4.8 STILL not handling folders right

[donpearson]

Hi,

just upgraded to 4.7 (NOW 4.8!) and it still looks like it not right yet.
It dose not seem to be handling folders right at all
If you look at the image you can see that it is now showing ( Ministry Of Sound - ) before the cd name when before it was just the cd name.. it used to just not show ( Ministry Of Sound - )!!!!!

4.6

subsonic4.6.jpg

4.7


Now play spot the difference
Any ideas?

Thanks

[BKKKPewsey]

As far as the album artwork is concerned I think that you will find that all the albums affected are multiple cd albums.
With 4.6 If you put album art in the album root directory it would display - that trick doesn't work with 4.7....
Why the artist name is showing I have know idea My MoS albums still show up as year - album as before.
What have you tagged your album artist as? All my compilations have Album Artist set as "Various Artists"

[donpearson]

So for a start how can I fix the artwork?
Yes all my compilations are set as Various Artists.

Looks like I'm going to be going back to 4.6 and never upgrading again

[donpearson]

What change was made to now not show the folders the same anymore, it worked very well before 4.7

[donpearson]

Had to go back to 4.6, but I'd like to know if there is a fix for this???

[donpearson]

any ideas?

[pir8radio]

there is no fix because they changed how that info is generated in 4.7. 4.6 will go and look at file structure to lay everything out.. like (No Doubt/Tragic Kingdom/Just A Girl.mp3 = Artist, Album, Song) now 4.7 reads id3 tags and builds the artist, album, info.. At least that's how i understand it. so i guess technically in version 4.7 you could put all of your mp3 files in one folder and it should build all of the links and what not just like it does in folders, because its reading id3 tags..

Again i'm not 100% on what i just said above, if i'm wrong someone correct me please.

[hakko]

4.7 is still folder based, it just tries to read id3 tags/file names in advance (rather than when you're browsing your collection) to have them ready. It doesn't keep the internal representation of the file system 100% synced with the actual file system though.

Folders and files are sorted like this: http://subsonic.svn.sourceforge.net/vie ... iew=markup

No code has been commited for four weeks, that's the only public information on whether an official fix is coming...

[hakko]

The reason it was changed, by the way, is that there was a bug in 4.6 that made the sorting unpredictable, which in turn made it crash really bad intermittently for people running Java 7.

[pir8radio]

ahhh...... well thanks for the info....

[pbsonic]

Also running into this as well...what an oddball change in 4.7...would be great if there was some option to retain the legacy type of sorting.

It seems fairly important for an application that's designed to organize things to add to the sorting functionality (like the new tagging discovery/sorting options), not just randomly changing course and one day having a new version sort everything differently, with no way to go back. This happened in one of the betas, with the whole collection defaulting to a sorting based on album year.!? Not sure who sorts their entire physical CD collection at home in shelves according to album release date, so i'm not sure where that came from... I see a lot of people going after third party apps thinking they're broken, and some of that confusion is slowly filtering to the forums here..

Pete

[aadam12]

FAIL! My entrie music collection is in folders sorted by Genre/Artist/Album/Numbered-Tracks. Some folders contain both albums and single tracks. I run a Ubuntu server 12.04. On Subsonic 4.6 and prior releases, everything would sort exactly the way my folder structure is on the server. With 4.7 it does not. I saw there is a check box to "sort albums by year" but this does NOT solve the problem. Am I am forced to rollback to Subsonic v4.6 or is there a solution to this problem? I thought this would be fixed once 4.7 was out of beta.

[aadam12]

FYI, I rolled back to v4.6 and everything sorts correctly.

[daneren2005]

FYI, I rolled back to v4.6 and everything sorts correctly.

Instead of changing how everything works in the API's, he added a new set of API's to access music the new way, and left the API to access music the old way. What this means is that in the mobile clients you can still access your files by the folder structure.

[aadam12]

[What this means is that in the mobile clients you can still access your files by the folder structure.

-- HOW???

Let's say I have a folder called Rock. Inside that folder I have Beatles, Kinks, Kiss, Rolling Stones. v4.6 will show me the folders in THAT order.
v4.7 will show me Beatles, Kinks, Rolling Stones, Kiss. Why does v4.7 randomly start over alphabetically? I could swear all of my ID3 tags are correct. Is there somethig I need to do??? Am I missing a setting somewhere in v4.7???

BTW Sindre has done an awesome job with this software. I understand that most people just download or rip CDs and their filenames and ID3tags are a mess. v4.7 may work better for them but my collection is already well organized so why can't I see it that way when I access it on my Android or through a browser?

I'll have to stick with v4.6 until this is resolved.