[SteveVi]

New user here and all I can say is WOW!! I'm running Dharma beta 2 and set-up has generally gone quite well. I have an smb share that contains approx 800 CD ripped as Monkey's Audio (.ape) files except for 2 odd-ball albums that are ripped as mp3s.

After adding the share, selecting "Scan item to Library", and turning on "Library mode" and waiting for the scan to complete, none of the .ape albums are showing up. The library view only contains the 2 mp3 albums.

If I turm off "Libray mode" I can see all of the albums and can play the .ape file just fine.

Any thoughts on what I might be doing wrong?

Thanks -- Steve

[jmarshall]

The debug log during a scan may tell you.

Are the tags read when you're in filemode or during playback, or do you just have the filenames?

[SteveVi]

The debug log during a scan may tell you.

Are the tags read when you're in filemode or during playback, or do you just have the filenames?

Thanks for the quick reply.

No tags in filemode--just the file name.

I cleaned the music library, enabled debugging and restarted xbmc. The log (http://pastebin.com/sgevbL2K) doesn't seem to indicate there were scanning problems. Here's an excerpt:

Code:

07:25:11 T:8664 M:948752384   DEBUG: MUSIC_INFO::CMusicInfoScanner::DoScan Scanning dir 'smb://media-server/music/Zox/Line in the Sand/' as not in the database
07:25:11 T:8664 M:948740096   DEBUG: DllLibApeTag: Using libapetag library
07:25:12 T:8664 M:949616640   DEBUG: Previous line repeats 10 times.
07:25:12 T:8664 M:949616640   DEBUG: MUSIC_INFO::CMusicInfoScanner::DoScan Scanning dir 'smb://media-server/music/Zox/Take Me Home/' as not in the database
07:25:12 T:8664 M:949616640   DEBUG: DllLibApeTag: Using libapetag library
07:25:15 T:8664 M:955584512   DEBUG: Previous line repeats 14 times.
07:25:15 T:8664 M:955584512   DEBUG: MUSIC_INFO::CMusicInfoScanner::DoScan Scanning dir 'smb://media-server/music/Zox/The Wait/' as not in the database
07:25:15 T:8664 M:956338176   DEBUG: DllLibApeTag: Using libapetag library
07:25:16 T:8664 M:955953152   DEBUG: Previous line repeats 12 times.
07:25:16 T:8664 M:955953152   DEBUG: MUSIC_INFO::CMusicInfoScanner::DoScan Scanning dir 'smb://media-server/music/ZZ Top/' as not in the database
07:25:17 T:8664 M:954638336   DEBUG: MUSIC_INFO::CMusicInfoScanner::DoScan Scanning dir 'smb://media-server/music/ZZ Top/Afterburner/' as not in the database
07:25:17 T:8664 M:954638336   DEBUG: DllLibApeTag: Using libapetag library
07:25:18 T:8664 M:953987072   DEBUG: Previous line repeats 9 times.
07:25:18 T:8664 M:953987072   DEBUG: MUSIC_INFO::CMusicInfoScanner::DoScan Scanning dir 'smb://media-server/music/ZZ Top/Best of ZZ Top/' as not in the database
07:25:18 T:8664 M:953987072   DEBUG: DllLibApeTag: Using libapetag library
07:25:19 T:8664 M:953913344   DEBUG: Previous line repeats 9 times.
07:25:19 T:8664 M:953913344   DEBUG: MUSIC_INFO::CMusicInfoScanner::DoScan Scanning dir 'smb://media-server/music/ZZ Top/Eliminator/' as not in the database
07:25:19 T:8664 M:953913344   DEBUG: DllLibApeTag: Using libapetag library
07:25:20 T:8664 M:953946112   DEBUG: Previous line repeats 10 times.
07:25:20 T:8664 M:953946112   DEBUG: MUSIC_INFO::CMusicInfoScanner::Process - Finished scan
07:25:20 T:8664 M:953946112  NOTICE: My Music: Scanning for music info using worker thread, operation took 09:07
07:25:20 T:8664 M:953942016    INFO: Music scan was stopped or finished ... restoring FindRemoteThumbs
07:25:20 T:8664 M:953868288   DEBUG: Thread 8664 terminating
07:25:20 T:5968 M:953896960   DEBUG: ------ Window Deinit (DialogMusicScan.xml) ------

Steve

[spiff]

if you don't have tags in file mode, we have problems reading your tags. that's why they are not added to the library.

[SteveVi]

It's odd that xbmc isn't reading them as they're read just fine by MediaPortal and WMP. Any thoughts on a fix?

[jmarshall]

We'd need to see the files.

[SteveVi]

My entire music library has been tagged with J River Media Center over the past 8 years or so using JRMC versions 10 through 15.

As you may know, J River's CTO, Matt Ashland is the guy behind the APE file format so it's pretty unlikey the files are tagged improperly.

Having said that, I'd be happy to get some files to you. Is there somewhere I can upload them?

Thanks -- Steve

[jmarshall]

There's various free sites you can upload to, alternatively, PM me and I'll send you some info for an ftp server.

Cheers,
Jonathan

[gabbott]

This is probably the same issue that is affecting wavpack files (they also use ape tags)

http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/8893

(I had a thread on here in the forum about it but unfortunately it was lost some time ago so the link in the trac isn't correct)

wavpack and ape both use APEv2 tags by default


Edit:
I don't have time to test right now, but OP might want to try the advancedsetting option to prefer ape tags and see what happens

http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Adv...library.3E

[jmarshall]

I presume the files work just fine on a local disk, correct? The problem is libapetag isn't being wrapped, as it's compiled statically on win32, and I presume on other platforms as well.

I've opened a ticket here for trac(k)ing the issue:

http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/10372

@gabbott - do you think that sums up the case for you as well?

Cheers,
Jonathan

[SteveVi]

Yes, file mode and library mode work just fine if the files are on a local disk.

Thanks for looking into this.

Steve

[gabbott]

@gabbott - do you think that sums up the case for you as well?

Cheers,
Jonathan

This could very well be what I'm seeing. When I get home from work today I'll do some testing using local files and verify.

[jmarshall]

Fix is done in SVN and backported to Dharma

Cheers,
Jonathan

[SteveVi]

That's great news. Any thoughts on when the next Dharma release might be? Barring that, is there a way to get the fix from SVN without compiling the source?

Thanks again -- Steve

[jmarshall]

Very soon with any luck, and no, you need to rebuild to get the fix.