Any work on LMS 7.8 anymore?

[frank1969]

Hi,
I'm a "little" worried when - or even IF - things go on with LMS.

I don't see any work / nightlies for one week - although the current nightly has some very ugly bugs (eg. adding files to an existing folder/album deletes cover art - this is definitely a new bug and very disgusting, eg if You're adding Bonus Tracks to an album) - and I even don't see any posts here...

Something's going wrong?

Last thing I remember is mherger telling us they're even looking for new engineers/programmers ...

Help! :-)

I like LMS very much and I'm still hoping for a good "working" new version..

Thanks!

[slate]

yes it has been quiet lately, at the moment they are working on getting the build enviroment working again after the shift to new version handling enviroment.

[mherger]

> I don't see any work / nightlies for one week - although the current
> nightly has some very ugly bugs (eg. adding files to an existing
> folder/album deletes cover art - this is definitely a new bug and very
> disgusting, eg if You're adding Bonus Tracks to an album) - and I even
> don't see any posts here...

Any idea which nightly introduce this issue? Or which one was the last
which was working fine for you?

--

Michael

[frank1969]

>Any idea which nightly introduce this issue? Or which one was the last
which was working fine for you?

Not quite sure, Michael, I think it happened some weeks ago, might be 33930 oder 33932 - I'll try to test with an old copy when I do my next update.

Description:
Before: MP3 files of one album in one folder - embedded artwork and folder.jpg in folder => artwork is shown

Change:
Adding some tracks to the folder (with the same artwork embedded as the other ones, folder.jpg stays unchanged) - only change made to the existing tracks, is changing the track-tag from (eg. 01/10, 02/10... to 01/14, 02/14).
All other tags are the same (album, albumartist ...)

Result:
The "old" tracks are shown with the default grey "cover art work symbol",
the "new" tracks are shown as a separate album (with the same name) and the correct cover art...

[frank1969]

Just tested with 7.8.0 - r33930

This contains already "half of the bug":

1. Browsing for "New music" ( http://127.0.0.1:9000/clixmlbrowser/...=&index=&sess= ) shows the whole album "in one part" and with cover art correctly


BUT

2. If You "click" on the album, browsing to => http://127.0.0.1:9000/clixmlbrowser/...&player=&sess= <=
the cover art is lost (default cover art is shown)

BUT BUT

3. If You click e.g. on the first track => http://127.0.0.1:9000/clixmlbrowser/...&player=&sess= <=
it is shown WITH correct cover art again...

Thanks for caring for this!

[Mnyb]

Not quite sure, Michael, I think it happened some weeks ago, might be 33930 oder 33932 - I'll try to test with an old copy when I do my next update.

Description:
Before: MP3 files of one album in one folder - embedded artwork and folder.jpg in folder => artwork is shown

Change:
Adding some tracks to the folder (with the same artwork embedded as the other ones, folder.jpg stays unchanged) - only change made to the existing tracks, is changing the track-tag from (eg. 01/10, 02/10... to 01/14, 02/14).
All other tags are the same (album, albumartist ...)

Result:
The "old" tracks are shown with the default grey "cover art work symbol",
the "new" tracks are shown as a separate album (with the same name) and the correct cover art...

Thoughts .

You are aware of that embedded art have precedence over cover.jpg so as long as there is an embedded art tag it wins it does not matter if you have a file .

I would make a tag change on all album files ( new an old ) so that they get the same time stamp .

I would make sure that there is no difference In tagging re new vs old files , using mp3tag or puddle tag .

Make sure that I embed the same art in all files ( with the exception of albums with track art, LMS handles track art very buggy , but that is another bug )

Or you sure this a new behaviour , it is very similar to the many other scenarios where you end up with double albums after a tag change and " scan for new and changed " .
This usually fixes itself after a " clear and rescan ".

I would say that " fixing " existing albums pretty much always gives you weird entries in LMS like double albums .
Quite surprised that you have not seen this before ?

But it is a good one as you found a bug where new and old file separate in two albums in some sort of predicable and reproducible manner, maybe it helps Michael to analyse this .

If they are still giving you separate albums/no artwork after a "clear and rescan" I would suspect the tagging.
If this is only a problem after an incremental scan , I would say it is LMS not entirely predictable " new and changed " scan.
"New" is mostly ok ,the " changed " part is somewhat random .

[frank1969]

Thanks for Your thoughts, but I'm very sure it's a new behaviour. I'm working in the music industry as a professional so I quite often get re-editions of albums and have to add bonus tracks.

Of course I double checked all tags - they are the same for the whole album. And the folder.jpg is the same as the embedded so it wouldn't mind which one is shown - but it actually shows none.

And after a clean re-scan everything is fine again, all covers are shown (till the next change) so I'm pretty sure "my" tags are fine... ;-)

[Meridion]

When I add tracks to an existing album or change a filename of an album with my 7.7.3 LMS and issue a rescan, two new albums get added with the same name as the previously existing album. On album contains the new/changed tracks and the other album contains the unchanged tracks.

This behaviour does not seem to be restricted to 7.8 beta.

[bonze]

When I add tracks to an existing album or change a filename of an album with my 7.7.3 LMS and issue a rescan, two new albums get added with the same name as the previously existing album. On album contains the new/changed tracks and the other album contains the unchanged tracks.

Full clear & rescan works OK on 7.8, which I thought was the recommended action if updating existing albums.

[Jeff Flowerday]

Full clear & rescan works OK on 7.8, which I thought was the recommended action if updating existing albums.

"Look for new and changed media files" should then be reworded to "Look for new and deleted media files, not including artwork".