The albums are on the PC in a folder called music. The following example is in a sub-folder called FLAC.
This is the album that I mentioned earlier in the thread when Asset created 13 “albums” out of 1
This is the album that I mentioned earlier in the thread when Asset created 13 “albums” out of 1
Two things-
What is the album artist for the album shown (you can add that to the explorer window)?
What folder is asset pointing to for music (in the config settings for the audio library)?
Normally Album and AlbumArtist are the tags that determine “an album”.
Album artist is Adam Nitti. Asset is pointing to the library shown in my last folder. However things have changed somewhat. Asset completely locked up and I ended up deleting and downloading it again. Interesting results; some albums are perfect, some albums are playing in alphabetical order only, some albums are displaying with each track as a separate album. On 1 album track 1 is duplicated as track 2 and all other tracks play correctly but there are now 11 tracks on the album not 10. Some album artwork is incorrect but most are fine. Look at the photos - 3 different pieces
of artwork for the same piece of music! Time to lie down in a dark room…
I have some iTunes rips in my library and asset handled them fine. I’m assuming you’ve kept the same artist/album folder format that iTunes used. It sounds like you have some work ahead of you cleaning up meta data. As others have said, dbpoweramp is the way to go.
Room for two ?
I went trough M Picard soft, I wonder if there is some best setup guideline in order to avoid messing up with large libraries I have on my servers
K can’t really back up as my library is 40 TB
That’s a lot of ripped CDs! But still perfectly able to be backed-up.
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@Thruster04 I don’t see any question posted by you on this subject to the dBpoweramp Asset forum, do you intend to do this?
Yes I do. I’ve received lots of tips and advice here but Asset certainly is behaving strangely. Using UPnP in Windows 10 the only problem is that tracks are only played alphabetically. As Asset is currently installed/configured almost nothing works properly!
40 terabytes? Wow, what are you storing that on now? Are you sure it is 40 terabytes?
I think it is worth getting to grips with tagging and for that I like mp3tag. It’s fast and reliable. There are lots of tags that I ignore. I keep my recordings in folders one per artist subdivided into albums. For classical I treat composer as artist and when there are multiple composers I will identify these separated by commas.
Yes, 4 NAS WD drives 12TB each
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No, I am not running asset, just using the Naim app.
Just want to put some order in my files on my 4 NAS servers
I just noticed the confusion myself as @Tesilk is not the OP in the thread, @Thruster04 is so we have two different discussions going on.
Either way, for Asset (or any other UPnP server) to work properly good tags are essential and on Windows mp3tag is very good for examining and editing tags. Screenshot below is for an album on my NAS. Things to look out for; all files in the right hand side are selected so the pane on the left shows attributes common to all files and Album and Artist are consistent. Ones showing <keep> are different for each file and as they are title and track number that is to be expected. Track numbers are all filled in properly so tracks will play in the right order rather than alphabetical. If you have <keep> in Album, Artist or Album Artist on the left that is a problem as the UPnP server will see them as different albums or artists so won’t play in the way you would expect.
I think you may have a problem with the folder sctructure.
Instead of a folder name with the artists name and album, change the the folder name to Adam Nitti, in this folder create a folder named Evidence, place the tracks in this folder. By default, when rippimg a CD with DP an artist folder is created, within this folder an folder having the album name is created.
Naming setting by default in DP (Save in Dynamic Artist Folder)
I’ve been using DP to rip for 10 years streaming with Asset and MS without a problem. Never looked at a tag let alone modified one.
Also, don’t think the name of the music file should include the album title.
UPnP servers don’t care about file names or folder structures, all they care about is metadata. File names and folder structures make it easier to grasp for us humans
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Exactly. The User Guide for MinimServer, written by the developer, Simon Nash, gives a clear, if technical, description of how the server software goes about its business. I realise this is an Asset thread, but I think it’ may be worth reading just to get an understanding of how a UPnP server uses metadata.
Roger
Not in my book, Asset in the title is erroneous.
It should be titled something like UPnP Server Metadata
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Except that some servers including Minimserver allow you to choose between tag view and folder view, so they are clearly able to do either. Why anyone would actually want to use folder view is another matter, but the option is there.
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Hmm - I use folder view. I know where things are, and I find it hard to categorise music into groups or tags. Music is more fluid than categories allow for.