Maybe I’m missing something, but you said earlier in the thread that you had 40TB. But you have only 1300 albums. I have about 4000 albums, 99.5% stored as either FLAC or Apple Lossless, CD Quality or better, and they consume 1.7 TB. Are you including videos and other files?
The 40 TB was from a different member, here:
That was another poster in this same thread
My bad. I was just wondering Thruster04 has multiple copies of the same album.
That’s what I’m thinking, my suspicion is that there’s something under the Music folder being scanned and confusing things
How about getting Asset to only scan the files for one artist? That might help determine what’s going on.
It might help if Thruster04 expanded the directory column so we can see the entire path. How would Asset treat a single album if the tracks were stored in different directories?
It would see them as separate albums assuming the default settings were used.
If left to it’s own settings dbpoweramp will save as
Music\artist\album
Eg
Music\The Beatles\Abbey Road
Music\The Beatles\Let It Be
And, expanding
Music\The Beatles\Abbey Road\01 Come Together
Music\The Beatles\Abbey Road\02 Something
Asset will play Come Together followed by Something as long as the track number field contains the track number. The “number” in the file name has no effect if playing Album artist/album, which would be the standard choice for playback.
Would it? I haven’t tried, but I would expect it to group by album tag and ignore the directories. If you dump all tracks into one folder, it would sort out the artists and albums by the respective tags as well
This might be a stupid suggestion BUT how about installing the BubbleUPnP app and seeing how that handles things?
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How about the OP enquiring on the Illustrate (dBpoweramp/Asset) forum.
They’re the designer & developer of the software, Asset includes a data logging feature that will let the Asset people see what is actually going on, they can then tell us all what the problem is.
I suggested this a while back, but I don’t see anything yet … horse to water … but hey ho,
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I have discovered that I can point Asset at music files NOT associated with Itunes and all works fine - correct artwork and correct track sequencing. Point it at Itunes library and everything goes awry. I used Itunes on a PC years ago as a means of filling my Ipod for use on holidays and in the car but I remember having a problem and Itunes was badly corrupted. Via the internet I found a way to copy music from my Ipod into a new Itunes library on my PC and the library was completely restored. However the tracks all came back with unrecognisable names and I can see these names in Mp3tag. The “restore” created some 49 folders each containing a random number of tracks from a random number of albums and a random number of cover artworks. I am pretty sure that this was Apple trying to stop unauthorised copying of albums or at least make it inconvenient. Itunes is still able to decipher these files but the 2 UPnP servers that I have tried cannot.
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So is the iTunes folder a subfolder of your music folder? If it is and it is being indexed by Asset that is probably the cause of your issues as you’re probably not playing what you think you are. The solution will be to move your non-itunes files to another folder and have Asset index that or just get rid of the iTunes folder under your music folder
I haven’t used Itunes in years so I will move the library out of “Music”. I’m sure that is the answer.
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It did when I accidentally did it… it listed the track number as “1” for each track - it seems to use that tag to piece together an album when other fields match.
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dBpoweramp comes with a batch converter so (if you want / need to) you can convert all your music files back to Apple format to re-populate iTunes. I maintain iTunes to allow me to fill iPods for the cars, but I keep it well separated from my main music library.
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Yes do that and force a rescan in Asset and hopefully that will be you sorted
JRiver has a nice file moving/renaming feature. JRiver was able to reorganize my entire classical collection by selecting all the tracks (after testing on a few) and instructing it to move all my files into the following file structure:
G:\Music[Genre][Album Artist][Album]\
Of course, this assumes those fields are tagged properly. It also asks if it should delete now empty folders.
Do other programs have that?
Edit - just noted the posted version deletes the backslashes between the field names.
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Type two backslashes like this \\ which will then appear as one \
(Type three backslashes to see two)
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AssetUPnP has a folder view option also. But as you suggest why would you want to use it.