So yesterday, whilst I was dinking with the media server I found the missing rips! Because I’d not known which disks were missing (I could have fished out the CD Boxes and worked out which disk I’d got up to then worked backwards to find them, I suppose, but that’s a bit much like effort) I’d not had anything specific to look for.
It turns out that I’d created (at least) two separate FLAC folders, one which is where I thought it should be, and another which is in the ‘dump files for the server’ here folder (which to tie in with the Mac is called ‘DropBox’). I think that dates back to a time when I had so many problems with read/write access on the server from MacOS that I just created one folder that I could fight with rather than many.
Despite being half asleep I worked my way through putting cover art in the ones that were missing it, I then spent an enjoyable chunk of time merging the folders making sure that there were no duplicates. I now have a ‘clean rips’ folder and a ‘digital downloads’ folder that actually make sense. Of course, the old ‘MP3’ folder’s a flipping disaster area and still contains a lot of digital downloads from the pre-FLAC era.
However, the repaired Squeezebox has been providing good service, and I looked forward today to tapping ‘New Music’ and getting lots of shiny new music (well, old music) to listen to. But for reasons that are completely inexplicable to me, Logitech Media Server’s still stuck showing some of the stuff from Christmas as ‘New Music’, and nothing since then. Given the disaster that happened last time I asked it to refresh its database I’m slightly reluctant to force an update – and given that if I ever successfully get a 4TB drive I’ll be moving the whole lot onto a shiny media server (Plex + Logitech Media Server) – I’m prepared to wait. But it is weird, they show up complete with artwork if I navigate to the directory, through the LMS interface, but it seems to just not want to scan any of the new music.
Ah well.
Hopefully, some of these foibles might disappear when I’ve got a somewhat more powerful server. I realised today that there seems to be an actual performance hit on the server when its streaming music to the squeezebox…which is surprising. Since it can run on a RPi. But hey, the media server’s not exactly high spec.
