Bugzilla – Bug 1605
Problems with "Guess Tags"
Last modified: 2005-05-24 16:08:56 UTC
"Guess Tags" is working poorly for me. At present, I have 1191 WAV files, 454 MP3 files, 70 FLAC files and 4 WMA files. Generally these are stored as ARTIST\ALBUM\TRACKNUM TITLE. The WAV files were tagged by EAC, and the FLAC files by FLAC Front End. My music library is \\servername\Music. I have a few untagged WAV files that are songs by some friends of mine, and I can't get SlimServer to get the names right. Those files are missing TRACKNUM, but a line in my Guess Tags format handles that (ARTIST\ALBUM\TITLE). The problem is that Slimserver is treating "servername" as the artist name and "Music" as the album name. This means that all tracks have the actual artist name for the title. (In fact, I have also found that stray MP3s that lack artist or album tags being treated the same way.) Shouldn't SlimServer look at the entire file name (e.g. \\servername\Music\Beatles\Help\Another Girl.wav) and start from the end and work backward? At any rate, it should ignore the music library path if it's at the beginning of the file name. I tried JJZolx' suggestion of prepending my "Guess Tags" formats with two placeholders (e.g. "CT\GENRE\") to trick SlimServer into thinking that "servername" should be interpreted as content type, and "Music" should be interpreted as Genre, but that screwed up my entire library; I had fewer than half the songs as before, and my friends' songs (via browse by Artist) showed up as "0 albums with 4 songs by 1 artist", which is the right number of songs, but they were inaccessible. Further investigation showed other artists with the right number of songs, but the wrong number of albums. Songs on missing albums were inaccessible. My guess is that the total number of songs reported was the sum of those on accessible albums. The big question is, why is SlimServer bothering with the Guess Tags formats for tagged music?
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 1604 ***