several problems with slimserver

[Havoc]

I started again with slimserver after a HD crash and some troubles installing. But everything is on the pc now, it starts and I can access from another pc with a browser.

Now the pc runs gentoo, SlimServer Version: 6.5.0 - 9916 - Linux - EN - iso-8859-1, Perl Version: 5.8.8 i586-linux, MySQL Version: 5.0.21-standard.

The music is all in a volume under LVM2. It is mounted at startup under /muziek. I added 2 cd's that were ripped on my main pc with grip and the tags edited with easytag-1.99.12. Nothing special, a single pop cd and a jazz cd. Only special thing is that the jazz cd has "composer" tags added.

Now, I have "cleared and rescanned" the library for about 20 times. Changed the owner and group of the directories to "slim", but both disks still don't show up properly.

The pop cd is listed as "no album" "no artist". When checking, all the tags do list an album and an artist.

The jazz cd is listed correctly, but I cannot use the "composer" tag. (yes, I checked it in the settings/behaviour together with "conductor" and "band/orchestra") Have re-written the tags as well for both cd's.

However, it does list the composer as another artist...

- Is this a tag problem? Don't think so because the tags on the jazz cd are interpreted fine.
- Listing the composer as an artist, is this normal? Why not adding a "browse" entry for composer? That would make sense.
- You cannot search for a composer. Is this intended or part of the problem?
- Is this only a problem on the linux version?

[Havoc]

This is getting worse.

- when I add music to the library and the "clear database and rescan", it keeps the old database. Even deleted albums are kept. When I got to the music library, then all albums are seen. If I go into the directories, I see the songs. When I then go back to the "album" view, the albums are added in the database. But only if I go manually into the directories. Restart (only slim or the whole pc) makes no difference)

- the album "snapshots" by "eleanore mc evoy" is always listed as "no album" by no artist". Ripped with different apps on different pc's, whatever type of tag. If anyone can explain this I'll be glad to hear it.

[Mark Lanctot]

Still doesn't sound like your tags are right. Are you using both ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags? Use only ID3v2.

[Havoc]

Give that a try.

Update: no change. The CD remains "no album" by "no artist" after re-writing all the tags in only ID3v2. And other albums appear only after going to the using the "music folder" entry. Clearing the database and rescanning does just nothing.