Announce: Album Catalog Creator for SlimServer

[SilverRS8]

Another small issue I found.
I have some very long tracks on some of my albums.
Tracks longer than 1 hour are not listed correctly by ACC (v1.5b).

Example:
Klaus Schulze - The Dome Event has 2 tracks.
ACC lists them as:
01 - The Dome Event (3:32) => but correct length is 1:03:32 !
02 - After Eleven (10:44) => correct

Nothing dramatic, but it would be nice to fix in a next release (if easy).

That would be a small fix. Added to my TODO list :-)

[andrek]

I saw on the website that a version 1.6 was available. So I downloaded and tried it:
- bug with tracks longer than 1 hour is fixed. Thanks;
- I see that the addition of Codec and Bitrate is implemented. A very interesting option (now I can quickly see which albums still to upgrade from mp3 to flac);

I do see some things that from my taste can be improved:
- the word "Flac" or "mp3" is immediately written after the year, so no spaces in between;
- the codec & bitrate information is not in italic, rest of that line is;
- I personally like brackets better than the pipe-character (my taste);
- I have some problems with collections of random songs that I treat as various artist (example top2000) where I have put all track-numbers as 0.
In 1.5b that worked well, now I see that it is not recognized as compilation, or only 1 song is listed.
I will try to add tracknumbers and see if that helps.
NOTE: I have also upgraded from 7.3.3 to 7.4.1 squeezecenter, that may also affect the various artist albums.

I think I can modify the output format (spaces, italics) myself to make it fit my taste.

BTW: Is v1.6 an official release or was it just there to test-drive ?

[SilverRS8]

I saw on the website that a version 1.6 was available. So I downloaded and tried it:
- bug with tracks longer than 1 hour is fixed. Thanks;
- I see that the addition of Codec and Bitrate is implemented. A very interesting option (now I can quickly see which albums still to upgrade from mp3 to flac);

I do see some things that from my taste can be improved:
- the word "Flac" or "mp3" is immediately written after the year, so no spaces in between;
- the codec & bitrate information is not in italic, rest of that line is;
- I personally like brackets better than the pipe-character (my taste);
- I have some problems with collections of random songs that I treat as various artist (example top2000) where I have put all track-numbers as 0.
In 1.5b that worked well, now I see that it is not recognized as compilation, or only 1 song is listed.
I will try to add tracknumbers and see if that helps.
NOTE: I have also upgraded from 7.3.3 to 7.4.1 squeezecenter, that may also affect the various artist albums.

I think I can modify the output format (spaces, italics) myself to make it fit my taste.

BTW: Is v1.6 an official release or was it just there to test-drive ?

Does the K in your name stand for Kuijer? In that case we've worked together ;-) Anyway....

1.6 is an official release.
Can you provide a screen shot of a header as the header ACC generates looks like the attached image where FLAC and MP3 is printed on the next line, not after the year. Also only the album name and year line is in italic.

Album tracks are sorted by tracknumber. When all tracknumber are set to 0 I an imagine this going wrong. Do you include the list entry # in the track title?

[andrek]

Does the K in your name stand for Kuijer? In that case we've worked together ;-) Anyway....

No, the 'K' stands for Klap

Can you provide a screen shot of a header as the header ACC generates looks like the attached image where FLAC and MP3 is printed on the next line, not after the year. Also only the album name and year line is in italic.

No screen shot at hand. But my output has codec and bitrate on the same line as album name and year.
What you show with a separate line looks very nice.
But I do not use 'genre', is that maybe where the newline is started ?

Album tracks are sorted by tracknumber. When all tracknumber are set to 0 I an imagine this going wrong. Do you include the list entry # in the track title?

I have also set the tracknr in the filename to 00. I will change this later this week and see if that fixes the issue.

[SilverRS8]

What internet browser do you use?
Can you PM me the acc.log file and the catalog file so I can try to track the problem?

[SilverRS8]

Please go to http://forums.slimdevices.com/showth...atalog+creator for an up to date thread and examples of current catalog layout