Bugzilla – Bug 4229
Corrupted Album Display
Last modified: 2006-09-27 11:18:28 UTC
At one point I changed the Music Library in iTunes while a "Clear Library and Rescan" operation was underway. This corrupted the SlimServer data, which did not surprise me. However, I have completely deleted the entire SlimServer folder and reinstalled the latest version (6.5.1 - 10040), and the corruption is still there. I run SlimServer on a Windows 64-bit XP system where the music database resides. I access this SlimServer using Internet Explorer on another 32-bit Windows XP machine connected via a wired LAN. On the client version of IE, if I select "Albums", the album display has at least four problems: 1) the display includes the artist - for example, each entry is AlbumX by ArtistY, instead of just the album. If an album has multiple artists, the display is AlbumX by ArtistY1, ArtistY2, ... , ArtistYn. This is not correct. 2) the albums are in alphabetical order by Artist rather than by Album. 3) the list of index letters, which is normally A B C ... Z, has twelve Chinese characters at the end 4) the index letters do not correspond to either the Artist or the Album. There seems to be a roughly fixed number (a few hundred) albums per page, and each index letter just selects the next page. If I run the browser on the server machine (the one where SlimServer is running) everything is fine, which leads me to believe that the music database is not corrupted. The iTunes data display is also correct. I have rebooted both machines with no effect. The Artists display on both the client and the server is correct. There is not a SlimServer folder on the client (where a bad library could somehow be held).
1. album list WILL include artist, dependant on the 'showArtist' pref in server settings->formatting 2. if multiple contributors are found for a track, these are listed as comma-separated artists. 3. this is not unexpected if slimserver has found tracks that have unicode tags that happen to be chinese. make sure you don't have added podcasts, check files pointed to from playlists, or a folder setting that you hadn't expected, or even artist/year/genre tags if you have the album sort order pulldown set for something other than album. 4. this is a known issue when the album listing sort pulldown is set for anything other than 'album'. see bug 3350, I believe. This is determined by a client-stored cookie which is why the listings might appear differently for each location you browse from.
Subject: RE: Corrupted Album Display 1) The "Show Artist with Albums" preference is disabled (and I think always has been). 4) The "Sort Album" pulldown was set for "Artist, Album", so I can now see why this was happening. I never intentionally changed this, but something during the corruption must have changed it on the client and left the information in the cookie. Thanks, this is now fixed. Steve -----Original Message----- From: Slim Devices Bugzilla [mailto:bugs@bugs.slimdevices.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 1:28 AM To: steve.sheafor@alumni.rice.edu Subject: [Bug 4229] Corrupted Album Display https://bugs-archive.lyrion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4229 ------- Comment #1 from slim-mail@deane-freeman.com 2006-09-27 00:28 ------- 1. album list WILL include artist, dependant on the 'showArtist' pref in server settings->formatting 2. if multiple contributors are found for a track, these are listed as comma-separated artists. 3. this is not unexpected if slimserver has found tracks that have unicode tags that happen to be chinese. make sure you don't have added podcasts, check files pointed to from playlists, or a folder setting that you hadn't expected, or even artist/year/genre tags if you have the album sort order pulldown set for something other than album. 4. this is a known issue when the album listing sort pulldown is set for anything other than 'album'. see bug 3350, I believe. This is determined by a client-stored cookie which is why the listings might appear differently for each location you browse from. ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You reported the bug, or are watching the reporter.