Installation Issue

[xefil]

1. You have to actively choose which genres to use, from Settings -> MusicCabinet (bottom of the page)

Done, it works

2. I'd guess your compilation albums lack the "Album Artist" tag. (TPE2 in MP3 id3 v2). MusicCabinet groups albums based on album artist/artist/album tag, not directories, so it'll interpret a compilation album lacking album artist as many different albums by different artists. If you use the album artist tag and set it to "Various Artists" or something similar, the album will be considered just one album by that artist. However, single songs will still be presented with their artist tag, scrobbled correctly, be searchable etc.

I've tested it on a compilation, you're right, TPE2 was not set. Now I've edited the compilation, made a rescan but the compilation is not shown anymore. The rescan (tried offline, normal and full) are very fast, maybe too fast to check again all the tags? Is it correct? or I'm missing something? How to enforce a rescan complete?

Simon

edit: now the file looks like this:

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# id3v2 -l Springtime\ Chillout\ Session\ -\ 01\ Ambray\ -\ Take\ Aim\ -\ Original\ Mix.mp3
id3v1 tag info for Springtime Chillout Session - 01 Ambray - Take Aim - Original Mix.mp3:
Title  : Take Aim - Original Mix         Artist: Ambray                       
Album  : Springtime Chillout Session     Year: 2012, Genre: Unknown (255)
Comment:                                 Track: 1
id3v2 tag info for Springtime Chillout Session - 01 Ambray - Take Aim - Original Mix.mp3:
TALB (Album/Movie/Show title): Springtime Chillout Session
TPE1 (Lead performer(s)/Soloist(s)): Ambray
TIT2 (Title/songname/content description): Take Aim - Original Mix
TRCK (Track number/Position in set): 01/20
TCON (Content type): Alternative (20)
TYER (Year): 2012
COMM (Comments): ()[eng]:
APIC (Attached picture): ()[, 3]: image/jpg, 33340 bytes
TPE2 (Band/orchestra/accompaniment): Various Artists


Last line was added by cli

[hakko]

After refreshing the left frame, doesn't it show you a "Various Artists" entry? Clicking it should show the compilation album.

The left frame never shows artists only found on compilation albums ("one hit wonders"), but you can find them via the search box.

Artists who have both albums of their own and appear on compilation albums will be shown in the left frame - clicking them will show first their own albums, then compilation albums they appear on.

[xefil]

After refreshing the left frame, doesn't it show you a "Various Artists" entry? Clicking it should show the compilation album.

The left frame never shows artists only found on compilation albums ("one hit wonders"), but you can find them via the search box.

Artists who have both albums of their own and appear on compilation albums will be shown in the left frame - clicking them will show first their own albums, then compilation albums they appear on.

Uhm, sorry, but it's not shown
Various artists on the left is there but clicking it, it's missing the compilation. Even if I search by "Ambray" or "Take Aim" in the search box, nothing. I suspect the id3v2 cli has made some problems. I try to edit on a Windows program. BTW is there no other way to rescan it forcing a database clean-up?

[hakko]

Could you check the musiccabinet.log file (location is given at the About view) and see if the mp3 file for some reason has been excluded by the scanner? It writes warnings if a file can't be read.

There's no way to force a full re-scan.. the scanner normally works. : /

[xefil]

Could you check the musiccabinet.log file (location is given at the About view) and see if the mp3 file for some reason has been excluded by the scanner? It writes warnings if a file can't be read.

There's no way to force a full re-scan.. the scanner normally works. : /

Issue found. Using id3v2 cli in linux to rename bulk of files like *.mp3 causes to fullfill the ID3tag with strange symbols!!! I've to edit it one by one or use a script like:

find -name '* *' | while read filename; do id3v2 --TPE2 "Various Artists" "$filename"; done

And so it works! A rescan has solved the problem!

Thank you for the support!

Simon

[hakko]

Couldn't you do find -exec instead?

Anyway good to hear that the scanner works as it should. I'm making mental notes of things that are confusing to new users. It's not top priority to fix but it's good to know what should be smoothed out.

[eksempel123]

Just a heads up to anyone with this strange error: run "sudo killall -v java"
At some point MusicCabinet died on me, so I thought I could do a reinstall. But the original process borked up the re-install, so this handy command kills all of the "left behind" processes by MusicCabinet.