PerfectTUNES discussion

[Spoon]

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Odd, will check this for next update.

[mville]

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When discnumber=1 and disctotal=1, PerfectTUNES AccurateRip reports my albums fine.

When discnumber>1 and/or disctotal>1, PerfectTUNES AccurateRip reports Albums Cannot Check: Incomplete Album.

Are there any other tags which are affecting PerfectTUNES AccurateRip (files are flac)?

[Spoon]

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On the popup info that dBpoweramp shows, does it show Sample count for FLAC and WMA lossless, they should match.

[LeapFrog]

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I have an interesting challenge - not sure if others have raised the issue previously.

I used dBpoweramp 14.4 to rip ~11 CDs in lossless format - used Multi-Encoder to encode to FLAC, ALAC and WMA Lossless from a single rip. The rip verified all tracks on all 11 CDs as being accurate.

Next, I installed PerfectTUNES and verified the rips for all three formats. Interesting, the FLAC and ALAC files were all reported as accurate by PerfectTUNES, however all of the WMA-LL files were reported as "Cannot Check: Track length different than CD Original".

I have repeated this experiment multiple times, always clearing the PerfectTUNES database file so that it "re-listens" to the tracks, and it always verifies the FLAC and ALAC files and reports "Cannot Check: Track Length Different..." on the WMA files.

The WMA encoder used is the latest version available for dBpoweramp (v9.2 of the WMA encoder)...

Any ideas??

[Spoon]

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>Is that because I did not clear the database cache?

No you have to let it fully scan as it removes missing items at the end.

[diedie2]

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*bump* :yawn:

[diedie2]

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Hi,

I found and installed this last week, and did a little test on the day itself with De-dup. It found a few duplicates, wich I had deleted and already cleaned recycle bin.

Today, I was a few hours not at home so I decided to scan a bigger folder (over 30k of files). When I came home it was still busy (wich I can understand), but I choose to pause and stop the scan, and check the files already scanned by now.
Now I see there are files in there wich I already deleted the first time. When I click on the foldericon of a song that's still there, it goes to it. But when I do that with a file that's already been deleted, it opens explorer and selects the folder "My Documents".
Is that because I did not clear the database cache? If yes, wouldn't it be better to delete files from cache when user clicks "delete" (and confirms to do it)?
I'm sure this program will be great, I used Duplicate Music Files Finder a few times, but its not easy in use when there are a lot of files to be checked.

2nd
I don't know how the progress is going for the tagger-app, as there is no beta to download and test, but I would like the mention MusicBrainz Picard. It's a great app that fingerprints your songs and gives a suggestion for the correct tags, fully independant from the current tags. The downside is that its very slow. Maybe you can get some positive inspiration from here.

[Spoon]

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Album Art yes, dedup by default sends tracks to the recycle bin (so can be undone)...

[mville]

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Does De-Dup and Album Art have an Undo option?

[dbfan]

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There is a previously fixed item which lists all the changes made.

[delta7]

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Hi,

I installed Perfect Tunes over the weekend for the first time. I have only currently tries the Album At program. I think that it shouldn't try to scan immediately or preferably ask for the location of your music library first. My Itunes library is currently on my D: drive with a few ripped but not copied albums in C: so the Album Art Check started automatically against the few ripped albums I had on C: instead of the main library on D:

Is there any way to know what tracks Album Art has found that it thinks needs updating? One issue I have is that the Album Art program has highlighted '4 Non Blondes - What's Up [Single]' has needing artwork and shows 8 Tracks as needing artwork but in Itunes there are only 4 tracks listed? How do I know what Album Art is trying to update? It would be good if we could say click on where it says '8 Tracks' and then a pop up window is shown of the path of all 8 files? I'm reluctant to click the Fix button because I don't know what will be updated!

[Bacchus]

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One other thing about that error dialog. When it happens, it doesn't remember/recognize that it already has fixed an album. So the next time it starts up it sees the need to fix them all over again, ignoring the now existing or now proper (per my setting) resolution.

[Bacchus]

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Just like the previous respondent, I am just now trying this out.

I have to say I get what he's complaining about. First I was surprised each utility was installed as separate apps, but so be it. However given that they are separate, why does the Album Art app have to fingerprint all the tracks? Why can't I just start that up and ONLY process the album art fix process? It's ridiculous for it to be a separate app and still have to fingerprint all the songs as if I'm about to run the Accurate Rip utility. When you have a LOT of albums that takes way too long if all you are trying to do is fix the album art.

Also, given that it's still in beta I tested it on a secondary machine, onto which I copied a subset of my library (only about 100 albums), deliberately choosing a mix of albums with and without album art. After (mostly) liking the results I tried it on my full library, by adding the location of my main folder. The problem here is it didn't see the missing album art in the albums that had been copied to the test folder and previously fixed there. The app saw them as already having been fixed and didn't pick up that those same missing/low res covers were still missing or low res in the new directory. It would b nice if it would offer to apply the same fix to the second location where that happens, or at least see that the second location should be part of the next fix.

Also, about half the time when I exit the app I get the following message in a dialog:

XDebugMemory: Memory leak detected, look at debug log window for details.
Select Cancel to break into program now.

With an ok or cancel. I've only ever chosen cancel, but if it will help the next time I see it I'll get the debug if ti will help. I checked the PerfectTunes folder and didn't see any generated log. I seem to always get the error if I try and "Fix" a single album from the main screen without first going to "Fix Albums".

Don't get me wrong, this is a great tool. I had a lot of missing or inconsistent and lower quality album art. A lot of that has now been corrected. And I can manually copy the fixes to the test albums up to the main dir. I do think it would be better if the Album Art app didn't process each song other than to catalog them. Save the full read/decode until I'm ready to use the Accurate Rip app. Frankly even if you do combine these into a single app (which I would prefer) I think the full processing and decoding should only happen when the users specifically requests it. Not automatically on startup the first time.

Thanks for listening.
Peter S

[Spoon]

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No setting, the slowest part is the fingerprinting of the audio tracks, each one has to be decoded.

[henryc71]

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Hello,

New to the forum but have been a dBpowerAmp user for many years.
PerfectTUNES has scanned my library of over 70K files and is now trying to fix the Artwork on 4549 Albums.
These are all MP3 files probably ripped by iTunes back in 2005.
It is taking Album Art fixer several days and it is only on the 'G' alphabet.
It also seems to not find a lot of album art.
Is there a setting that I am missing?

Regards,