I have the Naim Uniti Core and use the Focal and Naim App. I’m quite familiar with its habits and it’s just done something out of the ordinary and I am wondering why.
New rips always go in the Newest Music category in the App. But I just finished ripping a new CD with four albums by the name of Chopin and Field Nocturnes, the artist is Bart van Oort on pianoforte. None of the four albums appear in Newest Music. I finally found them by searching in “Albums”. Why didn’t they show up in Newest Music” as is always the case?
Something else out of character for the Uniti Core is that it seems to be completely confused with a similar CD. I just ripped Chopin & Field Nocturnes which is the one above. Now I am trying to rip another similar CD collection with 6 CDs. It’s called Chopin His Contemporaries wand His Instrumentalists with the same Bart van Oort as Artist on Pianoforte, I can’t find the six rips anywhere. I just took CD1 for the 2nd time and ripped it to see what ir did. Instead of finding metadata for this CD, it has wrongly acquired the Cover Art and metadata of the earlier CD1!! They do not have the same music. They do not have the same title, yet it insists upon attaching the wrong metadata. I’ve done it four times now with the same result. What is the workaround for this problem?
Hi, a couple of things come to mind that this could be from my own experience.
Have you checked newest CD’s as well as Newest music? Should be in both but not always for some reason?
If the rip thinks it is something else it might over right a previous CD so not show up as a new rip, I have had this several times, certainly on remaster cd’s of the same name. If I am ripping a cd that is basically a copy (remaster etc) I slightly rename the original one already ripped.
Although the software is not perfect and a lot of people will say there is better machines/software available I really like my UnitiCore, generally easy to use and with well over 1000 discs ripped it’s only a few that I have had issues with. I recently got a 25th edition of Phantom of the Opera, ripped the second disc first (always do this now so they are in the right order in the library) perfect data listed, done the second disc and it named the disc as the first track and the album art was not the right one? A quick edit and all good.
Classical music cd’s do seem to cause more problems than most though, maybe because there can be lots of variations with similar names?
After a rip, in the Core app, using the ‘go to album’ link immediately after the rip I find useful. Allows a quick check & amendment of the meta data before any rip is lost in the filing system. I find that albums involving 2 artists often end up filed under the 2nd artist and artist 1 is ignored. This must be a bit of an issue with classical?
In this case it is not over writing the first CD. I think that is because I already edited the first CDs so the titles of the earlier rip do not match the later rip. Luckily, I usually get right to the editing of my metadata because I have a specific convention I follow, so I can always find my music. In this case the metadata assigned used the first and last names of the two composers featured. For the sake of consistency I always just use the last name of the composer for a title, followed by a colon. And then following the colon I type in the full title of the album. When the other album was ripped, it followed the original convention and used Chopin’s first name and Field’s first name so the old and the new didn’t match (luckily) so there was no over-writing.
Also, in this case, there are no previous recordings. None in either case.
I did just notice something else that is a little odd. When I rip something there is a little icon on the upper left next to a permanent icon. If I touch the secondary icon it will take me to the ripping process. In the case of this wrong metadata, it displayed three album covers at the bottom. Two belonged to the earlier album and one belonged to the correct album for this second rip. If it could find the correct album cover, why did it ignore it and use the other metadata???
All seems odd, I tend to let it rip then sort out any problems, as I mentioned some cd’s I have ripped that are maybe re-issues/ remastered seem to “disappear” I figured that it was just over written?
No, it is not remastered and I have no previous similar music. It is exactly as I indicated. Two albums with the same Composer (Chopin) and the same artist (Bart van Oort) but completely different titles.
New information:
The first title contains 4 CDs. The second title contains 6 CDs. CD5 and CD6 rip properly with the correct metadata. However, CD1, CD2, CD3 and CD4 refuse to take on the correct metadata, instead they take on the metadata associated with the earlier four CDs.
I would sure like to find a way to direct the second 4 CDs to the correct metadata.
It’s very tiresome. I don’t have any suggestions as to why this happening, although multi-CD sets can be problematical I find. A work-around might be to delete the 4-CD set, then rip the Nocturnes again and see if they load correctly. Then re-rip the first set.
