Had another example today. Of the twelve albums of Toho Bossa Nova, the twelfth one was sent to various artists on sync instead of the correct folder the other eleven were. All albums have the same Album Artist Entry. Further I went and investigated the various artists folder and found several more examples.
Is there a way to disable this behavior entirely? I want it to follow my sync options and nothing else.
Posts made by CharAznableLoNZ
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RE: Album Synced to Various Artists Folder Incorrectly.
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RE: Album Synced to Various Artists Folder Incorrectly.
@jonas
In this case it is a FiiO X1, however Strawberry treats it like a USB drive. I see the same behavior on the USB drive I plug into my truck as well. I believe both are formatted as FAT32 since that is what both players prefer.
For this album, I guess I fixed this album by doing some minor corrections to the tags. However I did not touch the Album Artist tags as that was already populated as the same for all tracks on the album. I still see it on other albums.
I mostly want to figure out what triggers this and if there is a way to force strawberry to ignore this behavior and just follow the sync Naming Options. -
Album Synced to Various Artists Folder Incorrectly.
I have multiple albums that have more than one artist listed. However I am using the Album Artist tag to be sure that albums with multiple artists do not get split up on sync. This works quite well.
I have a few albums that I've found when synced to a USB device will get put into the various artists instead of under the correct album artists folder. Under the collection tab they are grouped correctly.What causes this sync behavior, is there a way to disable this redirection to the Various Artists folder?
Below is the album, Mirror, that is exhibiting this behavior.
My sync Naming Options are;
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Manual File Formats Limits for Synced Devices
It would be nice if I can manually set device file format limits for synced devices that cannot be queried or are unknown. Two examples;
Example 1
My truck technically supports FLAC 96KHz at 24 bit, however if the bit rate is too high, it stutters.
If I convert this track to a 48Khz 24 bit FLAC file, it plays just fine. It would be nice if Strawberry could do this conversion upon syncing.
Example 2
My FiiO does not support WMA, I forget this and sync my library to it and as it plays it will display the unsupported format error and skip the track. It would be nice to be able to have Strawberry convert this to a different format upon syncing.TLDR, manual File Format options for devices that cannot report their limitations, like a USB stick.
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Not all Songs Copied to Device, No Error Displayed
Strawberry 1.0.4 on Fedora 35
256GB FAT32 Samsung USB Flash Drive-
Format flash drive to FAT32.
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Mount flash drive in Strawberry.
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Highlight all tracks on playlist with 9496 tracks.
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Copy to device.
Naming options;
%albumartist/%album/%title.%extension
Remove problematic characters from filenames
Restrict to characters allowed on FAT filesystems
Restrict characters to ASCII
Allow extended ASCII characters
Example Image showing the settings.
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Click OK
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Process completes, no error message is shown.
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Strawberry reports 9391 songs exist on flash drive.
Changing the copy settings has made no difference.
I went through all my music and translated all titles so that all characters are supported by FAT32 to be sure that wasn't the issue. -
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RE: MinGW-W64 1.0.2 Not Responding Constantly on W10 21H2
@jonas
Without the playlist the issue does not occur.
With the playlist it stops responding.
This also happens when loading the playlist on a clean start. -
MinGW-W64 1.0.2 Not Responding Constantly on W10 21H2
The setup:
Laptop with MinGW-W64 1.0.2 Strawberry installed.
Library on network drive, k:\music configured on Strawberry.
Playlist with 9.5k songs saved from previous use.
The issue:
Open Strawberry
Click anything, the first thing works.
Next click Strawberry goes unresponsive and uses 30% CPU
Must kill Strawberry in Task Manager.I run Strawberry on linux as well and have only had a couple crashes, on this W10 laptop it's unusable. On a W10 desktop with a local library, it's been stable. Both were installed using the same installer file.
I've tried the other build and found Strawberry started and quit before ever showing a window.
This setup is identical to how it was setup for Clementine and I never had an issue when Clementine was used. -
Add a Spek like Analyzer to Strawberry
Being able to analyze with a tool similar to spek would be extremely useful when comparing tracks. It allows a quick visual comparison of tracks.
Why not just use spek? The spek project has been dormant for a few years now, I fear it may never get updated to be available on newer distributions.