No Album No Artist

[Labarum]

I 've been trying to tidy up my SqeezeLibrary after nearly 20 years of filling it with junk!

There was an item displaying as "No Album" which was full of corruptions. I have finally cleansed it apart from an OGG silence that is not in may FLAC folder but in a cache associated with the Material Skin (which I love).

What do I do with this?

/mnt/musiclibrary/slimserver/Cache/InstalledPlugins/Plugins/MaterialSkin/HTML/material/html/audio/silence.ogg



Do I delete it? How? Presumababy with Samba. Or is it an essential part of the skin? I seem to remember reading somewhere a silence is inserted.

[mherger]

> What do I do with this?

Don't scan your cache folder! Why would you do so?

[kidstypike]

I have the same file, same modified date. I don't have a "No Album" entry though.

I'd leave it, or ask Craig in the Material thread.

[cpd73]

/mnt/musiclibrary/slimserver/Cache/InstalledPlugins/Plugins/MaterialSkin/HTML/material/html/audio/silence.ogg

That is a 10 seconds of silence file. Its used to allow usage of media controls. For these to be active the web page (i.e. Material) needs to be playing a file, so Material plays this in a loop. (But only if you elect to use media controls)

But, why are you even indexing this folder as part of your music collection?

[RobbH]

Don't scan your cache folder! Why would you do so?

....
But, why are you even indexing this folder as part of your music collection?

How do you have your Media Folders set up in LMS Settings?

[cpd73]

How do you have your Media Folders set up in LMS Settings?

Well for one, LMS is not located within my music folder - which is the issue here, I think.

My LMS is in /usr/local/lms, and music is in /media/disk/Music - two completely separate folders.

[mherger]

>> /mnt/musiclibrary/slimserver/Cache/InstalledPlugins/Plugins/MaterialSkin/HTML/material/html/audio/silence.ogg
>
> That is a 10 seconds of silence file. Its used to allow usage of media
> controls.

Oh, I see. How do you start it? LMS would add any file to its libray
unless called using the tmp:// protocol handler.

BTW: LMS comes with a silence.mp3, too
(http://musicpi.local:9000/html/silence.mp3).

[Labarum]

I didn't think I was scanning anything other than my Music Library. The second ticked checkbox as seen above was how LMS/Material initially presented to me. I unchecked the lower box, cleared and scanned from scratch. The OGG file is still there.



But I see there is a child of the music library folder called slimserver - is that the issue?



And I noted a few days ago there is a cache on both the USB drive and on the card. And I noticed there was a move LMS Data button which, being a newbie I have not yet dare to play with.

I guess you are telling me all the LMS data should be on the card. I inherited a part set-up system and just took what was there.

So?

But otherwise everything is working splendidly.

[Labarum]

But here is what I see on my Chromebook via Samba.

I called the USB drive MusicLibrary but the FLAC collection in SqueezeLibrary/FLAC

So it seems I may be casting my library scan too wide.

[kidstypike]

Brian

I installed LMS for you on a vanilla pCP image, with no USB discs attached, so you must've told pCP to use the USB disc for the LMS cache.

You can keep the cache on the USB disc, (that's where mine is) but you should narrow the scanned music folder down to just "FLAC".