Bugzilla – Bug 8762
Many bugs in how SC tallies / counts and displays tracks.
Last modified: 2008-07-17 03:10:07 UTC
i think it would be silly to retype everything said in this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49429 but the heart of the issue is that SC needs a way to compare physical file counts to what it tells the user is available. SC often seemingly contradicts itself in this regard, as well as command window listings. my 4 screenshots illustrate the problems pretty well.
Please provide a _short_ description with all necessary information. That thread's SNR is way too low to expect anyone to understand what it's really about.
its hard to provide a "short" description because so many bugs are converging. essentially, i don't trust what SC tells me about how many tracks i have, how many albums, how many artists, etc... it contradicts itself and it contradicts what a dir command in a terminal window tells me. in my case its heavily related to bug 8380, but i believe that what i am describing here could happen due to all kinds of unrelated possible errors, including ones we can't predict/envision here. you had said there was a bug enh or something about this already, but you never said where. so what i am trying to do here is both illustrate the problem, (in this particular premutation) and suggest a solution that would solve ANY possible error scenario, not just this one. i'll post my screenshots here next so you can see what i'm talking about.
Created attachment 3606 [details] first screenshot these results are when i had "guess tag formats" set to pickup basically all my albums as a workaround for bug 8380. notice we are on the album art page. dos = 23693 album art summary = 23693, 1975 albums, 2662 artists HOWEVER, the status page says: 23694 (where did it get an extra file from?), 1976 (and an extra album?) 686 artists (so, 686 or 2662?)
Created attachment 3607 [details] second screenshot second screenshot these results are when i had "guess tag formats" set to pickup basically all my albums as a workaround for bug 8380. notice we are now on the home page. dos = 23693 home page summary = 23694, 1976 albums, 686 artists so NOW it agrees with the status page, and has the extra song, (and i assume extra album) and same number of artists. both this screenshot and the first one were made on the same clear and rescan. in the next two comments i'll show you the results i got using the DEFAULT values for "guess tag format"
Created attachment 3608 [details] third screenshot these results (and the next screenshot) are for when i did a clear and rescan and had DEFAULT VALUES for "guess tag formats" in SC. notice we are still on the home page. dos = 23693 home page summary = 23694, 1954 albums, 678 artists again, it agrees with the status page, and has the extra song however this time, it has 8 less artists and 22 less albums. (wish i knew which ones) how it got to the same number of songs with fewer artists and albums i just don't get.
i made a mistake in what i wrote. can someone please delete comment 5 and this one, (comment 6), and i will do it again?
as per michael h, i am closing this bug as invalid and opening a new one. sorry for the mistake. frankly, i'd like to be able to edit my own bug comments so i didn't have to do this all over again, its very frustrating.
please see it here: https://bugs-archive.lyrion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8764