Failing to pick up some tracks

[Anonymous]

I’ve got 25,469 songs loaded, but there are a couple of albums I’ve got that won’t be picked up for some reason. Is there any way to figure out why, exactly, it hates these tracks? I like them a lot myself. 🙂

[fizze]

Yes, just bump up the loglevel and do a rescan 😉
Chances are bad i18n characaters in the filenames, wrong permissions, corrupt files/metadata….

[Anonymous]

@fizze wrote:

Yes, just bump up the loglevel and do a rescan 😉
Chances are bad i18n characaters in the filenames, wrong permissions, corrupt files/metadata….

I see no complaints in the log. In fact, it says it’s in the db. I don’t know how to read the DB directly, but strings shows it as at least being in there.

I can’t search for them in iTunes, but it does appear that quite a few songs make it without their ID3 tags, so it appears the problem was not what I thought it was.

Example track that’s not showing showing as it should:

2008-06-19 12:49:43: Found /data/mp3/music/dustin/NOFX/Wolves In Wolves Clothing

/02 USA-holes.mp3

2008-06-19 12:49:43: FS Mod time: 1146107350

2008-06-19 12:49:43: Could not find id 30005824

2008-06-19 12:49:43: DB Mod time: 0

2008-06-19 12:49:43: Found music file: 02 USA-holes.mp3

2008-06-19 12:49:43: Got id3 tag successfully

2008-06-19 12:49:43: Found ID3 header

2008-06-19 12:49:43: Header length: 316

2008-06-19 12:49:43: Reading in new block at 326

2008-06-19 12:49:43: valid header at 0

2008-06-19 12:49:43:  MPEG Version: 1

2008-06-19 12:49:43:  Layer: 3

2008-06-19 12:49:43:  Sample Rate: 44100

2008-06-19 12:49:43:  Bit Rate: 64

2008-06-19 12:49:43: Found Xing header

2008-06-19 12:49:43: Xing Flags: 00

2008-06-19 12:49:43:  Song Length: 413055

2008-06-19 12:49:43:  Date Added: 1146107350

[fizze]

Ok.
Worst case is there are no id3 tags / metadata present whatsoever.

So then firefly would store it as unknown artist, or no artist, and no album, and with the filename as “song” name.

[Anonymous]

@fizze wrote:

Ok.
So then firefly would store it as unknown artist, or no artist, and no album, and with the filename as “song” name.

iTunes must be doing something funny with it, then:

*** Tag information for 02 USA-holes.mp3

=== COM (Comments): (iTunNORM)[eng]:  00002802 00002769 0000B91B 00008E1D 0000BE9C 00018014 00008C1E 000089D1 0000393E 00011E39

=== COM (Comments): (iTunSMPB)[eng]:  00000000 00000210 00000AD4 00000000005A201C 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000

=== COM (Comments): (iTunes_CDDB_IDs)[eng]: 19+17283D8C35B5D2CCF86D2C3D5FE5079C+7181940

*** mp3 info

MPEG1/layer III

Bitrate: 64KBps

Frequency: 44KHz

Perhaps it wants to look it up dynamically or something? I’ll see if I can play around with iTunes and get it to do something sensible.

[EVILRipper]

I remember when debugging an application for firefly, it crashed on non-tagged MP3’s aswell.
I did a search in the db using sqlite client:

SELECT * FROM songs WHERE artist = '' OR title = '';

This query gave all songs without tags.

So I don’t think firefly stores ‘Unknown Artist’ or ‘Unknown Title’ in the db.

[fizze]

Well, there’s an option to send blank or NULL artists/albums as “unknown artist” or “uknown album”.

You could also try and create a smart playlist for album = ” and then see what pops up in the smart.html, or use FirePlay, etc…

I’m still having troubles to figure out those songs, and especially finding them on the fs afterwards. 😉
A way to go could be to play one of those songs, then fetch the ID from the firefly admin pages, and select the path and filename from the DB manually.

But that’s kind of cumbersome, me thinks 😀

[Jeffly]

I’ve read through this thread and the one here: http://forums.fireflymediaserver.org/viewtopic.php?p=19028 and I’m having a similar, equally confounding problem.

Firefly reports that I have 4881 songs, but iTunes ‘sees’ only 2727. iTunes is running on a mac, so I ran the java client found here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/fireflyclient

That client lists and plays all 4881 songs on the mac.

So it’s definitely iTunes not liking these songs. But why? Can someone help me sort this out? I’ve tried tweaking the tags on some of the ‘missing’ files, but I can’t find a pattern.

I’m using Firefly from the Ubuntu Gutsy repositories (reported from the web admin as version svn-1586)
iTunes is 7.6.2 running on os 10.4.11

Thanks in advance for any help!

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