Audio / MP3 questions

[LouisXIV]

While using WMS I ran into the follwing questions:

When showing Music on my TV I can choose to show Albums, or Artists. Is it possible to combine these options into Music -> Artist -> Albums -> <tracklist / MP3s>? I have a lot of MP3's to choose from (approx. 25.000). Some artists I have 10 to 20 albums in MP3. I can choose Artist and then scroll down to an album title but I hope it can be easier ....
BTW All MP3's are saved on my HDD in the following structure <artist> \ <artist>-<year>-<album> \ <artist>-<album>-<tracknr>-<title>

When showing the music files on the TV a small pic is shown for these files where I saved a CD cover scan in the directory ... COOL !!! I usually have front, back and inlay pics added, how does WMS choose which file to show? Is it the first file it finds (alphabetically ordered)?

[Eugene]

While using WMS I ran into the follwing questions:

When showing Music on my TV I can choose to show Albums, or Artists. Is it possible to combine these options into Music -> Artist -> Albums -> <tracklist / MP3s>? I have a lot of MP3's to choose from (approx. 25.000). Some artists I have 10 to 20 albums in MP3. I can choose Artist and then scroll down to an album title but I hope it can be easier ....
BTW All MP3's are saved on my HDD in the following structure <artist> \ <artist>-<year>-<album> \ <artist>-<album>-<tracknr>-<title>

You can use a folder "Watch folders"

When showing the music files on the TV a small pic is shown for these files where I saved a CD cover scan in the directory ... COOL !!! I usually have front, back and inlay pics added, how does WMS choose which file to show? Is it the first file it finds (alphabetically ordered)?

Cover from tags
Cover, album, albumart, folder [.jpg, .jpeg, gif, .bmp, .png] files
First image file.

[LouisXIV]

Thanks, i'll give it a try ....

[LouisXIV]

Found the Watch folder option, but I am using the Artist & Song index more at the moment.

I did find another question though: It seems WMS stores the complete filename as the track/song title. When playing on the TV, the filename is show where title should be and when looking in the program itself it also shows the filename in the column "title". Tracknr and genre are not shown most of the time.

I did rescan the audio files, deleted & regenerated the Artist & Song index today because I changed and added music files.

As you see, I'm still testing on audio, did not test video yet ....

[Eugene]

Found the Watch folder option, but I am using the Artist & Song index more at the moment.
I did find another question though: It seems WMS stores the complete filename as the track/song title. When playing on the TV, the filename is show where title should be and when looking in the program itself it also shows the filename in the column "title".

Perhaps this mode is enabled

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Tracknr and genre are not shown most of the time.

If they are present in the MP3-tags, please send a sample on support@wildmediaserver.com

[LouisXIV]

Perhaps this mode is enabled

Yep, was enabled. Disabled it, now the track title shows as it should be, however the sorting order is alphabetically and not based on tracknr: if I choose an Artist, all tracks of all albums are shown alphabetically. If I use Artist list, Tracks are shown per album (as I would like it) but also alphabetically and not as they were on the CD. Before this was not a problem because the filename was used which gave me the correct sorting order ...

If they are present in the MP3-tags, please send a sample on support@wildmediaserver.com

I will do so, but first I am checking ALL of my files to make sure I send you the right stuff. I just discoverd part of my collection does not have its tags right (mostly genre, tracknr. tags are OK), so first I will check and repair it, then re-index WMS and then send you the input.

[Eugene]

Perhaps this mode is enabled

Yep, was enabled. Disabled it, now the track title shows as it should be, however the sorting order is alphabetically and not based on tracknr: if I choose an Artist, all tracks of all albums are shown alphabetically. If I use Artist list, Tracks are shown per album (as I would like it) but also alphabetically and not as they were on the CD. Before this was not a problem because the filename was used which gave me the correct sorting order ...

You can make changes to the script "Artist Index", for taking the track number from file names (<artist>-<album>-<tracknr>-<title>)

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procedure ProcessItem(aItem: TWmsScriptMediaItem);
var
  i: Integer;
  sCollectionPath, sFileName: string; 
begin
  sCollectionPath := 'Artist Index\' + Copy(GetProperty(aItem, mpiAuthor), 1, 1) + '\' + 
                  GetProperty(aItem, mpiAuthor) + '\' + GetProperty(aItem, mpiAlbum);                  
  if VarToStr(aItem.Properties[mpiTrack]) = '' then begin
    sFileName := ExtractFileName(aItem.Properties[mpiFilePath]);
    i := EndPos(sFileName, ' - ');    
    if i > 0 then begin           
      i := EndPos(Copy(sFileName, 1, i - 1), ' - ');
      if i > 0 then              
        aItem.Properties[mpiTrack] := Copy(sFileName, i + 3, 2)      
    end
  end;    
  WmsDatabaseAddLink(mfAudioPlaylistsItemID, sCollectionPath, aItem);     
end;

[LouisXIV]

Can it also be done based on MP3 tag? About 95% of my collection is build like <artist>-<album>-<tracknr>-<title>, but the other 5% are albums with various artists on them (soundtracks, compilation CD's) which are build like <album>-<tracknr>-<artist>-<title> (needed for alphabetically correctly order the files).

I sent you emails with MP3 files and screendumps, hoping this can help.

Once again, thanks for all your support !

[Eugene]

Can it also be done based on MP3 tag? About 95% of my collection is build like <artist>-<album>-<tracknr>-<title>, but the other 5% are albums with various artists on them (soundtracks, compilation CD's) which are build like <album>-<tracknr>-<artist>-<title> (needed for alphabetically correctly order the files).

I sent you emails with MP3 files and screendumps, hoping this can help.

Thanks. Error reading track number fixed, fix will be in the next version.

[LouisXIV]

Can it also be done based on MP3 tag? About 95% of my collection is build like <artist>-<album>-<tracknr>-<title>, but the other 5% are albums with various artists on them (soundtracks, compilation CD's) which are build like <album>-<tracknr>-<artist>-<title> (needed for alphabetically correctly order the files).

I sent you emails with MP3 files and screendumps, hoping this can help.

Thanks. Error reading track number fixed, fix will be in the next version.

Great, I will wait patiently for it

In the meantime I will try to do some testing on Video files, already tried some quick views. WMS supports Divx viewing .... great, Nero MediaHome couldn't I will make a new topic for remarks and/or questions.