MUSO - Support Thread

[jezbo]

Hi,

I just came across something else. I have a number of albums that are listed in the database, but are not available in the Browse views. For example I have 2 Grover Washington Albums. They are both are listed in the database but neither is available via the browse by genre or by artist (in fact Grover Washington isn't listed as an artist). In another case, I have 3 Charles Mingus albums, 2 of them are listed when I browse by genre or artist, but one is not. They are tagged like all other albums. They show up in LMS just fine. I have tried clearing the database in Muso and LMS and started from scratch, but it didn't make a difference.

The one thing that will cause them to show up is if I have Muso import from a directory, rather than sync with LMS.

Any ideas?

In these views muso will only show what it considers are "full" albums, so check your album qualification criteria (number of tracks and length of an album). Set the number of tracks to 1 if you don't want muso applying qualification criteria at all.

Perhaps synching with LMS there is a minor variation in artist or album name which causes Muso to split them into two or more albums which do not therefore qualify as "full" albums? It's something worth checking on the database view - ie. highlight all the tracks (via click and control-click) then hit the "Edit Selected" link - the fields with variations across the selected tracks are highlighted in grey/blue. You can edit the fields to set them consistently across all tracks which should cause them to be collated as one album.

[yorknh]

Nicely done The minimum number of tracks was set to 7, lowering it fixed the issue.

Thanks again for the speedy response!

[jezbo]

Nicely done The minimum number of tracks was set to 7, lowering it fixed the issue.

Thanks again for the speedy response!

Having all the tags set correctly also works, eg. if there are only 4 tracks in a full album, having track numbers 1 to 4 with the "Number of Tracks" set to 4 on each will also identify it as a full album, regardless of the minimum tracks setting.

[Mushroom_3]

My trial of Muso has expired and I did not register it for the following reasons:
1. Altering tags in Muso doesn't actually retag the file.
2. I use "sync with LMS" to update. Doing this manually (is there any other way?) only picks up new music. It does not find tracks with altered tags (done with mp3tag) or deleted tracks. The only solution I could find was to keep clearing everything and then resyncing. This makes any alterations in #1 pointless.

I may have missed something with the updating, but otherwise I thought it an excellent program. Visually far better than LMS web control. I do alter/delete/update tracks regularly so I don't think I am the target user.

[jezbo]

My trial of Muso has expired and I did not register it for the following reasons:
1. Altering tags in Muso doesn't actually retag the file.
2. I use "sync with LMS" to update. Doing this manually (is there any other way?) only picks up new music. It does not find tracks with altered tags (done with mp3tag) or deleted tracks. The only solution I could find was to keep clearing everything and then resyncing. This makes any alterations in #1 pointless.

I may have missed something with the updating, but otherwise I thought it an excellent program. Visually far better than LMS web control. I do alter/delete/update tracks regularly so I don't think I am the target user.

You manage this one of two ways:
(1) Make all your alterations in the muso database. As you rightly say this does not write to the track embedded tags but if you only ever use muso to browse your music, does this matter?
(2) Use mp3tag or similar to set your tags correctly, have LMS scan and pick up these tags, and synch regularly with muso. You can set an option in muso to say that LMS is the master, so it will bring in changed tags also. This way both LMS and muso is using consistently tagged data so you can use either to browse and play music.

Personally I prefer (1), I don't really care about the embedded tags.

[TheOctavist]

error code 2502 and 2503 during install.

windows 7 ultimate

[jezbo]

error code 2502 and 2503 during install.

windows 7 ultimate

That's fairly meaningless without the full context, but you could try to start the install in administrator mode.

[Axel Foley]

Hi,

I'm testing Muso, but I have the following problem with Albums containing multi-disc structure, here's an example of the structure of one of my albums:

q:\media\music\Davide Van De Sfroos\Best Of\CD1
q:\media\music\Davide Van De Sfroos\Best Of\CD2

Muso downloaded artwork for this album, but it creates musoCover.jpg into the root of the album:

q:\media\music\Davide Van De Sfroos\Best Of\musoCover.jpg

But LMS 7.7.1 after the rescan doesn't pick it up (it does for single disc albums, the problem is just related to multi-discs).

I guess that LMS is expecting the musoCover.jpg file to be where audio files are (CD1 & CD2 subdirs), but I didn't find any option in muso to cover this scenario.

My opinione is that muso is correct in creating it into the root of the album, but since LMS is not picking it up (bad design) I see no artwork when playing multi-disc albums on my Squeezeboxes.

Any advice, either on LMS or muso side?

If I manage to solve this problem I'll continue testing it and probably I'll buy the license, it's a nice piece of software...

Thanks for the help.

[jezbo]

Hi,

I'm testing Muso, but I have the following problem with Albums containing multi-disc structure, here's an example of the structure of one of my albums:

q:\media\music\Davide Van De Sfroos\Best Of\CD1
q:\media\music\Davide Van De Sfroos\Best Of\CD2

Muso downloaded artwork for this album, but it creates musoCover.jpg into the root of the album:

q:\media\music\Davide Van De Sfroos\musoCover.jpg

But LMS 7.7.1 after the rescan doesn't pick it up (it does for single disc albums, the problem is just related to multi-discs).

I guess that LMS is expecting the musoCover.jpg file to be where audio files are (CD1 & CD2 subdirs), but I didn't find any option in muso to cover this scenario.

My opinione is that muso is correct in creating it into the root of the album, but since LMS is not picking it up (bad design) I see no artwork when playing multi-disc albums on my Squeezeboxes.

Any advice, either on LMS or muso side?

If I manage to solve this problem I'll continue testing it and probably I'll buy the license, it's a nice piece of software...

Thanks for the help.

I think you mean the cover image is stored in
q:\media\music\Davide Van De Sfroos\Best Of\musoCover.jpg
It's in the parent folder since muso automatically recognises folders CD1, CD2 etc being sub-folders of a common parent which represents the album.

To be honest I didn't consider that the cover that muso puts in the album folder would be usable by LMS, that wasn't part of the design anyway. When you say you see no artwork, where do you mean? On the device itself?

[Axel Foley]

I think you mean the cover image is stored in
q:\media\music\Davide Van De Sfroos\Best Of\musoCover.jpg
It's in the parent folder since muso automatically recognises folders CD1, CD2 etc being sub-folders of a common parent which represents the album.

To be honest I didn't consider that the cover that muso puts in the album folder would be usable by LMS, that wasn't part of the design anyway. When you say you see no artwork, where do you mean? On the device itself?

You're right (I corrected the path in my post), it's under "Best Of", root of the album.

I liked muso also because it downloads artwork automatically and it creates musocover.jpg, and I configured LMS to lookup for this file also to import artwork, and it works perfectly for single-disc albums.

The problem is just on the LMS side: LMS is not picking up musocover.jpg from the root of multi-disc albums so I see the grat cd icon on LMS and Squeezebox.

On muso I see everything perfectly obviously.

I guess it would be better to ask this to LMS developers, but I thought that maybe you could have a quick solution/workaround for this scenario.

Thanks for the help.