Issues with Oppo streaming

[Blue Dude]

I'm using Asset v3 beta to stream FLAC files (tagged with OGG tags), transcoded to LPCM, to an Oppo BDP-80. I have no problem getting the files to play, but the dynamic playlist is created in the wrong order. All the track 1's are listed first, then the track 2's, etc. This is true even with "Show as [disc][track][title]" selected. Static playlists are OK.

Play, FF/rew, pause, stop, and time seek are all fine. Gapless playback would be a real plus, but I know that's hard to implement in this environment.

Metadata doesn't seem to come across very well. I can view the track and title information in the listing, but when the now playing screen comes up, only the title at the top of the screen is shown. The metadata block with title(again), artist, album, and genre are empty. Also, the title often has spurious characters appended to the end. They don't appear on the playlist.

Thanks for any help! Getting the sort problem worked out would make Asset usable for multidisc playback. The other items are just (slightly) annoying.

[Spoon]

Re: Issues with Oppo streaming

Which dynamic playlist?

[Blue Dude]

Re: Issues with Oppo streaming

Well, I might have the terminology wrong. I mean the playlist that's generated when you browse to album, composer, etc. and begin playback. The tracks are not listed by disc, then track, but by track only.

For troubleshooting purposes, I have only a single folder specified for music files. So when I browse for album, composer, etc, only that single album is listed. Within that album, the tracks are out of order.

[Spoon]

Re: Issues with Oppo streaming

Have you tried Asset Control (in the beta section of this forum)? just to browse the Asset tree to see what it appears like in that? (you will not be able to control the Oppo with it though).

[Blue Dude]

Re: Issues with Oppo streaming

It lists the same way with Asset Control, i.e. in track order vs. disc order.

[Spoon]

Re: Issues with Oppo streaming

How are your discs labeled in the tags? For FLAC it should be:

1/3

or

2/2

[JoeBroesel]

Re: Issues with Oppo streaming

Hi,
this sounds like my Shostakovich problem:



Who would like to listen to the movementes of a symphony in the wrong order?

(Asset V3 Beta)

Greetings from Bavaria to whereever you are
from J.

[Blue Dude]

Re: Issues with Oppo streaming

How are your discs labeled in the tags? For FLAC it should be:

1/3

or

2/2

This is perhaps the problem. My files are using a separate tag for disc and track, not disc/track. In the numbering schemes I've come across, x/y implies track x of y, not disc x, track y. I don't recall ever seeing the latter case, to be honest. What are the chances that Asset could use the disc tag if present before breaking down the track tag?

[Spoon]

Re: Issues with Oppo streaming

Joe,

Is that KinskyDesktop?

[Spoon]

Re: Issues with Oppo streaming

The disc number should be separate from track, you are using FLAC? if so the internal tags should be:

TRACKNUMBER=9
TOTALTRACKS=10
DISCNUMBER=1
TOTALDISCS=2

[Blue Dude]

Re: Issues with Oppo streaming

I am confused then.

For disc 2, track 9, I am using:
DISCNUMBER=2
TRACKNUMBER=09

I don't use TOTALTRACKS or TOTALDISCS.

The other relevant tags I'm using are: ALBUM, ARTIST, GENRE, and TITLE. I also have a few other tags, such as replaygain info, but I don't plan to use them here.

[Spoon]

Re: Issues with Oppo streaming

They have to be used otherwise disc 1 would not be known as part of a multi disc set.

[Blue Dude]

Re: Issues with Oppo streaming

They have to be used otherwise disc 1 would not be known as part of a multi disc set.

I think it's safe to assume that if the DISCNUMBER tag is present, the track is part of a multi disc set. Even if that's not a good assumption, Asset would sort based on DISCNUMBER, even if that number is the same for each track in the entire folder, then by TRACKNUMBER. Asset would run out of tracks before iterating to the next DISCNUMBER, but so what? It would still be correct behavior. It would also permit sorting partial album sets and work with the tracks that are actually present instead of assuming that the entire album set is present. Why are TOTALTRACKS and TOTALDISCS required to sort files?

[Spoon]

Re: Issues with Oppo streaming

TotalTracks is not used, it makes no difference, but TotalDiscs is needed.

[Blue Dude]

Re: Issues with Oppo streaming

I'm just trying to come up with a way to avoid retagging all my multi disc collections - if I even have a program that will place that tag. Could not the sort algorithm make the assumption that the largest value of DISCNUMBER of a given album in the folder is the same as TOTALDISCS, in the absence of the TOTALDISCS tag? The files should sort the same way regardless of knowing TOTALDISCS from the outset.