Asset UPnP R2025 beta.

[simes_pep]

Issue with latest Beta build, the periodic rescan is performing a ‘full’ scan function, and not a ‘detect changes level scan”.
The media library is available, but the device is continually performing a scan, as a ‘delete database & rebuild’ level scan takes about 12-18 hours.
This is on a RPi2 so using the ARM32 build.

[Arnold]

The description of this new option "Fill missing Artist tags - Affects files with Album Artist but no Artist set" is a little cryptic for me, because all my albums have also artist tags.

Ah, I now understand how this works.
Asset just performs a hardcopy of the AlbumArtist tag to the Artist tag. And it doesn't matter if the artist tag already has one or more entries, Asset just appends another entry.
And with this option switch off, Asset does not copy (and append) the AlbumArtist tag to the Artist tag.

[Arnold]

Added new option for this in today's build.

Hi Peter,

Thanks for your fast action on my request.

Just tested it and it works.

The description of this new option "Fill missing Artist tags - Affects files with Album Artist but no Artist set" is a little cryptic for me, because all my albums have also artist tags.
But your implementation is spot on to my request, so you make me happy :-)

After I disabled this option (which then for me gives the result as requested), I think Asset started to rebuild the database because It took several minutes for the endresult.

Thanks for you nice work.

[PeterP]

Request: is it possible for you to add an option for not adding the AlbumArtist tag to Artist tag when indexing the collection?

Added new option for this in today's build.

[PeterP]

Works okay for me.

The filename is Asset-R2024-08-26b-DSM7, but Asset identifies itself with Version: R2024-08-23 beta

Request: is it possible for you to add an option for not adding the AlbumArtist tag to Artist tag when indexing the collection?

Thanks for testing.

Looks like just wrong version number slipped in Linux packages, bug fixes are included.

Album Artist vs Artist change is on the todo list for future update.

[Arnold]

New beta + change log posted, various regressions have been fixed.

Works okay for me.

The filename is Asset-R2024-08-26b-DSM7, but Asset identifies itself with Version: R2024-08-23 beta

Request: is it possible for you to add an option for not adding the AlbumArtist tag to Artist tag when indexing the collection?

[PeterP]

New beta + change log posted, various regressions have been fixed.

[nytimez]

Thanks Peter.

I have installed the latest beta release and I can now save the MP3 Transcode value, however I don't think that any transcoding is occurring.

Not sure if this is unique to the beta release - I disabled the first instance and now have lost access to the Asset configuration page (Linux). The second instance is running though as I can access it from players.

[nytimez]

Thanks Peter.

I have installed the latest beta release and I can now save the MP3 Transcode value, however I don't think that any transcoding is occurring.

[PeterP]

I meant to post a new build yesterday, but the forum isn't showing new changes in my original post.

Latest downloads:
Mac | QNAP | Synology | Linux x86 32-bit | Linux x86 64-bit | Linux ARM 32-bit | Linux ARM 64-bit

Changes:

• Fixed MP3 streaming options not being applied.

Windows version is literally almost there, cleaning up details.

[Arnold]

Latest beta is working okay for me.
Layout options page is much better.
Speed with "rescan folders detecting changes" is impressive fast.

[psweetie]

Re: Asset UPnP R2024 beta

Thanks for the new features, especially the amended [SimpleArtist]. Will there not be a Windows beta, only the final version? Just curious (don't want to push anything if it delays the final version). We want to test [SimpleArtist] on a Cambridge streamer.

That has separated them again in the web UI, thanks Peter. And all saves look to be working. Magic

[nytimez]

I have updated to the latest beta release. Changes to MP3 transcoding still isn't being saved.

[PeterP]

New build released, above mentioned issues should be corrected.

[PeterP]

Thanks for the reports.
Multi-Asset-instance management regressions acknowledged, new build soon.