Bugzilla – Bug 4243
Incorrect "No Album" Indication
Last modified: 2006-09-28 10:21:02 UTC
I am running SlimServer 6.5.1 - 10040. A number of songs and albums in my database are listed as "No Album" in SlimServer, although they all have albums in iTunes. In a database of ~18,000 songs, 83 currently have this problem. There are 7 complete albums marked this way(62 of the songs), 8 out of 14 songs in another album (which is a Compilation), and 13 songs which are each part of a (different for each one) Compilation album. I have looked carefully at everything iTunes can display about these songs, and there is nothing I can find which is unique about them. I installed the current version of SlimServer after deleting the SlimServer folder, and the "No Album" songs remained constant. I tried changing the album name of some songs in iTunes, and then doing a "Clear Library and Rescan", but this also had no effect. I cannot be 100% certain, but I do not believe this occurred in SlimServer 6.3.1.
Were all your tracks ripped with iTunes? What iTunes version are you running? Is it the same as the version you ripped the songs with? Could I trouble you to upload a copy of your iTunes xml file? On windows systems it's in C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents\My Music\iTunes\iTunes Music Library.xml Thanks!
Created attachment 1600 [details] My iTunes Library My library as requested.
I have uploaded the XML file. I am currently running iTunes 7.0.0.70. The songs in question came from a variety of sources. Four of the complete albums were ripped with various versions of iTunes (4.9.0.17, 5.0.0.35, 6.0.1.3, 6.0.4.2), as was the one "partial" album. Two other complete albums were downloaded from AllofMP3.com (encoded with LAME3.93). The final complete album was downloaded from an artist's web site (encoded with iTunes 4.6). All of the individual songs are old files downloaded several years ago from MP3.com (all encoded with mp3.com). This variety is basically like my library as a whole, although I have a much higher percentage of songs ripped in iTunes. I am in the process of assembling information on what may be a different bug, but it is much like this one so I will add the information here. In this case songs are incorrectly reported as "No Artist" but there is clearly an Artist in iTunes. There are 37 songs in this category. Five of these are individual songs in compilations, all of which came from MP3.com. A sixth is a single song in an album ripped using iTunes 4.9.0.17. The other 31 tracks are listed as "No Album", and these are all in the "No Album" listing above - one of the full albums from AllofMP3.com, all of the individual songs, the song from the artist's site, an album ripped using iTunes 4.9.0.17, and one of the songs from the "partial" album. This all seems really random, and I cannot see anything about these files which are different from all of my other files. I did try one interesting experiment, however. Earlier, there were a few more songs in "No Artist", and I noticed that in two cases there was a single track from an album. When I looked in detail, I noticed that in both cases the track did not have Artwork although all other tracks from the album did have Artwork. When I added the artwork to the tracks and did a "Clear Library and Rescan", these tracks now had the correct Artist. In addition, there was an entire album which was in "No Artist". It already had artwork for all the tracks, but I added artwork to them all again and then its Artist was correct. Some of the remaining problem songs have artwork and some don't, and I have not tried this experment for all of them, but I did remove artwork from some (to make an album consistently have no Artwork) and that made no difference. I will try adding Artwork to more of the tracks to see if this matters. I never remember seeing any of this happen with SlimServer 6.3.1.
I tried the experiment with Artwork, adding the artwork again to two albums (which already had artwork, so this shouldn't have really changed anything in the database) which had previously been both "No Artist" and "No Album", and both are now correct.
In a further experiment, I added artwork to two "No Artist" and/or "No Album" albums, and deleted artwork from all tracks on two others. In every case, after a "Clear Library and Rescan" each of these albums was now correct.
I downloaded the latest version of SlimServer (6.5.1 - 10078) and all of the "No Artist" and "No Album" problems are gone. I assume this fixed the "Guesstags" problem. Thanks.
thanks for the report.