Certain albums don't show up...

[Gary_W]

Hi all,

I've had my SB3 for a couple of months now and love it, but its behaviour occasionally drives me nuts.

I have iTunes and an iPod, hence lots of heavilly compressed albums on my drive. For the stuff that I want to listen to uncompressed, I simply add a folder with the flac files. Slimserver seems to either find it or not depending on its mood.

E.G. I have a Peter Gabriel folder with 3 aac encoded albums (So, Us and Up). I cannot get rid of these, as I want them for iPod purposes. I want the same three albums as flacs, so in the iTunes Peter Gabriel folder I put HQ So, HQ Us and HQ Up with the appropriate FLACs in them.

Slimserver finds HQ So but not the other two. Browsing the music folder finds them and plays the songs.

I have done full rescans. I have the latest 6.2.2 nightly. I have deleted the database and let it rebuild. Still won't find it.

It does exactly the same for several other artists.

Is it not acceptable to have 2 copies of the same album in different formats in the same artist folder? I always use the HQ prefix (for high quality).

Any help gratefully received.

Gary

[pedalvet]

I'm having some similar issues. Despite clear and rescan...some albums just never make it in to the database. However, I can find them by browsing the music folder. What's up with this?

[aubuti]

Check the tags on the albums that are giving problems. They are probably incomplete and/or messed up. Fix them using your favorite tagging tool, and then do a complete clear and rescan. Note that for FLACs, you want to be sure to use Vorbis comments, and not ID3 tags -- if you have both, slimserver gets confused.

Also, to make sure that you get them all, browse albums and look for entries under "No album". Likewise, browse artists and look for "No artist", browse genres for "No genre", etc.

[Gary_W]

Aubuti-

Thanks for the reply. I had checked the tags several times, but it's amazing the little things you miss. It was basically a mis-spelled artist name on all cases where the music wouldn't show up. Having the folder in the correct artist folder makes no odds if the tag is not 100% correct. I hadn't realised that until now...

Thanks again

Gary