Minimserver 0.8.3 albums missing

[lmitche]

(31-12-2014 20:44)simoncn Wrote:  

(31-12-2014 18:52)lmitche Wrote:  The mergeFolderAlbums property is set to false. The problem manifests itself using both Lumim and the Linn Kazoo apps. Minimserver 0.8.2 does not exhibit this issue.

It is hard to say if this only happens on duplicates. By sampling, I would say yes, but I don't know for sure. Running 0.8.2 shows an album count of 5138, and on 0.8.3 an album count of 4419.

I haven't had any other reports of this problem and I don't (yet) know what could cause it.

Which platform are you using to run MinimServer and what are your contentDir settings? There was a bug in 0.8.3 that could affect which contentDir folders are considered valid (see this post).

Have you installed the latest update (update 54)?

Have you looked in the MinimServer 0.8.3 log to see if there are any error messages?

Have you tried setting startupScan to "full" and doing a Rescan from the minim icon?

Is the "n items" count lower on 0.8.3 or is it the same as 0.8.2?

Can you identify a specific album that is missing with 0.8.3? This would be helpful for further analysis of the problem.

Hi Simon,

Having finally found the time to analyze the change in behavior from minimserver 0.8.2 to 0.8.3, there is an improvement with the 0.8.3 57 update. Thanks for this. The null characters show as question marks, but at least the files are loaded into the library. My guess is the the problem is caused by the issue outlined in this thread.

https://forum.minimserver.com/showthread.php?tid=2104

On the windows 8.1 running minimserver 0.8.3 57 there are over 192 thousand lines of warning messages related to 0x00 errors in my minimserver.log file. Do you know of a Windows mp3tag editor program that can read and rewrite the tags without nulls in a batch process? Modifying each tag, one at a time looks rather onerous.

My guess is that jriver is placing nulls in the tags. They are in almost every tag.

Many thanks for your advice and consideration,

Larry