Why is Slimserver including another directory?

[alstein]

Hi

After using my SB3 for a few weeks I decided to restrict the music folder to a directory containing only lossless files. The directory is on an external drive: F:\music-lossless. This is also my playlist folder. I eliminated all shortcuts in this directory which pointed to my main music directory C:\Users\user\music. That is the directory which has all my itunes music as well as other music files -approximately 4500 songs. I also deleted shortcuts in the main music directory which pointed to the lossless directory. However, strangely enough, after rescanning my music directory, slimserver says " Your music library contains 753 albums with 7884 songs by 820 artists." How is this possible when the total number of music files in my lossless music directory is approximately 2500?

[snarlydwarf]

Using the Itunes or MusicIP importers? Have playlists that refer to the other tracks?

[peterw]

Hi

After using my SB3 for a few weeks I decided to restrict the music folder to a directory containing only lossless files. The directory is on an external drive: F:\music-lossless. This is also my playlist folder. I eliminated all shortcuts in this directory which pointed to my main music directory C:\Users\user\music. That is the directory which has all my itunes music as well as other music files -approximately 4500 songs. I also deleted shortcuts in the main music directory which pointed to the lossless directory. However, strangely enough, after rescanning my music directory, slimserver says " Your music library contains 753 albums with 7884 songs by 820 artists." How is this possible when the total number of music files in my lossless music directory is approximately 2500?

You didn't say if you've disabled the iTunes plugin (and rescanned?). It would seem likely that SlimServer is reading the iTunes database and finding the music on C: that way.

[alstein]

Using the Itunes or MusicIP importers? Have playlists that refer to the other tracks?

I don't know what you mean by "iTunes importers" I use Itunes, but it is in a completely different directory with no shortcuts. However playlists are another issue. When I click on playlists in Slimserver, ythe right pane has my current playlist which is the last album I was listening to. On the left side it shows "Items 1 to 50 of 236 ...1 2 3 4 5". It is basically 236 separate albums. Could this be part of the problem? I never set up all these playlists. Should I delete them?

[alstein]

You didn't say if you've disabled the iTunes plugin (and rescanned?). It would seem likely that SlimServer is reading the iTunes database and finding the music on C: that way.

In basic settings I selected "do not use iTunes". However when I checked the plugins page, iTunes is checked.Should I uncheck this setting?

[snarlydwarf]

I don't know what you mean by "iTunes importers" I use Itunes, but it is in a completely different directory with no shortcuts. However playlists are another issue. When I click on playlists in Slimserver, ythe right pane has my current playlist which is the last album I was listening to. On the left side it shows "Items 1 to 50 of 236 ...1 2 3 4 5". It is basically 236 separate albums. Could this be part of the problem? I never set up all these playlists. Should I delete them?

Some rippers like making playlists of each album. I don't know why.

If those playlists point to your mp3's, then, yes, that will import them as well as the lossless files.

[alstein]

Some rippers like making playlists of each album. I don't know why.

If those playlists point to your mp3's, then, yes, that will import them as well as the lossless files.

Can I safely delete them? Also should I uncheck the iTunes plugin?

[snarlydwarf]

If you dont use them, sure, you can delete them.

(I don't know why anyone would use them.... if you store an album per directory like most people do, and which works best with virtually any player, they are pointless... "play all files in directory" does the same thing.)

[alstein]

If you dont use them, sure, you can delete them.

(I don't know why anyone would use them.... if you store an album per directory like most people do, and which works best with virtually any player, they are pointless... "play all files in directory" does the same thing.)

Tnanks. Unfortunately, all my .flac songs are stored in a separate directory, without any sub-directories for albums. I followed the instructions for ripping to flac in the wiki, and albums are extracted this way. I am easily able to see all the selections in an album sincce they are listed in order in the directory, but I have to do a fair amount of scrolliong when I want to verify if I've ripped an album and am using windows explorer. Is there any adviantage to my setting up separate sub-directories within my main directory?

[snarlydwarf]

It makes Browse Music Folder more useful if you organize things in a way that suits you. (And I guess Windows Explorer).

Common variants are "/Artist/Album/files..." or "/Genre/Artist/Album/files" or mix-matching (ie, top level being Artist if the artist has sufficient albums, with less-prolific artists tossed into a Genre or Mood folder). I do mix and match the two.

Most operating systems suck with large directories (taking more time to load/sort them than with smaller directories) so there can also be a performance advantage, though this would really only be seen after you have thousands of entries in a directory.

There isn't a "right way," of course, but personally I use Browse Music Folder a lot... I know (mostly) where my music is, and being able to look in "/Dylan/Covers" for oddball Dylan covers is useful.

(Note that 'Artist' above works best if it is "Album Artist"... splitting a given Various Artists album across directories is icky, IMHO. So a Dylan or Cohen cover album would be filed under Dylan or Cohen, despite neither actually appearing on it.)