OK BKKK has finally got all his media scanned in after upgrading 4.6 to 4.7b3 (approx 6 hrs which for 110k tracks is on par with an initial scan of (clean install) on 4.6 - Good Job)
Still testing obviously but my initial observations are :-
- It would seem the all the show-stopping bugs are gone (eg 5 min lockup on top rated)
- My album count has gone up by 400 albums but my artist count has gone down by 6000
- It would seem that it is not reading the <Artist> tag but only the <Album Artist> tag
This is obviously not good when it comes to compilations as all the albums get listed with artist=Various Artists
That may partly explain the artist total drop - Playlists are still a major problem
On trying to load some of my 4.6 playlists the following happens
- The first couple I tried SS did not display any message after hitting the OK button
No playlist shown either -However the log showed a couple of files which couldn't be found due wrong names
(e.g. the files had been moved/renamed since creating the playlist) - So I tried a more recent (& correct) playlist and SS gave a message "Playlist imported successfully"
However still no playlist shown and checking the log I get
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"WARN PlaylistService File in playlist 'oldies.m3u' not found: D:\shares\music\F\Family\Family - Roger Chapman - Bandstand (1972)\01 - Burlesque - Family Feat. Roger Chapman.mp3"
etc for all the entries - This is the correct path and is using the same path structure as in settings/media folders - Same results on all the other playlists which have all correct playlist/path entries
- So I attempted to create a new playlist
Hit Create New playlist in left frame - nothing happens
So I Added songs to now playing list - selected all
Save as Playlist -Play Queue -still nothing?
Selected songs - add to playlist? - nope
- By turning off the sort albums by year all my directories now list as per 4.6 (ascending year sort)
So my initial impressions are great job - just got this playlist problem to deal with
(Note I had similar issues with playlists with my brief test with 4.7b2 on server 2003 - but no apparent problems with a
clean install on Vista)
and sorting out reading the artist tags as I now have about 500 albums which cannot be indexed correctly
EDIT: It would appear that the non-showing of playlists was due to chrome not refreshing the left frame
Sorry
However something odd is still going on as the oldies m3u is showing all the entries so not sure what the log was saying
but another playlist comes up as saying playlist 59 songs but underneath says playlist is empty
More testing required - will report back so Sindre ignore comments about the playlist problems for the moment