1 and DISCNUMBER=1 or 2 as appropriate.
Note that these tags certainly work for flac and ogg.


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[slim] Re: Duplicate Albums

2006-09-24 Thread norderney

I have a similar problem. I originally started ripping various artist
compilation albums into individual artist folders. When I upgraded to
ver 6.3 I discovered that this was causing problems, so found out that
there was a field called compilation and by setting it to YES, I
found all my various artist albums only appeared once each.
However, since upgrading to ver 6.5 I am once again getting the same
album title appearing multiple times.

What is this about setting Compilation to 1?  I use tagrename and it
will only allow Compilation to be yes or no, not 1!


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[slim] Re: Duplicate Albums

2006-09-24 Thread norderney

So with Compilation tag set to YES, should the various artists album
only appear once even though the tracks are spread out over various
folders? The only option is to go through the very laborious task of
cutting and pasting the tracks for each various artists album into
single folders for each album?


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[slim] Re: Duplicate Albums

2006-09-24 Thread smc2911

norderney;139127 Wrote: 
 So with Compilation tag set to YES, should the various artists album
 only appear once even though the tracks are spread out over various
 folders? The only option is to go through the very laborious task of
 cutting and pasting the tracks for each various artists album into
 single folders for each album?
You'll also need to set Group Compilation Albums Together under
Server Settings  Behaviour. If you do want to get all those tracks
back in one album, using a tagging tool (see
http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?BeginnersGuideToTagging) can
automatically do this for you: no need for a laborious cut  paste.


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[slim] Re: Duplicate Albums

2006-09-24 Thread norderney

But Compilation tag is set to YES on all tracks on these various artist
albums. What else can I do?


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[slim] Re: Duplicate Albums

2006-09-24 Thread smc2911

So you have set Group Compilation Albums Together in Server Settings
and have compilation set to YES and you still don't have them grouped
together? I'd be interested to know whether it's actually set to 1 and
TagRename is displaying it as 'Yes'. Try mp3tag (it's free), select a
track and press alt-T and you'll see the literal tag content (there may
be a way to do this in TagRename, but I'm not sure). Finally, since
setting the tags and the Slimserver Settings have you done a clear and
rescan? If you still have no joy, I think  you will need to put albums
in a single directory, but this is a fairly simple task using a tagging
tools: just select all your tracks and then rename the files based on
tags to, say, Various Artists\%album%\%tracknum% - %artist% - %title%
and Bob's your uncle.


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[slim] Re: Duplicate Albums

2006-09-23 Thread chris . mason

I'm seeing this behaviour as well.
I've just upgraded to 6.5.0 from 6.3.1 on Windows XP (sp2).

I have a number of compilation albums spread across two or more disks. 
On the hard drive, they are structured thus:

d:\music\flac\The Greatest Songs (Disk 1)
d:\music\flac\The Greatest Songs (Disl 2)

and each track is tagged thus:
ALBUM = The Greatest Songs

Under 6.3.1 I wanted these multi-disk albums to appear as one big
album, (but still have the albums as their seperate CDs on the hard
disk) so I made sure the tracks were numbered contiguously, such that
track one on disk 2 would actually be numbered as the last track number
from disk 1, plus one.  This all worked correctly under 6.3.1.  Now with
6.5.0, I get an album entry for each disk, regardless of how I set
behaviour.  

This is a completely fresh install, and I've tried rescanning from
scratch several times.  My guess is that 6.5.0 introduces support for
some further ID3 tags concerning compilation albums.  Can anybody say
what these tags are, or if this is indeed the case?

Many thanks,
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[slim] Re: Duplicate Albums

2006-09-23 Thread Siduhe

Try setting COMPILATION=1 ?

That is the tag (introduced around 6.3.1 I think) which seems to sort
most people out.

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[slim] Re: Duplicate Albums

2006-09-23 Thread smc2911

Only use the compilation=1 tag for various artists. For multi-disc
albums, add a tag to each track DISCC=1 and DISCNUMBER=1 or 2 as
appropriate. Note that these tags certainly work for flac and ogg. For
mp3 you are probably better off using DISC instead of DISCNUMBER. I'd
been using the 6.5 beta for a while prior to release and this works
well. I think earlier versions did more guessing, while 6.5 needs to be
told!


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[slim] Re: Duplicate Albums

2006-09-22 Thread WSLam

Did you try to mess with Compilations settings under Server
Settings\Behavior?


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[slim] Re: Duplicate albums titles from tags

2005-05-30 Thread jwgraves

kdf,

Bingo!  The files in question all had the Composer tag valued and
that was causing them to appear in the artists list of albums and also
the composers list of albums.  I tried changing the setting under
Behavior to not include composer, band and orchestra but that had
no affect (even after clearing the cache).  Only way to fix the problem
was to clear out the Composer tag in all the files and clear the cache
out and rescan the library.

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[slim] Re: Duplicate albums titles from tags

2005-05-28 Thread jwgraves

cdfreak Wrote: 
 It's not a bug per se, more of the way Slimserver does the albums. It
 already knows to look for Greatest Hits and Best of as an album
 name and split the albums out...but others (ie, Footprints in your
 case) will show up in the same list when browse by album is chosen.
 
 In slimserver.. server settings...behavior there is a section called
 Common Album Titles. You'll see Greatest Hits, Best of, and Live
 already listed there. Add Footprints (and any other duped album
 names) to the list, click change, and then do a cache wipe and re-scan.
 It should hopefully put them in seperate folders now. I'd add Best Of,
 The Best of, The Best Of as well...
 
 
 hope it helps!


Thanks for the response, but I don't think that's what is happening
here.  The album is not duplicated, the song title is.  In my example,
Footprints is on Miles Davis' album Miles Smiles and is also on Wayne
Shorter's album Adams Apple, so I can't add an album called Footprints
to the 'Common Album Titles' section.   
Is Slimserver truly reading the MP3 tags or does it create it's music
database from the directory structure?
It is definitely a bug (IMHO) because when I view an artist, Slimserver
will show an album that is not by that artist, all because in that album
is a song title that also happens to be by the original artist. This is
wrong and does not happen on any other music software I use (including
portable music players).


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Re: [slim] Re: Duplicate albums titles from tags

2005-05-28 Thread kdf
Quoting jwgraves [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

 Is Slimserver truly reading the MP3 tags or does it create it's music
 database from the directory structure?

yes, it definitely does use the tags.  Only when no valid tags can be found,
will it then use something based on directory structure and matching the
patterns set in server settings, formats, Guess Tags.

 It is definitely a bug (IMHO) because when I view an artist, Slimserver
 will show an album that is not by that artist, all because in that album
 is a song title that also happens to be by the original artist. This is
 wrong and does not happen on any other music software I use (including
 portable music players).

I'd suggest that you check your tags first.  The server will look for other
contributor tags, such as composer, band, orig artist etc.  Those are included
as 'artists' for the purposes of browse by artist and more.  There is a server
setting for this under server settings, behavior (I think, might be another
tab).  The setting is Composer in Artists.  You may have to rescan (or even
wipe cache) after changing this setting to reindex all the artist info from
your songs.

If you do eventually determine that this is now happening, please do file a bug
report and attach the two files in question that highlight this effect.

cheers,
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Re: [slim] Re: Duplicate albums titles from tags

2005-05-27 Thread Josh Coalson
--- Pat Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 16:47 -0400, ron thigpen wrote:
  Pat Farrell wrote:
   The standard way most software on the 'net identifies a CD is 
   using the CDDB hash, which is not unique, neither is any rational
   combination of artist/album names. 
  
  this is just a hash of the CD title track data isn't it?  it might
 not 
  do the trick all by itself, but if it exists it would be a very
 strong 
  hint.  hash/ID collisions should be reasonably rare.  but not
 everyone's 
  tracks will have this tag.
 
 It is not about the name or title. And it is not associated with the
 specific track/song
 
 It is a hash calculated from the number of tracks and the length of
 each
 track. Since lots of pop/rock/country CDs have around 10 songs and
 the
 songs are about 3 minutes long each, there are a lot of collisions
 in those types of songs. In other areas, like Classical Symphonies,
 there are usually only 6 movements per Album, and there is a fair
 amount
 of variance, so you don't see that many conflicts.
 I don't know what the actual statistics are, but when you use
 any of the rippers that talk to CDDB (or freedb) to get track info,
 you see it 'frequently' pop up a selection dialog box to let
 the user resolve the collisions.

yes.  CDDB has many collisions because it's a very bad hash.
it doesn't use enough bits from the CD TOC and the hashing
formula is naive.  but there are better ones, like CDindex,
which uses most of the TOC bits and SHA-1 for the hash.  I
use a similar hash for my own collection (which uses even
more TOC bits and a slightly better message formulation).
practically speaking collisions with these hashes only occur
for CDs with identical TOCs.

  http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/wiki.pl?DiscIDCalculation

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[slim] Re: Duplicate albums titles from tags

2005-05-26 Thread cdfreak

It's not a bug per se, more of the way Slimserver does the albums. It
already knows to look for Greatest Hits and Best of as an album
name and split the albums out...but others (ie, Footprints in your
case) will show up in the same list when browse by album is chosen.

In slimserver.. server settings...behavior there is a section called
Common Album Titles. You'll see Greatest Hits, Best of, and Live
already listed there. Add Footprints (and any other duped album
names) to the list, click change, and then do a cache wipe and re-scan.
It should hopefully put them in seperate folders now. I'd add Best Of,
The Best of, The Best Of as well...


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[slim] Re: Duplicate albums titles from tags

2005-05-26 Thread cdfreak

But if you constrain by both album and artist, you'll have 10-15 of each
compilation cd, and some soundtracks. In this case, you'd need to have a
tag specified for cdartist (Various Artists) or to somehow note that
it is a compilation cd or multiple artist album.

Or, you could rename the album to be more than just the common name,
like Footsteps to be Artist - Footsteps. But this would make displaying
look rather poor when it says Miles Davis - Footsteps by Miles Davis.

There's not a very easy solution from a database perspective without a
field that is album unique. If it doesn't come from the id3 tag it
needs to come from the file/folder location.

Going by *folder* giving each folder an ID# in the database, and
everything in that folder is an album might work, but it would need to
make sure you were at the lowest level of folders so someone with
Music/A/Aerosmith/Toys in the Attic hierarchy is covered as well as
people who have just Music/A/Aerosmith - Toys in the Attic or (heaven
forbid) Music/Aerosmith - Toys in the Attic. No idea what the workload
cost would be using one method of scanning vs the other though.


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Re: [slim] Re: Duplicate albums titles from tags

2005-05-26 Thread ron thigpen

i wrote too quickly.  to be more precise, i should have said:

the SQL that populates this display should be constraining by an ID 
unique to this album


cdfreak wrote:

But if you constrain by both album and artist, you'll have 10-15 of each
compilation cd, and some soundtracks. In this case, you'd need to have a
tag specified for cdartist (Various Artists) or to somehow note that
it is a compilation cd or multiple artist album.


you're right.  various artists albums are a special case.  SS needs to 
deal with this case generally.  once that is done, then it should take 
care of this case as well.


it seems like a workable approach to this problem should already exist.
do the standard tagging systems have a marker for compilations?  how do 
other library management and playback applications deal with issue?



Or, you could rename the album to be more than just the common name,
like Footsteps to be Artist - Footsteps. But this would make displaying
look rather poor when it says Miles Davis - Footsteps by Miles Davis.


could work, but seems a horrible hack.


There's not a very easy solution from a database perspective without a
field that is album unique. If it doesn't come from the id3 tag it
needs to come from the file/folder location.


is there no unique album key in the SS DB schema?  that's a real 
weakness.  i can see why it would be hard to nail down, as most audio 
files are track-based and not album-based.


a key based on uniqueness of Artist-Album concatenation might be good 
enough once the V/A problem is addressed.



Going by *folder* giving each folder an ID# in the database, [...]


any solution that relies on identifying unique albums by path is going 
to fail for users that don't follow the expected conventions.  i suppose 
it would be possible to allow user to enter custom masks to hint this 
type of interpretation.


thoughts?

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Re: [slim] Re: Duplicate albums titles from tags

2005-05-26 Thread Pat Farrell
On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 16:19 -0400, ron thigpen wrote:

 the SQL that populates this display should be constraining by an ID 
 unique to this album

 is there no unique album key in the SS DB schema?  that's a real 
 weakness.  i can see why it would be hard to nail down, as most audio 
 files are track-based and not album-based.

I haven't looked at the source recently, that is what the developers
list is about, but it sure had it when I last looked.

 a key based on uniqueness of Artist-Album concatenation might be good 
 enough once the V/A problem is addressed.

This is really a hard problem.
The standard way most software on the 'net identifies a CD is 
using the CDDB hash, which is not unique, neither is any rational
combination of artist/album names. While most people
don't have duplicate copies of CDs on their shelves (For some
reason, I have half a dozen where I forgot that I bought it already)
if you look at any large collection, you will see identical
CDs that are different. Due to lots of reasons, sometimes
they even have differing UPC codes, shorter or longer songs, etc.

Kinda like how we identify people by their name when
we know that Pat Farrell is hardly unique.

One of the beauties of moving SS 6.* to using Sql is that
you don't need a solution that is 100% applicable out of the box.
Special cases can be handled special.


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Re: [slim] Re: Duplicate albums titles from tags

2005-05-26 Thread ron thigpen

Pat Farrell wrote:


I haven't looked at the source recently, that is what the developers
list is about, but it sure had it when I last looked.


if true, that's good news.  any idea on how the value is set?

(happy to move the thread if this gets annoying...)

a key based on uniqueness of Artist-Album concatenation might be good 
enough once the V/A problem is addressed.



This is really a hard problem.


yeah, i understand just enough about this to see how it would be hard.

it helps that SS can probably just shoot for uniqueness _within the 
music library_ and not in the world.  also, i'm not sure uniqueness 
would need to span refreshes of the database.  for purposes of the SS 
UI, it just needs to be a pointer to a group of track files.


the issue is how to define the boundaries of these file groups based 
solely on information available in the tags (and perhaps pathname).


The standard way most software on the 'net identifies a CD is 
using the CDDB hash, which is not unique, neither is any rational
combination of artist/album names. 


this is just a hash of the CD title track data isn't it?  it might not 
do the trick all by itself, but if it exists it would be a very strong 
hint.  hash/ID collisions should be reasonably rare.  but not everyone's 
tracks will have this tag.


is this working any differently for those using iTunes integration?

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[slim] Re: Duplicate albums titles from tags

2005-05-26 Thread Dondi

This is a problem that I had incurred when sharing the music library on
my network with my Windows Media Center computer and its MY MUSIC
portion of the GUI/Player. 

Windows MCE uses Windows Media Player on the back-end for its library
(which acts somewhat differently than the plain ole Windows Medis
Player itself). The issue of multiple album listings of a single album
occurred when the ALBUM ARTIST field was empty OR was improperly
populated by the artist of that particular song instead of a generic
field like 'COMPILATION' or 'VARIOUS ARTISTS'

Windows media center populates its album listing FIRST by the ALBUM
ARTIST tag. Once this issue had wreaked havoc on my Media Center, the
solution was as simple as going back through my compilations (and
eventually the entire library) and making sure the ALBUM ARTIST field
was populated correctly. Anything that was a soundtrack, I populated as
'SOUNDTRACK' in the ALBUM ARTIST field... same for TRIBUTE albums,
COMPILATION, etc. This alleviated several issues with the way MCE
listed ALBUMS: It solved the issue of having albums of the same title
from a single artist mixed together with a single compilation album of
the same title. It also alleviated the 'GREATEST HITS' issue as well as
the issue of a 12-track compilation album being displayed as 12 separate
albums of the same title.

This extra field has saved my library in Windows Media Center and it
seems that it may be of use with Slim Server. As an added precaution,
in the case of a GREATEST HITS fiasco, I also named every common
album title with an added Identifier i.e., GREATEST HITS: ARTIST in the
ALBUM field.

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Re: [slim] Re: Duplicate albums titles from tags

2005-05-26 Thread Pat Farrell
On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 16:47 -0400, ron thigpen wrote:
 Pat Farrell wrote:
  The standard way most software on the 'net identifies a CD is 
  using the CDDB hash, which is not unique, neither is any rational
  combination of artist/album names. 
 
 this is just a hash of the CD title track data isn't it?  it might not 
 do the trick all by itself, but if it exists it would be a very strong 
 hint.  hash/ID collisions should be reasonably rare.  but not everyone's 
 tracks will have this tag.

It is not about the name or title. And it is not associated with the
specific track/song

It is a hash calculated from the number of tracks and the length of each
track. Since lots of pop/rock/country CDs have around 10 songs and the
songs are about 3 minutes long each, there are a lot of collisions
in those types of songs. In other areas, like Classical Symphonies,
there are usually only 6 movements per Album, and there is a fair amount
of variance, so you don't see that many conflicts.
I don't know what the actual statistics are, but when you use
any of the rippers that talk to CDDB (or freedb) to get track info,
you see it 'frequently' pop up a selection dialog box to let
the user resolve the collisions.

Some metadata taggers store the value in the MP3/ogg/flac files,
others seem to not bother. It is really an album characteristic,
not a song/track characteristic. 

An additional problem is that the cddb data (and the freedb data)
is not very clean. For many albums that I've prepared,
the dialog box from CDex will show three names that are clearly
the same album to a person, but that have differing genres, or
punctuation of the names (all the stuff that started this thread).

Still, it is a start, and with a little careful mangling, you
could probably automate 99% of the cases.


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Re: [slim] Re: Duplicate albums titles from tags

2005-05-26 Thread ron thigpen

Pat Farrell wrote:

It is not about the name or title. And it is not associated with the
specific track/song


all info concerning CDDB ID acknowledged.  fit w/ what i know about it.

i'm not sure the CDDB ID is the best SS-AlbumID candidate, but i do 
think the approach has merit.


problems with using CDDB directly include all of it's warts: needs 
external access, requires writing to a track's tag data, is only best 
gathered at CD Rip time, may be missing in many files, and may not be in 
a standard tag.


what i was thinking of would be more of an analogue of that approach, 
implemented in SS.  while scanning tags, SS would look at a minimally 
sufficient amount of tag and pathname data to identify albums.  some 
rules might need to fire to use different seed data for certain variants 
(ex: if composer not null use composer, if compilation ignore artist, 
etc).  some condenation or has of this reviewed data could be stored in 
the SS DB.  it wouldn't make a good candidate Albums PK, but could prove 
useful in doing 'SELECT DISTINCT's.


it would still depend on having pretty tight tags, but that's unavoidable.

just thinking out loud.

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[slim] Re: Duplicate albums titles from tags

2005-05-26 Thread kolding

jwgraves Wrote: 
 
 Here's the problem.  When 'browsing artists' a number of albums that
 are not by that artist appear in the list.  If I click on the album
 title, I then see a few songs (not all of them) with the other artists
 name displayed.  I have finally seen the pattern here.  The duplicate
 albums or songs are always titles that just happen to exist on an album
 by BOTH artists.  For example:  Footprints by Wayne Shorter and also by
 Miles Davis, on different albums.  When viewing albums by Wayne Shorter
 I see all of his albums PLUS the one additional album by Miles Davis
 that also has a track called Footprints.
 

On a similar note, I'd like to see a change happen where we could have
some way to tag albums by different artists that have the same name as
different.  SlimServer really only works on the album name, so Up by
Great Big Sea and Up by Peter Gabriel should get marked as separate
albums, but if you Browse by Album, you go into Up and see all the
songs.  And worse, you see them in track order, so you see track 1 from
one album, track 1 from the other, track 2 from the first, track 2 from
the second, etc, etc, etc...

It would be nice to be able to add some sort of AlbumID tag to work
around this.


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[slim] Re: Duplicate albums titles from tags

2005-05-26 Thread Dondi

kolding Wrote: 
 On a similar note, I'd like to see a change happen where we could have
 some way to tag albums by different artists that have the same name as
 different.  SlimServer really only works on the album name, so Up by
 Great Big Sea and Up by Peter Gabriel should get marked as separate
 albums, but if you Browse by Album, you go into Up and see all the
 songs.  And worse, you see them in track order, so you see track 1 from
 one album, track 1 from the other, track 2 from the first, track 2 from
 the second, etc, etc, etc...
 
 It would be nice to be able to add some sort of AlbumID tag to work
 around this.

This is exactly what the ALBUM ARTIST field is for and most Tagging
applications already utilize this field i.e., TagRename for example.


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