2012-06-13, 23:35
Firstly, thanks to all the developers - I'm a new user, I upgraded from a hardware streamer to a PC and XMBC to play my movies and I'm really loving the extra facilities.
I've been experimenting with the Music section and I'm having some problems with the library:
I have around 1500 albums on an external drive connected via USB to my HTPC. The main folder is "Music", within which are two folders "Flac Music" and "MP3 Music". Within each folder there is a subfolder per artist and in each artist folder are subfolders for each album.
ie:
For my flac albums the path is: E:\Music\Flac Music\*Artist*\*Album*\*songs*.mp3
and for mp3 E:\Music\MP3 Music\*Artist*\*Album*\*songs*.mp3
After I pointed XMBC to the source E:\Music and updated the library (using the 'Universal' add-on) I noticed some duplicates in the Artist view - mostly things like a thumbnail for "The Beatles" and one for "Beatles" - which I traced to the 'Album Artist' tags of those particular albums.
I re-tagged all the offending albums (using the excellent mp3Tag program) so they all now have an identical 'Album Artist', cleaned the library, updated it, but the offending duplicates were still there.
So, I removed the source, re-added it, let XMBC rebuild the library but I still have the duplicates.
I'm pretty methodical when it comes to my music and I'm confident the tagging is all correct now.
I can't think of anything else I can do. Is there a file somewhere I can manually edit? Is there a file I can delete and let XMBC rebuild it again? Am I confusing XMBC by having the same artists in both the 'Flac Music' and 'MP3 Music' folders?
It's not a big deal but I'm one of those anal types who likes everything neat and tidy. Any help would be much appreciated, thanks.
I've been experimenting with the Music section and I'm having some problems with the library:
I have around 1500 albums on an external drive connected via USB to my HTPC. The main folder is "Music", within which are two folders "Flac Music" and "MP3 Music". Within each folder there is a subfolder per artist and in each artist folder are subfolders for each album.
ie:
For my flac albums the path is: E:\Music\Flac Music\*Artist*\*Album*\*songs*.mp3
and for mp3 E:\Music\MP3 Music\*Artist*\*Album*\*songs*.mp3
After I pointed XMBC to the source E:\Music and updated the library (using the 'Universal' add-on) I noticed some duplicates in the Artist view - mostly things like a thumbnail for "The Beatles" and one for "Beatles" - which I traced to the 'Album Artist' tags of those particular albums.
I re-tagged all the offending albums (using the excellent mp3Tag program) so they all now have an identical 'Album Artist', cleaned the library, updated it, but the offending duplicates were still there.
So, I removed the source, re-added it, let XMBC rebuild the library but I still have the duplicates.
I'm pretty methodical when it comes to my music and I'm confident the tagging is all correct now.
I can't think of anything else I can do. Is there a file somewhere I can manually edit? Is there a file I can delete and let XMBC rebuild it again? Am I confusing XMBC by having the same artists in both the 'Flac Music' and 'MP3 Music' folders?
It's not a big deal but I'm one of those anal types who likes everything neat and tidy. Any help would be much appreciated, thanks.