Re: [slim] album artwork, tagging etc

2012-01-17 Thread Ron Olsen
DK_Dennis;683822 Wrote: > Could you run some sort of tagging program that lets you inspect the > tags ? > > I don't know what's best on Mac, but just to inspect if you have tags > at all, you could try TAG, http://sbooth.org/Tag/ > > Lets start with finding out if you have tags at all - or if s

Re: [slim] album artwork, tagging etc

2012-01-17 Thread jbloewheedle
The songs do seem to have tags. The ones that were not encoded using dbpoweramp just have the album, artist, date, genre, title, and track number (but not 1 of 8 for example, just track 1). The ones done by dbpoweramp seem to have everything. All the files have similar names, ie 01 A night on the

Re: [slim] album artwork, tagging etc

2012-01-14 Thread elstensoftware
I write bliss which does artwork and organizes files but a disclaimer: it is commercial above "100 fixes" (if fixing paths and artwork this costs two fixes per album so will fix fifty albums). Do the files have 'proper' names? Do they include the same artist or album information in the name that

Re: [slim] album artwork, tagging etc

2012-01-14 Thread DK_Dennis
Could you run some sort of tagging program that lets you inspect the tags ? I don't know what's best on Mac, but just to inspect if you have tags at all, you could try TAG, http://sbooth.org/Tag/ Lets start with finding out if you have tags at all - or if squeezebox server simply added them by f

Re: [slim] album artwork, tagging etc

2012-01-13 Thread jbloewheedle
I have to admit that my database is somewhat of a mystery. i think that it is because i converted to flac using 2 different programs (dbpoweramp and the other one I cant remember). the only thing that seems to read everything is squeezebox server, but without artwork. None of the other software se

Re: [slim] album artwork, tagging etc

2012-01-13 Thread DK_Dennis
Picard can do that. I've used it myself to get my own collection in "line".. http://musicbrainz.org/doc/MusicBrainz_Picard -- DK_Dennis DK_Dennis's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=50436 View this

[slim] album artwork, tagging etc

2012-01-13 Thread jbloewheedle
Hi: I am running squeezebox server on a Mac G5. All my music sits on an external hard drive and is 95% flac format files that have been converted from CD. Some were converted using dbpoweramp and some using another software (cant remember the name, it was shareware). The files that were done with

Re: [slim] Album Artwork

2010-04-25 Thread alZmtbr
Totally 'manual' via google images, works a treat, but not I guess if you are doing bulk ripping. I like the slow and easy approach! ~A -- alZmtbr alZmtbr's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8773 Vi

Re: [slim] Album Artwork

2010-04-25 Thread jo-wie
I use the Album Art Downloader http://sourceforge.net/projects/album-art/ -- jo-wie 2 * Classic, 1 * Boom, SC 7.5.1 auf GigaByte STA/C mit VIA C7 1GHz, 1GB RAM, 250 GB 2,5" HD, Ubuntu Desktop 8.04 LTS, CD -> FLAC = dbpoweramp, Mix MusicIP, Router AVM Fritz 3270 last.fm/user/jo-wie --

[slim] Album Artwork

2010-04-25 Thread rwwebb
Hi, I recently tried out this application http://www.blisshq.com/ . It works a treat. The first 500 are free and then you can by 1000 matches for 10 pounds or unlimited for 30 pounds. Great application. Rich -- rwwebb

[slim] Album Artwork

2010-04-25 Thread rwwebb
Hi, I recently tried out this application http://www.blisshq.com/ . It works a treat. The first 500 are free and then you can by 1000 matches for 10 pounds or unlimited for 30 pounds. Great application. Rich -- rwwebb

[slim] Album Artwork Problem

2008-09-10 Thread KDCgrp
I’m running my Duet with an HP MediaSmartServer as the music source. I have had continual problems with album artwork showing up in the ‘browse’ view. I have to select individual songs in order to see the artwork. I have FLAC files with a jpeg named ‘album’ in each folder corresponding with the

Re: [slim] Album Artwork - not appearing only in album view

2008-04-02 Thread Mark Lanctot
Which type of rescan are you using? You have to use a "clear and rescan", not a "look for new and changed" rescan. -- Mark Lanctot Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thr

[slim] Album Artwork - not appearing only in album view

2008-03-27 Thread markwm
If I add cover.jpg in the correct folder and then re-scan my library, when viewing by album the cover still doesn't appear. In order to get the artwork to appear I have click into the album and back out again. Is this a cache issue? and how can I get covers to appear in album view without clicking

Re: [slim] Album artwork not showing up

2008-01-21 Thread snoogly
Thanks for the tips. I went into advanced settings and added a bunch of alternative file names (lower and upper case initial letters), and now a lot more artwork is showing up. -- snoogly snoogly's Profile: http://forums.s

Re: [slim] Album artwork not showing up

2008-01-20 Thread jkeigs
Make sure that your file names start with lower-case letters also. I had an issue where my program was saving as Folder.jpg, had to go through and rename 50 or so as folder.jpg -- jkeigs jkeigs's Profile: http://forums.sl

Re: [slim] Album artwork not showing up

2008-01-19 Thread davep
A little more background on your set up would help but a couple of comments from my experience. First of all the standard namings that SC looks for are "cover.jpg", "albumartsmall.jpg", "folder.jpg", "album.jpg", or "thumb.jpg". If you want to use an alternative to one of these you can set that

[slim] Album artwork not showing up

2008-01-19 Thread snoogly
Sorry, but searching didn't help me much ... In the album view (sc7) only a few album artworks show up. (I am not linking to an iTunes library.) Should cover .jpg's be named in any particular way for them to show up? -- snoogly -

Re: [slim] Album Artwork not displaying on web interface

2007-12-15 Thread jkeigs
Here is my info SlimServer Version: 6.5.4 - 12568 - RedHat - EN - utf8 Perl Version: 5.8.5 i386-linux-thread-multi MySQL Version: 4.1.20 I clear and rescan about once a week. I can fix the problem by saving the artwork in the tag info, but it's pretty slow to save so it's frustrating and takes

Re: [slim] Album Artwork not displaying on web interface

2007-12-15 Thread funkstar
What version of SlimServer? What OS are you using? Try doing a full re-scan. I seem to remember a bug where the first scan produced problems with album art, subsequent scans were OK though. I can't remember when this was fixed though. -- funkstar ---

[slim] Album Artwork not displaying on web interface

2007-12-15 Thread jkeigs
I'm trying to setup my web interface and have noticed that some album covers don't display as thumbnails. The artwork is saved as folder in the folder of the music, and displays when I click on an album. Does anyone know a quick solution for this? Also, it seems to happen more often on album ar

Re: [slim] Album artwork bug?

2007-07-31 Thread Gibbo
I have this same problem, all albums have artwork as a jpg in the album folder, courtesy of mp3toys (if you are missing artwork use this!), when you go into the album, artwork is there, but on the main browse I get the big question marks. I've done a clear and rescan. How do you clear the cache

Re: [slim] Album artwork bug?

2007-07-30 Thread JJZolx
markwm;217993 Wrote: > I've been playing with my Album artwork in iTunes, I added some, then > removed it > > The result in Slim Server is this(see attachment). I've tried > re-scanning my library but still getting this odd thumbnail with black > background. The black background paceholder

[slim] Album artwork bug?

2007-07-30 Thread markwm
I've been playing with my Album artwork in iTunes, I added some, then removed it The result in Slim Server is this(see attachment). I've tried re-scanning my library but still getting this odd thumbnail with black background. +