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Re: Asset UPnP v3 Discussions
Re: Asset v3 05 June release, Album By Release is still not consistent.
Some directories are sorted with newest releases first, some are sorted with newest releases last.Comment
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Re: Asset UPnP v3 Discussions
This remains an issue for me with both Kinksy Desktop and Songbook 3.01. With the June 5 update and rebuilt database, "Unknown Conductor" appears in the library and playlist under the individual track titles where the artist tag normally resides.Comment
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Re: Asset UPnP v3 Discussions
Mind trying the following, maybe this helps: go into Asset configuration and limit playlist-count to 30 (I hope, I remember this names' entry properly offhand, you'll know, what I mean when you see it...)
Plugplayer has this behaviour, that when browsing Asset's "Playlist" feature, it starts to sort albums and tracks (newest, most played etc.) alphabetically, when there's more than 30 items present. So the default setting of 50 or 100 makes them sorted alphabetically when browsing, 30 sorts them by "age": latest on top, counting down to the oldest.
I could imagine, that with this new Album by release feature, something similar happens - so limit to 30 and see, what happens.... Just a thought, might help, might not help, just an idea...Comment
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Re: Asset UPnP v3 Discussions
Spoon
just finished rebuilding the database with the new Asset version and tested it against Plugplayer, Songbook and Kinsky Desktop 3.3.6 and then later against the latest nightly build of Kinsky Desktop: I do get the "unknown conductor" problem...
Before I get you and others into trouble, let me mention, that I added fields to the database configuration for additional tags, that I have (indexing seems to work). I formatted them the following way:
t_tagname,0,INTEGER for single value-fields
t_tagname,3,INTEGER for multiple value-fields
by the way: multiple value fields are still displayed value1; value2; value3
and:
the old way of doing it like this:
tagname,3,VARCHAR(150)
still works for indexing (and also produces the "unknown conductor" problem)
but
tagname,3,INTEGER (without the leading t_) messes up the database, no browsing is possible.
My personal added fields are configured like this:
t_work,0,INTEGER
t_movement,0,INTEGER
t_Label,0,INTEGER
t_soloist,0,INTEGER
t_SoloInstrument,3,INTEGER
t_arranger,3,INTEGER
t_Lyricist,3,INTEGER
t_OriginalArtist,3,INTEGER
t_composersort,3,INTEGER
t_composersortorder,3,INTEGER
Some other thing, that you might be interested in knowing:
The entry/tag
originalartist
formerly was spelled
original artist
before you moved to the end of May build.
With "original artist" and the reindexing (from scratch!!!) of the database after installing the end-of-May-build , this tag was not properly recognized: in the browsing tree, the values for "artist" were put out instead (somehow, the space in the tag was not recognized anymore). Once I converted the tag (omitting the space between words) into "originalartist", the problem was gone, and the extra tag was recognized and browsable.
This behaviour applied to both ways of adding entries to the database configuration: t_original artist AND original artist/VARCHAR
Mind giving us some insight on how you decided on the formatting of the tag-value-entries and what the different formatting options mean? This would be really helpful, since this might
a.) help to omit problematic configurations
b.) help advanced users to enhance the use of Asset
Thanks - as always - for being helpful and for making Asset the best uPnP server software present!Comment
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Re: Asset UPnP v3 Discussions
Just did another database-rebuild, now the "unknown conductor"-problem seems to be limited to Songbook alone. Will keep an eye on it and do some more testing...Comment
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Re: Asset UPnP v3 Discussions
One more question:
what's the "Playlists"-entry "Recent Albums"/"Recent Tracks" supposed to show - Albums/Tracks, that I have recently played? Neither with Kinsky Desktop, nor with Plugplayer or Songbook, I do get anything displayed, even after playing an album multiple times/adding it multiple times to the playback cue.
And, for testing purposes: what (and how much) should be displayed in // according to what rules are the following entries populated?
New Albums
New Tracks
Top Albums
Top Artists
Top Tracks
Least Played Albums
Least Played TracksComment
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Re: Asset UPnP v3 Discussions
Tried this with June release, after a complete database rebuild (stopped Asset service, deleted both "*.bin"- databases (%appdata%\dbpoweramp in the command prompt gets you to the right folder) and restarted the service) and I have no sorting problems whatsoever....
Please look into the tags of some of the files: what entry do they have in the "year"-tag? Are they somehow different, and does this difference somehow reflect their different positioning?Comment
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Re: Asset UPnP v3 Discussions
I am currently not at my computer at home, so I don't want to name wrong ones... But you can identify them by size - the ones you keep (they are configuration *.bin-files) are something between 1 and 3 kB, the two largest ones (in my case one is ~7000kB, the other one ~4000kB) are the ones to delete. If you restart Asset (be sure to disable the Asset Service in "Services" under "System Settings" - otherwise you cannot delete these two *.bin files) you have to wait a few seconds, then Asset will automatically start to rebuild the database. You don't have to press any buttons in the Asset-configuration-window such as "rescan" orr" scan for changes"....
If by mistake you delete the other bin-files: they are either rebuilt automatically upon Asset restart, or are built/changed when you configure Asset (Browsing tree, file-extension scanning options, options for transcoding etc.). If you are unsure: just deinstall and reinstall Asset, then all *bin-files are rebuilt using default settings....Comment
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Re: Asset UPnP v3 Discussions
Just need to confirm something else here. I'm running Windows 7 64-bit.
When Asset Running Mode is 'Local Account', the uMediaLibrary path is %appdata%\dBpoweramp\uMediaLibrary.
When Asset Running Mode is 'Service', the uMediaLibray path changes and appears to be C:\Windows\SysWOW64\config\systemprofile\AppData\R oaming\dBpoweramp\uMediaLibrary.
Can anyone confirm this to be correct?
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Re: Asset UPnP v3 Discussions
OK, just done some testing and I can confirm the above myself.
Also, having now rebuilt the uMediaLibrary databases for both Local Account and Service Running Modes, I can confirm that the Album By Release sort problem only occurs for Album Artists with only 2 albums. If the Album Artist has 1 album or 3 or more albums, the sort order is correct. I guess this is a minor development bug.
mvilleLast edited by mville; 06-07-2010, 12:40 PM.Comment
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Re: Asset UPnP v3 Discussions
Upgraded to the latest v3 beta for Windows Home Server. The sort issues I saw earlier are fixed, which is cool. I also really like the alphabet search folders under artist and album so it's easier to get to stuff.
Not sure if it's intentional or just a function of the client, but the PS3 shows the alphabet folders under artist/album and the Xbox 360 still has the original behavior where it lists everything.
Playlists don't seem to be recognized. I have four .m3u playlists and have the library folders set up to find them, but (at least on PS3) the Playlist folder comes up as "Unsupported Data." This didn't happen with v2... but then, none of the playlists actually worked once you got into them, either, so there's no big net change there.
The UI for forcing streaming on different file types (where you can choose to stream different files as different types) is a little cumbersome. It's hard to see what you have overridden because now it's not checkboxes but scrolling through and reading what is set to what. I think there's probably a larger opportunity to make a mistake, too, and misconfigure.Comment
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Re: Asset UPnP v3 Discussions
Since 3 days i use v3 premium. Very brilliant software. I have a Oppo BDP-83 SE and especially i use it for my in flac converted personal CD collection. It's a very great sound.
But i have a problem with my "m3u-playlists". How can i play my playlists?Comment
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