mherger wrote:
have you ever considered the opportunity to look for a specific TAG
(and
metadata in .cue by the way) named i.e. Library or subLibrary
or...someOtherFancyNameHere as a symple and completely automated base
for generate virtualLibraries at scan time?
Hmm... interesting
You certainly can enter TPE2 as band in Mp3Tag and Foobar. There is an
option in Mp3tag to map the field accordingly. I'll check when I get
home.
Band works in FLAC tags too.
LMS can read TPE2 and interpret it as either Band/Orchestra or Album
Artist depending on a setting. Foobar and Mp3Tag
mherger wrote:
Ok, I did some work on the Advanced Search. Please update to the latest
builds and give this some good testing:
Could offer buttons on the search/advanced search pages to Save as
Favourite or Save as custom library.
You can now save searchs to be re-run, as well as as
I believe COMPILATION=0 was used for people who have albums with the
same name in the same folder (iTunes defaulted to this). The albums
would be merged into one, and if the artists were different, the album
would be auto detected as a comp, Various Artists.
Setting COMPILATION=0 forced an album
IIRC, when a compilation tag is present, this always results in artist
roles, rather than track artist roles.
Should not use compilation=0.
In my experience, when the scanner has read a comp flag for an album, it
will not detect a change upon rescan. Moving to a different source
folder will cause
The point is that there could be songs by 'various artists', not just an
album artist representing a compilation album.
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IMHO this is working as designed. You're filtering by role
albumartist. Why would you want to find albums on which they are not
of this role? Would you expect to see any of an album artist's
contributions to any album, even if he wasn't the album artist there?
If that's
JJZolx wrote:
It was this discussion:
And it once again comes back around to my contention that there need to
album artist role(s) for every album, stored in the database, not
figured out on the fly in code.
I agree, except there should be AT LEAST one album artist role for every
album.
Both are lists of artists, used to get to a list of albums that that
artist has involvement on. The original list of artists could be
configured to be a full list, or a sub-set in various ways, but required
changing the server settings in the web UI. Now it is possible to have
two lists to avoid
Okay, I'll try wiping cache. What is the cache expiry policy set to,
just out of interest?
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I'm not even sure of the relevance of filtering for a contributor with
specific roles.
I can obviously understand show me all albums by contributor X,
returning albums where they have any role. But why apply a contributor
type filter - the results seem weird. Especially in the case where you
JJZolx wrote:
So, you're right, in these cases not all compilations would necessarily
be located under the VA. But it's because someone is explicitly tagging
them so that they won't be located there.
But isn't this how Browse Artists Various Artists works now? It lists
compilation albums,
JJZolx wrote:
That logic would remain. You either have 1) an album artist is
explicitly set in the tagging, 2) the album is determined to be
compilation, with no explicit album artist, and the album artist is set
to the various artist, or 3) all artists on all tracks are the same, and
But if there is a different artist on each track, how would it set a
single album artist to represent the album? It does that now by setting
album artist to Various Artists and indicates it is a compilation. If
it simply set album artist to the track artist for each track, you would
have many 1
mherger wrote:
You probably can get the 64 bit version to run on Windows, but you will
need to compile a lot of the binaries yourself. Do yourself a favour and
run perl 32 bit. It will run out of the box (it's how we are developing
on Windows)
Okay, I didn't realise there would be a problem
gharris999 wrote:
This is a bug, I think. Modify line 16 in CPAN\Compress\Raw\Zlib.pm.
Change it to:
$VERSION = '2.037';
Then you'll be able to install plugins using the extension downloader.
I have no idea why this only crops up with the git code on windows.
I'll have a go at this
experience a couple of months
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, or every track is by Robert Plant Alison Krauss, then the
album is not a compilation. If some tracks are by Robert Plant, and
some tracks are by Alison Krauss, then it would be a compilation album
(unless tagged to say otherwise).
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players, and was extended.
Same goes for iTunes, which love it or loathe it is popular, but mainly
only for people who own iPods.
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want to browse.
It has been designed for browsing a filtered set of albums. i.e. you
select an artist, and then see only albums relating to that artist.
For that reason, it's been designed to show only a list of artists that
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formats and visualisers, which I don't
like much.
How would the user cycle through them on a player with an IR Remote,
with the Touch interface, through the CLI for other third-party
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as a Compilation, because
it has no concept of compilations. I think it would show a list of
duplicated album titles, when you go to browse a list of albums.
SBS has been intelligent when there's not enough info, to keep the
album tracks together as a collection.
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disappear.
Providing that it is still possible to see a list of artists (that are
album artists only), but clicking on an artist could show all albums
that the user has involvement on (i.e. where the artist is an album
artist or a track artist).
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not that the scanner hasn't seen
that the file has changed, but that it doesn't apply the change to all
affected artists, albums, genres, etc.
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Is MySQL supported in this 7.6 version yet, or is it still functional
with SQLite only?
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I didn't see anything relevant in the checkin comments - maybe a change
was done further in the past; I haven't scanned for a while.
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via Browse Genres [choose a genre]
Various Artists, to find for example Rock Compilation albums. i.e. they
are not necessarily all stuck in one generic category - they work like
normal albums, but with an extra propery that allows them to be
separated out if wanted.
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as a compilation, when the first song is
processed, it creates an album that is not a compilation, and then the
next song with a different artist would make it a compilation. After
that, it's already marked as a compilation, so it stops early when
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, they all get lumped into an uber No Album
album, which becomes a compilation album.
My No Album is huge (2005 songs), as I have ripped lots of single
songs and don't want a proliferation of albums with a single song on
them.
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optionally MySQL, but it doesn't work ;-)
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itself back on through upgrades settings migration,
etc).
The syncing destroys player settings on SBS where things are not
available in MySB.com. Syncing needs to be much more intelligent before
I go anywhere near it again.
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meant if there were more than one file. If there's only one, then
use it, if there's more than one, and none match the names that the
scanner would usually look for, then don't arbitrarily pick any of them.
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write the tags back as id3v2
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to
hide apps that the user has no interest in would be good too. Perhaps
some way of displaying apps in some order would be good.
Will users expect to find a way to Upgrade Apps, Uninstall Apps,
find the version of their installed App?
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Sorry, I should have mentioned that this ocurred when running
7.4/trunk.
I am testing a separate build with noweb-sqlite, but as I've been
having trouble with that I'm running 7.4/trunk as my main server still.
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as the year, in that case?
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needs to effectively do the reverse
M-1 mapping when not sorting by album title, so it will not work without
assumptions or more data that is not available with standard tags.
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, and the behaviour is
deterministic.
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would be better?
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the current playlist.
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of the 80's by Various Artists
Best of the 90's by Various Artists
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SB3
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displayed.
I can't check exactly what SVN version I have until I get home; but I
updated last night (about 20:00 GMT). There were quite a lot of
changes that I picked up (hadn't done an update for about 4 days), but
I didn't notice anything specific about screensavers or times, etc.
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into different music
applications/rippers installed with default settings, to see how they
tag songs when ripping an album that has a guest performer on a single
track, how such an album would be presented in those apps and in SC,
and how many users actually care.
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, but most tools do obey the
creation/modification timestamps, as it's a function of the OS, not the
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maintains the creation time and SC were to use it, then we'd at least
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I also notice that single pressing left-arrow 5 times quickly causes the
same action as press-and-hold left-arrow.
So, when I'm browsing deep into menus and click left a few times to go
back, occasionally I end up in the now playing screen.
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I played the favorite, it played just the songs on that greatest hits
album, not all greatest hits albums. So, I didn't understand why it
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Michael Herger;253361 Wrote:
It's a Dell Axim X50 - 240x320.
Please keep in mind that your font settings might influence the layout
as well. Still no screenshot?
Sorry, forgot - will try to get a screenshot tonight when I'm in.
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playback. I have monitored the debug log for activity. I
think on some occasions I have left Slimserver running for days before
trying to open the WebUI ;)
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Personally, I despise the alpha page bar, and would love to get rid of it.
I'm sure Dean doesn't agree. However, I'd like to start a discussion on
alternatives. Obviously the numeric pagebar is available, but not extremely
useful. Other thoughts?
I can't think of any alternatives that would work
I'm not sure if there is a bug in 6.2.2.
I have a playlist called coverville. I add songs to the end of the playlist
physical file, and the songs get added into the slimserver playlist upon a
rescan. When I have listened to songs from the start of the playlist, I zap
them, and delete the
This seems to happen about once every couple days. Some details about
today's occurrence:
- I'm running yesterday's build (SlimServer_v2005-11-13.exe) on w2k3.
- Some web radio station was playing (on SqueezeBox2), and suddenly
stopped.
- At that point, slim.exe was pegged at 100% CPU, and
Just FYI - the trunk or development tree of SlimServer has gone unstable.
Please only use this tree/build if you can/will debug _and_ fix things. :)
Otherwise, use the 6.2.1 branch builds.
I'm getting closer to being able to chip in with fixes, but I'm still on a
steep learning curve, so I've
When I rename a playlist and return to Browse Playlists, the old name for the
playlist is still displayed. If I redisplay the browser, I still see the old
name.
I find that if I then select to edit the playlist a second time, and then click
on the Browse Playlists PWD entry (making no
Bug: 2409
Description: groupdiscs, multiple items in tags and ignore articles
for sorting all require rescans for changes to take effect. When
these settings are changed, automatically start a scan and indicate
that this is going to happen in the setting description;
I find implicit rescans a
The version is being reported as 6.5b1 trunk. Is this correct? If so, could
someone add the version number to bugzilla? The highest version that I can
pick is 6.2.1.
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I tried applying Michael Herger's patch for bug 2361, but it seems as if the
handheld skin is currently completely broken.
I can't get anything at all when I enter http://localhost:9000/Handheld.
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Yes, it is. If you don't want to wait until I check in another rework,
just remove the line with reference to styles.html from the cmdwrappers
file.
Ah. Working again.
However, the patch for 2361 doesn't work. As I have done a rescan, I only
currently have 15 played songs, each played
There have been some fixes recently for cue sheet support. This has fixed my
bug report 2234, which was caused because artwork was associated with the first
song on an album, which happened to be the container file previously. Now only
the actual tracks are listed under the album, and thus
Updated this morning and Album tagging still appears to be broken.
I think it's something to do with the No Album tag - I don't think I've got
any now. Instead they are coming up as multiple blank entries.
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Thanks Phil - I'll get this fixed.
Here's another one:
Operation `': no method found, argument in overloaded package
Class::DBI::Object::Has::Been::Deleted at
P:/Music/SlimServer/trunk/server/Slim/Music/Info.pm line 1591.
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Operation `': no method found, argument in overloaded package
Class::DBI::Object::Has::Been::Deleted at
P:/Music/SlimServer/trunk/server/Slim/Music/Info.pm line 1591.
Any clues on how you made this happen?
I think this is the whole story:
I was playing Random Songs. A song came on that I
I moved the .mp3 files of a couple of albums to a different folder and later
tried to browse the albums via Browse Albums on the Web UI.
The first album navigated to the album, but did not display any artwork or
songs, as would be expected (nb. perhaps a message could be displayed to
indicate
A few days ago, the total number of disks was being displayed in the format as
DISC/DISCC-TRACKNUM. TITLE, when actually the display format requested was
DISC-TRACKNUM. TITLE. I was about to raise a bug, but it seems to have been
fixed. I prefer it as it is now without the /nn total number of
1. Browse Music Folder (both Web UI and player UI) - under WinXP, any
shortcuts (.lnk files) are not browsable. I just see song info for
the link file; it doesn't follow the link to the destination folder.
2. Browse Artists - I have regular band names A-Z sorted, then artists
with an
Is capturing stdout and stderr really all that necessary? In every
case where I've had SlimServer crash, I've found the reason in the logs
that SlimServer creates.
When I've enabled some debug options, opened http://localhost:9000/log.txt,
then stopped the service and opened
Add basic Lyrics support to the WebUI - what's this then? I haven't seen
this yet.
There's a very long list of bug fixes for this release! How long until it
becomes an official release for the masses?
I'm still seeing some irritating problems:
1. Browse Music Folder (both Web UI and player
After a crash, go look at the actual log file as written to disk.
Where would that be located? I had a look around for it, but couldn't see
anything obvious.
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I am using svn 4646.
If I use the Web UI initially to browse New Music, it works as expected.
If I use the SqueezeBox to browse New Music, I get a list of 101 entries. If I
go into one of the new entries, instead of seeing all songs on the selected
album, I see 836 items (I think it is
I have changed my setup so that errors get redirected to a file. As this
didn't work directly from the srvany Application registry setting, I instead
get that to launch a .bat script. The script then does the following:
perl -w P:\Music\SlimServer\trunk\server\slimserver.pl
Just had a crash:
Can't locate object method id via package
Class::DBI::Object::Has::Been::Deleted at
P:/Music/SlimServer/trunk/server/Slim/DataStores/Base.pm line 65.
Not sure if this is related to the browse New Music problem, but it happened
when I clicked on an album under Browse New
BMF seems to be displaying properties of symbolic links, rather than going to
the folder path.
This is the same problem on both Web UI and Player UI.
Trunk 4646 Win XP.
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Did you recently change the metadata for that album?
The music was added to a folder yesterday evening. My timed nightly scan
occured at 3am, and then 10 hours or so later, I tried to navigate to the album
(crashed before I tried to play it). I don't believe I changed any of the tags
for
I haven't tried turning on debug options yet - would those get logged by
slimserver to another file, and/or get written to stdout?
They get logged to a file that you specify.
I tried it out earlier today. The selected debug options are written to the
file that can be browsed via
I have changed my setup so that errors get redirected to a file. As this
didn't work directly from the srvany Application registry setting, I instead
get that to launch a .bat script. The script then does the following:
perl -w P:\Music\SlimServer\trunk\server\slimserver.pl
This seems really valuable to me. I have yet to really go through the
wiki run perl as a service stuff, but hope to this week. So my vote
is, yes, add this to the wiki. I'm sure I'll find it usefull when I
rebuild my slimserver this coming week.
I updated the wiki, but then when I checked my
I tried deleting the cache folder and rescanning, but slimserver crashes with
the same error early into the scan.
I have reverted back to 4605, which I know was stable.
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I had my first SlimServer crash today, since switching over from using the
windows exe nightly downloads to using svn/trunk.
I have no idea why SlimServer crashed - no errors are reported in the Windows
Application Event Log. I assume that as perl is running from srvany.exe (I'm
running as a
I was playing a track, which reported a track length of 05:05. The track
played fine, but then started to play the next song without updating the
display, which was still trying to report progress through the previous track.
The progress bar was at 100%, and the time remaining reported
Quite frequently as of a couple of weeks ago but it seemed to have gone
last time I updated the version (about a week ago) and did a full
rescan.
My problem happened with svn 4600. I don't frequently use SoftSqueeze, but I
was suprised that it had only gone up a single beta release number since
I thought an effort was being made to make full rescans required less often -
is this for 6.2?
I just updated some tags and performed the partial rescan; in particular I'm
changing an ARTIST tag for a song that is by more than one artist.
For example, I have a song called Chill Out (Things
I'm sure this was working until recently, but I haven't looked down through
artists beginning with Z for some time ;)
I just noticed that I have a load of artists that have been incorrectly sorted.
It looks like I have a complete sorted list of artists (obeying the ARTISTSORT
when the tag is
I'm not certain that it's necessary, but I always stop the Windows
service before performing a SVN update. This can be conveniently done
from slimtray, then start SlimServer up again afterwards. Prior to
doing this, I'd often get an error while doing the update, as
TortoiseSVN was unable to
That sounds wrong, I'm not sure what the problem is though. Does it
ever complete?
It seems to be stuck on P:\Music\Simserver\trunk\tests\data\unicode\Run from
Love English.wma
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You're checking out too much. You only want to start at
http://svn.slimdevices.com/trunk/server/. You're currently trying to
pull down a large wma file I would imagine.
Okay, I stopped checkout, deleted my local copy, created a server folder and
did an SVN checkout of
When searching Slimserver 6.2 (9/24) and all results do not fit on one
page, not all results are displayed. For example it returns that 37
songs are found, but only 12 are in the list, and there is no next
page link. Only when using advanced search a correct list is given
(including next-page
I'd suggest trying
the built-in alarm for a few days and see if you have the same issues,
since you seem to be hitting it more regularly than I.
I've switched back to the built-in alarm, and the same thing happened this
morning. About 75% into a 30 min track, the music just stopped. No
snooze, a different 'now playing' display. web settings for shuffled
or not shuffled. settings for a one time only alarm, and also web
settings for a specific date only.
Hmm, I think I must have an out-dated plugin - I'll download the latest version
and check it out!
I moved to using the
I notice that if I display the music library statistics (via the Fishbone
skin), there are now play next, play and add buttons for the Most Requested
tracks, and clickable links for the songs.
Bugs/Enhancement requests:
1. When I click the Statistics link to bring up the display, this
I notice that when I now click the undock button for a player, I am prompted
for the site password. I don't recall having to do this in the past - is it
necessary?
The undock window itself - is the settings button neceessary here? If clicked,
it opens another window (without prompting for
shouldn't be doing that. for me, in Opera, IE, Firefox AND safari, it opens in
the same frame that server settings opens and the browse stuff.
Ah. You're right. It does reuse the window. But it opens a new window if the
original was closed, or you happen to be using the unsupported dedicated
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