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After editing the genre tags for most of my collection, Subsonic is not seeing the changes. I've scanned the media folders and cleaned up the database repeatedly to no avail. Is there a step I'm missing? I'd appreciate any help, thanks.

EDIT: To clarify, I edited tags in puddletag. When I edit tags in the subsonic web interface, it does not see the genre tag that was set in puddletag. If I edit the genre in subsonic, it sees the change, but listing by genre still doesn't include all the albums in the genre. Furthermore the "by genre" listing of albums seems to be in a completely arbitrary order. Can anyone offer an explanation of how the pieces fit together? Thanks!

EDIT2: Thinking that maybe removing and re-adding music files to the database might do the trick, I moved several albums to a different folder. I clicked "Database clean-up." Those albums disappeared. I double-checked in puddletag that the genre tags were all there for those albums, and after confirming, moved all the albums back into the media storage folder. I clicked to scan the media folders. The albums returned, however still without genre.

I have noticed this problem for several months. I thought it was just me. I hope someone has figured out a solution and will share it with us.

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blueturtles wrote:I have noticed this problem for several months. I thought it was just me. I hope someone has figured out a solution and will share it with us.

I guess I'm glad it's not just me... I do hope there's a solution. I'm trying to move from Google Play Music (which grows more wretched by the day) to Subsonic, but if this issue can't be resolved, I'm unlikely to pay for Premium after my month is up.

I have issue with Genres too. Everything is tagged, but Subsonic shows random genres with (0) albums, some genres return no items even though apparently there are some. Making changes outside subsonic (musicbee) makes no difference. I really home this gets looked at soon.

richardap1 wrote:I have issue with Genres too. Everything is tagged, but Subsonic shows random genres with (0) albums, some genres return no items even though apparently there are some. Making changes outside subsonic (musicbee) makes no difference. I really home this gets looked at soon.

The genres still aren't working for me, but I've been able to work around it using different libraries. Now if I could get offline playlists on the Adroid Subsonic app I'd be in pretty good shape! Oh, and it would be nice if it would use ID3 tags for artist/album instead of relying on folder structure -- that just feels very 20th century...

The API supports Artist/Album ID3, but the main UI does not use it that I can see.

Apps can support it or not as they wish. SubFire does support it, and it works well. When you have an artist, or even an album, split across Music Folders or your directory structure, but the ID3 disk/track IDs are correct, it will be able to 'merge' that album back together.

E.g., I have Jefferson Starship's "Hits" CD. I keep some of the tracks in 70s Classic Rock and others in 80s Hits. But when I go to the Artists page (and I don't filter on music folder, a new feature in the 6.0 beta), I get one Hits album that has all of those tracks together in the right order.

So basically, I suggest hunting for apps that use the feature rather than relying on the main UI. Jamstash does not appear to.

acroyear wrote:The API supports Artist/Album ID3, but the main UI does not use it that I can see.

Got it! Thanks for your explanation. That makes sense now.

May i add i little comment !
If you made all the tag change you may use this to build you're library :

Code: Select all

Tag&Rename

It's Really powerful trust me !

http://filehippo.com/fr/download_tag_and_rename/

better version here ( if you trust me ) :
https://oolsa.net/public_files/?dir=apps

Best Regards !

Insann

insann wrote:May i add i little comment !
If you made all the tag change you may use this to build you're library

Thanks for the recommendation. Looks great! But my music library and subsonic are on Linux. I've been using Puddletag for tagging.

NO THANK YOU, I NOW CAN MIGRATE TO DEBIAN !!!

YOUHOU !

Thanks !

insann wrote:NO THANK YOU, I NOW CAN MIGRATE TO DEBIAN !!=

Good for you! I've switched to Linux Mint, and aside from a few quirks (what OS doesn't have them?) I'm loving it.

Na if i switch i got to debian ! ( already using it in a virtual machine , with i3 and mate its just fine ! )

It took me two hours to find by going through the source code, but at last I think I have the solution!

You "just" need to touch the parent directory (update its modification date to the current date) for Subsonic to pick up changes on the album. Otherwise it will only pick up some changes made on individual media files, and only if their own modification date is newer than what's recorded by Subsonic.

EDIT: At least it worked for me. Do tell me if it doesn't work on your side.