How to reset your Melco MinimServer installation to default settings

[Mr_Withers]

As the title I guess.

All is well until you start messing!

I inadvertanly deleted a load of content from the server and advanced tab on minimwatch, as a result my control point (Kazoo) was only show albums, tracks, playlists and folder view!

How do I put it back to default please?

After a bit of reading, I have managed to get artist and albumartist to appear and everything appears to be working correctly but I do not know whether any fields in those tabs are missing important info!

The only things in the advanced tab are

showextras = true
startup scan = true

In the server tabs the only things showing are

aliastags: album_artists:-albumartist
indextags: Album_artists,artist,albumartist
itemtags: album_artists_sort,albumartist_sort
mergefolderalbums: false

The contentdir and display name are also filled in.

The above maybe ok, it may not be, issue is I don't know!

One thing I have noticed in Kazoo is if looking at artist view I go to Arcade Fire for example it shows me this which I like



but I go to Bruce Springsteen it show me this, which I do not like



I have to go in another level to show all the albums, they are all there but I cannot figure out why it's different to Arcade Fire.

Looking across my library (2300 albums give or take) 70% are like Arcade Fire, 30% like Bruce.

Is this related to the tab settings or something else?

Thanks!!!

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[simoncn]

It seems that you have modified the default MimimServer settings, probably based on recommendations from the author of SongKong for Melco. If you want to reset MinimServer to the default settings, I can tell you how to do this but at present I am not sure whether this would help you or whether it would take you further away from where you really want to be. Please provide more information on what you want to achieve.

The Bruce Springsteen display that you do not like is caused by having different AlbumArtist values for your Bruce Springsteen albums. If you click on 'albumartist' under Bruce Springsteen, you will see what these different values are. When you have done this, please post back saying whether or not you want the AlbumArtist values to be different and I will provide further advice on how to proceed.

[Mr_Withers]

(01-07-2017 06:09)simoncn Wrote:  Please provide more information on what you want to achieve.

Good question!

Ultimately, I guess I would like everything to display in logical manner, in the same way the Arcade Fire image displayed.

The one thing I really dislike is scattered albums, I guess this is caused where you may have a 10 track album by one artist, but 1 or 2 tracks on that album may feature another artist, and it's those tracks that disappear and show as an album on their own.

Looking at Bruce Springsteen, if I go to Artist View there are 23 albums, everything shows, in the album artist there are 9 albums. Looking at some of these albums most of them do not feature other artists as it were, they are simply Bruce Springsteen from start to finish, but if look at the tags via dbPoweramp these 9 albums show Bruce as Album Artist

In this instance do I simply have no album artist on those particular, or is there a tag to apply to get it to ignore it or something?

Thanks

[Mr_Withers]

Just did a little experiment - the 9 albums which were displaying as album artist I quickly went into them all and removed the album artist tag, rescanned minimwatch and the Bruce Springsteen folder view changed to match that of the Arcade Fire folder which is good.

I just need to know what to do on those albums where there is a featured artist on a few tracks I guess.

Other than that I think I'm good

[simoncn]

There are two possible scenarios and it does make a difference which one you want MinimServer to handle. These are:

1) Use the Melco ripper to rip a CD, then rescan in MinimServer

2) Use the Melco ripper to rip a CD, then use SongKong to fix the tags, then rescan in MinimServer

Ideally these would use the same MinimServer configuration but at present there might be differences.

[Mr_Withers]

(02-07-2017 05:27)simoncn Wrote:  There are two possible scenarios and it does make a difference which one you want MinimServer to handle. These are:

1) Use the Melco ripper to rip a CD, then rescan in MinimServer

2) Use the Melco ripper to rip a CD, then use SongKong to fix the tags, then rescan in MinimServer

Ideally these would use the same MinimServer configuration but at present there might be differences.

The only reason I bought Song Kong for Melco was to fill in the blanks on the missing artwork I had - I was aware the program could rewrite tags and unless something is missing artwork I don't really want/need to use it.

Option 1 would always be the preferred thing for me do, unless of the course the tags need fixing as I found with some CD's.

I'm slowly going through my library fixing any missing artwork, but I always presumed once I'd finished that I'd never need Song Kong again!