Music Library Issues

[reggie14]

I finally got around to tagging all my music and importing it into Sage. But, I've ran into two problems.

First, Sage doesn't find all my music. It sometimes adds a couple songs in a subdirectory, then moves on. Otherwise it entirely skips some directories. I know this issue has come up before, and I thought some people had problems with certain files. I got rid of some of the odd non-mp3, non-jpeg files that were in the directory, then rescanned (I removed the import directory prior to this). However, the same files are still not showing up. I couldn't find this issue coming up recently in the forums. Anyone have any ideas?

Also, I've noticed that I can't find some songs with the search option. Its strange because those files show up correctly in the music listings. Has anyone else had a problem with the music search menu being buggy?

[Opus4]

You could enable debug logging to see what the log contains about any files that are not added during the import scan.

What type of music search are you doing? And, what are you searching for that is getting missed?

Are your songs tagged with the Album Artist info? Not all taggers handle that -- you can check the tag by loading Windows Media Player, right click on a song, choose Advanced Tag Editor, select the Artist Info tab. See what is in the Album Artist field.

- Andy

[reggie14]

I'm not really sure what to look for in the log. I'd attach the file, but the log is 3 megabytes. Instead, below are lines from the log of one file (I think the first file) that doesn't appear in the music library.

Sat 6/23 23:40:29.066 testFile=A Room of Our Own.mp3
Sat 6/23 23:40:29.110 ID3V1tag=TAG title=A Room of Our Own artist=Billy Joel album=Nylon Curtain year= comment= track=0 genre=Rock
Sat 6/23 23:40:29.110 Mpegaudiobitrate=160000 cbr approx theDur2=244432
Sat 6/23 23:40:29.111 File Format Parsed C:\Music\Billy Joel\Nylon Curtain\A Room of Our Own.mp3=MP3 0:04:04 159 kbps [#0 Audio[MP3 44100 Hz 2 channels 160 kbps idx=0]{Year=, Title=A Room of Our Own, Album=Nylon Curtain, Comment=, Duration=244432}]
Sat 6/23 23:40:29.114 Added:MediaFile[id=5905906 A[5905909,5905907,"Nylon Curtain",0@0215.15:21,4] host=andy-athlon2400 encodedBy= format=MP3 0:04:04 159 kbps [#0 Audio[MP3 44100 Hz 2 channels 160 kbps idx=0]{Year=, Title=A Room of Our Own, Album=Nylon Curtain, Comment=, Duration=244432}] C:\Music\Billy Joel\Nylon Curtain\A Room of Our Own.mp3, Seg0[Sat 2/15 15:21:18.896-Sat 2/15 15:25:23.328]]
Sat 6/23 23:40:29.115 New Library File MediaFile[id=5905906 A[5905909,5905907,"Nylon Curtain",0@0215.15:21,4] host=andy-athlon2400 encodedBy= format=MP3 0:04:04 159 kbps [#0 Audio[MP3 44100 Hz 2 channels 160 kbps idx=0]{Year=, Title=A Room of Our Own, Album=Nylon Curtain, Comment=, Duration=244432}] C:\Music\Billy Joel\Nylon Curtain\A Room of Our Own.mp3, Seg0[Sat 2/15 15:21:18.896-Sat 2/15 15:25:23.328]]

I guess one thing I just noticed was it appears all the music files with the line "ID3V1tag=TAG" do not show up in the library. For the files that do show up, I get something like "got ID3 header len=1113" in its place. I can't find a pattern in my files that would tell me when a file gets the line "ID3V1tag=TAG". Its not a matter of ID3v1 and ID3v2.

I don't think any of my music has album artist information. At least, none of the music files which I'm having problems with has it.

As for the searching problem, so far I've only noticed it with song names. For instance, I have with problem with American Pie. The song is correctly tagged, and it appears fine in the library, but I can't search for it. However, oddly enough, if I search with McLean as song title, American Pie shows up (even with the name American Pie).

In case you know how to read the log file, I'm attaching the relevant portion of the debug log (from when the song was added).

Sat 6/23 23:41:51.014 testFile=Don McLean-The Best of Don McLean-01-American Pie.mp3
Sat 6/23 23:41:51.052 got ID3 header len=1043
Sat 6/23 23:41:51.052 Mpegaudiobitrate=128000 cbr approx theDur2=512004
Sat 6/23 23:41:51.053 File Format Parsed C:\Music\To Be Classified\Don McLean-The Best of Don McLean-01-American Pie.mp3=MP3 0:08:32 128 kbps [#0 Audio[MP3 44100 Hz 2 channels 128 kbps idx=0]{TotalTracks=10, Title=American Pie, Album=The Best of Don McLean, Track=1, Genre=12, Artist=Don McLean, Duration=512004}]
Sat 6/23 23:41:51.058 Added:MediaFile[id=5911169 A[5911174,5911170,"The Best of Don McLean",0@0930.12:22,8] host=andy-athlon2400 encodedBy= format=MP3 0:08:32 128 kbps [#0 Audio[MP3 44100 Hz 2 channels 128 kbps idx=0]{TotalTracks=10, Title=American Pie, Album=The Best of Don McLean, Track=1, Genre=12, Artist=Don McLean, Duration=512004}] C:\Music\To Be Classified\Don McLean-The Best of Don McLean-01-American Pie.mp3, Seg0[Sat 9/30 12:22:57.996-Sat 9/30 12:31:30.000]]
Sat 6/23 23:41:51.060 New Library File MediaFile[id=5911169 A[5911174,5911170,"The Best of Don McLean",0@0930.12:22,8] host=andy-athlon2400 encodedBy= format=MP3 0:08:32 128 kbps [#0 Audio[MP3 44100 Hz 2 channels 128 kbps idx=0]{TotalTracks=10, Title=American Pie, Album=The Best of Don McLean, Track=1, Genre=12, Artist=Don McLean, Duration=512004}] C:\Music\To Be Classified\Don McLean-The Best of Don McLean-01-American Pie.mp3, Seg0[Sat 9/30 12:22:57.996-Sat 9/30 12:31:30.000]]

By the way, thanks for getting back to me so quickly.

Edit: It appears at least one other person has had the same problem with adding music to the library:
http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/show...ID3V1tag%3DTAG

[Opus4]

Unless someone else has run into something similar regarding tags, I would contact SageTV to see what they had to say about the log & tag info when those files are imported. They may ask to see the song file.

As for the search... what version of SageTV are you using, and are you using the unmodified default STV with all hidden features turned off? Unless there is a problem with the tags, I don't know how searching Song Titles could find that song title when you enter text that isn't part of the title, because it only searches the titles of songs. You can view the Song Detail screen for a more detailed listing of the song.

- Andy

[Opus4]

Originally Posted by reggie14

if I search with McLean as song title, American Pie shows up (even with the name American Pie).

Originally Posted by Opus4

Unless there is a problem with the tags, I don't know how searching Song Titles could find that song title when you enter text that isn't part of the title, because it only searches the titles of songs.

I take back that statement because I just figured out what was happening & fixed it. Thanks for pointing this out.

- Andy

[reggie14]

It sounds like there is a problem with handling some ID3v1 tags in Sage. Another person had the same problem about a year ago. I should probably submit a bug report.

In any case, I used Godfather to synchronize the ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags, so now the music is all in the library.

Of course, now I can't seem to playback music on my MVP, but I'm pretty sure thats a problem with v6.1.9 and the MVP software, not the tags.

As for the search issue, what do you mean you fixed it? I didn't think you were one of the developers, so I assume you don't mean you found the bug and fixed that.

[rickgillyon]

Originally Posted by reggie14

Of course, now I can't seem to playback music on my MVP, but I'm pretty sure thats a problem with v6.1.9 and the MVP software, not the tags.

Is it WMA? There's a known issue with WMA on 6.1.9, should be fixed in 6.2.

[reggie14]

No, my music is almost all mp3. The problem is only on the MVP. Playback is fine on everything else. I made a thread here: http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/showthread.php?t=25972

[Opus4]

Originally Posted by reggie14

As for the search issue, what do you mean you fixed it? I didn't think you were one of the developers, so I assume you don't mean you found the bug and fixed that.

Actually, yes I do mean that I found and fixed the problem. It will be included in some future release.

- Andy