[announcement] MusicCabinet 0.7.22 released

[hakko]

Release notes: viewtopic.php?f=4&t=9777&p=52975#p52975

This thread is for feedback on the release.

[dsnhdiv]

Hello,

Thank you for all of your work on this. The new release looks great so far!

I have one question about this:
"MusicCabinet now keeps track of music files that were ignored during scanning due to bad tagging, and their file names are displayed on the Media Folders settings page. This only applies for newly added files (so to activate it for an existing install, remove your media folders, scan, re-add them, scan again)"

When I remove the media folder and scan again should everything disappear? If it does not is there a way that I can make it do this if it must?

Just curious because I would like to make sure I get a clean scan.

Thanks.
Marc

[hakko]

Hello,

When I remove the media folder and scan again should everything disappear? If it does not is there a way that I can make it do this if it must?

Just curious because I would like to make sure I get a clean scan.

Yes, the artist list in the left frame should go all empty (maybe even display a warning). With one exception (due to a bug): if you use an upload folder that's not defined as a media folder, then the files from that directory would stay around. To force delete them, you'd have to add the upload folder as a media folder, scan, remove it, scan again.

To clean the database, you could also use the pgAdmin III or the psql tool, connect to your musiccabinet database and execute the command "truncate library.directory cascade". Restart your server and all files that were previously indexed should now be gone.

[bobdigi]

First of all, MusicCabinet is awesome, I've been using it for several months and it's pretty awesome. The only problem I'm having is that the starred tracks status isn't persistent. I had several tracks starred in MC and the favorite tracks in last.fm were synched up correctly when I first installed 0.7.22 but upon subsequent rescans the information is lost in MusicCabinet. I have 420 total tracks starred/favorited but when I go into MusicCabinet to view them only 10 - 100 appear. Is there a way to give the local MusicCabinet db precedence or persistence across library scans so all the tracks will display correctly in MusicCabinet? Starring a track in MusicCabinet works fine and anything starred in the program immediately shows up as a favorited track in last.fm.

Thanks for all of your work!

[wikke]

Hakko,
It's a fantastic addition to Musiccabinet. However, is it possible it still is buggy?

I'm not able to sync my Last.fm loved tracks to Musiccabinet.
I did a full scan earlier and I had 0 starred tracks (but at least 1000 loved ones on last.fm)

So I deleted & recreated my DB (using just 1 track which I'm sure is a loved track), and sure enough, it didn't sync up the starred status.

regards
wikke

[hakko]

It is definitely possible that it is buggy. I wrote some test cases for it and then I used it for my own library and it seemed to work the way I expected it so I released it. Please post as detailed explanations as possible of what's going wrong (best thing would be if you're familiar with SQL and can check tables library.starredtrack, music.lovedtrack and music.lovedtrack_import joined against music.track and music.artist) and see if you can find a pattern. I'm super busy at work right now but I'll have a look as soon as time permits.

[hakko]

You can also post your last.fm usernames here (or send them to me in a PM) and then I'll be able to reproduce the import of loved tracks and see if it works as expected or not.

[wikke]

Thanks for your replies Hakko.
I can happily report I found the problem, and MusicCabinet's wasn't at fault it seems.

I think the postgresql installation was misbehaving (possibly, while updating 32bit got installed over 64bit or something like that).

I'm enjoying the synced tracks now
Just one suggestion: I wish we could add all the loved tracks known via a button as well.
"Add now, enqueue now" etc only add the current tracks in view.

Cheers!

[pw22]

Loving the new sync starred / loved tracks feature - thank you! One request in relation to it... I have a very large collection which often has more than one copy of my favourite tracks (e.g. the original artist album, maybe also on a few compilations or best of albums or singles or whatever). If I've loved a track in last.fm, all the matching songs become starred. I can imagine for some people this is useful, but for me it means that when I just go to play starred tracks, it's full of duplicates (and triplicates, quadruplicates, and in some cases much, much worse!). Would there be any way to have it only star the first matched track it finds?

Thanks!

[hakko]

Maybe it would make sense to only add the earliest released song as starred (to avoid compilation albums, live versions, greatest hits etc).

[vollbr0t]

I think the syncronisation of loved tracks between last.fm and musiccabinet is great! At first everything worked fine with the new update. All my loved tracks got synced. But all of a sudden musiccabinet lost all my loved tracks. When i star a new track now in musiccabinet it is synced with last.fm, but my old (before) loved / starred tracks are no longer sync.

[wikke]

vollbr0t, I have the same issue.
But sometimes on the next database update they will appear again (partly, not all my tracks are synced)

As hakko said earlier in reply to my post, he's quite busy right now but will try to look into it later.
Maybe you can help more if you know something about SQL queries?

[dsync89]

For somewhat unknown reason my Top Artist and Recommendation tab are always empty with the message 'No artists found! Please update the search index here.' I had already perform a Full Media Library Scan. I wonder what is wrong.

[hakko]

Top artists, starred and recommended are tied to your last.fm account. Does the user that you log in with have that enabled? Is scrobbling working?

If it is, please scan your library and post the musiccabinet.log file here so that I can look for errors encountered during scanning.

[cakgok]

Hey,

I just upgraded from an earlier version and now i see Artist Radio, Top Tracks and Related Artist tabs on my mobile devices and they reaaly bother me. Is there a way i can remove those? I think i was at 0.7.8 before and they didn't exist.

Thanks for the great effort by the way:)