Bugzilla – Bug 2350
Blank album names appearing at the start of Browse Album list
Last modified: 2008-09-15 14:37:04 UTC
I updated to svn 4734 and discovered that when browsing albums, I have a few blank entries appearing, followed by some incorrectly sorted album names, and some more blank entries. Obviously, I can't click on the blank entries, but I can click the play button to see what songs SlimServer has added to the blank album entries. I have five blank "album" entries in total, the first four containing songs from properly tagged albums (as far as I can tell). The last one seems to contain over 4000 songs. I noticed this problem immediately after updating and restarting SlimServer. I didn't rescan initially. I have since tried a complete rescan (deleted Cache folder), but the blank entries come back during the scan. I think it's something to do with tagging albums as "No Album" - I don't think I've got any now. Instead they are coming up as multiple blank entries. Perhaps there's some UTF-8 special characters in some of my album names (there was a recent change to support UTF-8 BOM), which SlimServer isn't seeing correctly.
This seems to have gone away after a full rescan with latest trunk 2005-10-24.
thanks. reopen if you find it coming back.
Noticed that I had a single blank album in my Browse Album list again this morning. I did a complete rescan and the blank album dissapeared. I've been playing a few things today, and notice that the blank album name has once again appeared. I think perhaps it could be if I play a song that is not tagged with an album - SlimServer perhaps checks the tags when a track is played, and tags it as belonging to a blank album?
can you play one of the blank albums and see what files come up in the playlist? blank tags, i think, used to get entered as "noalbum" and the skins to check for that and skip them in lists. However, if that has been dropped then skins need to check for blank tags instead.
Fixed in change 4955