Bugzilla – Bug 16832
TinySC misreads folder names during rescan
Last modified: 2019-01-25 10:11:09 UTC
Not able to rebuild Library after downloading songs and re-attaching Hard drive. [Incident: 110125-002239 Hello Alex, I would actually urge you to open this as a bug report for our Engineers, and I'll give them the bug number to work on. Our public bug site is https://bugs-archive.lyrion.org I feel you would do a better job of describing the issue than I would. Trevor Featherby Logitech Technical Support Manager Customer (Alex Atkins) 01/27/2011 08:41 AM Trevor OK. It is a given that AIFF typically do not contain tags. Seriously, it is not worth spending hundreds hours adding tags. I bought the squeezebox because I prefer high quality music files and don't want to have iTunes monopolize how I listen to and organize my music. I am perfectly happy with my setup. I create a folder with the album name that includes the artist and the album name (eg Brightman Sarah - Harem) and I just copy the contents of my CD (in native AIFF format) right into that folder. Bingo - I am done. So far the TinySC reads the folder name 100% of the time, and lists the name of the song. I really don't care if the artist line is "sda1" or "no artist". This is very satisfactory performance from my perspective. My only questions is why the server gets confused upon rescans, and forgets or "incorrectly guesses" or cannot simply list the name of the folder. Again, my workaround is to purge the memory by resetting to factory settings and reinstall the drive. To me, the inability to simply read a folder name is a bug. If that cannot be fixed, why not have an additional menu item on the TinySC that simply rebuilds the music catalog (and purges the memory of the old, pre-existing catalog). Is this a reasonable thing to expect from the squeezebox? Alex
Can you explain what you mean by rescans. Are you actually invoking a rescan? And how does it get confused? If you can provide a little more detail it may be possible to understand what is going wrong. I do realise that this is not what you want to hear, but the whole basis behind library browsing on a Squeezebox is to use tags and the scanned library. Browsing by music folder is, and has always been, very much a second-class access method that has been grafted on after the fact and does not sit well with the rest of the system. Another idea. It may actually be pretty easy to get a tagger program to automatically add tags to your library. Many of them will do this based on the directory and file names in the pathname. On Linux, easytag would do this, although I'm not sure if it handles AIFF files. Converting AIFF to FLAC in a single, bulk operation, would be a pretty easy exercise.
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