Song Fingerprinting and Tracking
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What exactly are the limitations of Strawberry's fingerprint and tracking capabilities?
For example, in iTunes or Apple Music, if you use an external tool to change the directory of a set of songs that are in any playlist, the app still locates and plays them thanks to the id tracking system of these Apple programs. But in Strawberry I have verified that this does not happen.
In Strawberry everything works fine if you just change the file name, but what about the other possibilities? -
@Miguel-Ruiz
You can't move songs from one collection directory to another, but you can move from any place within the same collection directory.
Also, make sure to check the "song fingerprinting and tracking" in the collection settings, and apply the setting before you add a collection directory, otherwise do a full re-scan to make sure fingerprints are calculated. -
@jonas What does Song Fingerprinting and Tracking do?
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@rlkeeney
When directories are scanned and metadata is read, it calculates a unique fingerprint for the song (a sort of hash) which is unique to a specific audio stream. This fingerprint is added to strawberry's database. If songs are renamed or moved on disk, the song is marked in the database as "unavailable", so if the song appears under a different path or filename, it can be matched to the database, this prevents losing things like songs in playlists (since collection songs in a playlist is linked to the entry in the collection database), playcounts and ratings for the song when it's stored in the database.
It takes a lot longer to scan the collection if this feature is on, so that's why it's not on by default. -
@jonas Thanks I like that.
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@jonas thanks for your answer. I am very interested in these aspects because I promote the use of Strawberry Player as a work tool for teachers of various techniques (https://biomusic.es) and I help these future users to better understand the possibilities of this magnificent tool.
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@jonas I understand that moving a song within the same music collection directory means renaming it and/or moving it between several possible subfolders of the main folder. It's right ?
