Tagging Inconsistencies 4.0.1 (2014-02-27)

[nynaevelan]

I'm going to join in on this conversation, but I don't know if it is the same situation that DasKraut is experiencing. And to tell you the truth I've given up on MM getting my album art right, but here is what I am seeing on random tracks, and I have yet to find a script or any of the native features of MM that will identify which tracks are being plagued by this problem. As you can see there is no art in the track but the debug helper script and the database itself, when I use SQLite Spy to view it, are saying that the track has a cover tagged in the file.
Although I hate having discrepancies in my db, this is one problem that I have given up ever having fixed but I hope you can find an answer for everyone else.



Nyn

[Bex]

That's album art with a "dead link". Have you tried trixi's album art tagger? It should have a function to remove these dead entries. MoDementia as well as Onkel_Enno have made similar scripts. Try to find them if not AAR does the trick.

[nynaevelan]

I've tried AAR a couple of times but I will look for MoDementia/Onkel_Enno's scripts to see if they will help.

Nyn

[DasKraut]

DasKraut,

I've updated the Debug-Helper Script so it displays AlbumArt Info.
It displays what MM has stored in its DB as well as what exists as an albumart object. This means that you can compare this two ways and see if there are any differences.
http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=25935

Let me know what you find.

I'm not sure how to load an image of the debug page but the final three lines of debug on one of the tracks show:

In DB: Image 1: (In Tag) Cover (front),
ArtObj: Image 1: : (In Tag) Cover (front),
ArtObj: Image 2: : (In Tag) Not Specified,

The debug page for the script shows:

Caption: Many Album Art >=2 (0)

Let me know what else you need (and how to load the full debug info - I have it saved to an image). Thanks.

[nynaevelan]

Hey Bex:

My problem tracks don't have the line below, is there a sql statement that I can run in SQL Viewer or maybe a custom node that would identify any tracks with the In DB statement not the ArtObj statement?

Code: Select all

ArtObj: Image 1: : (In Tag) Cover (front),

Nyn

[Bex]

The debug-helper script is just an info page which let you see hard to get data.

In DB: Image 1: (In Tag) Cover (front),
ArtObj: Image 1: : (In Tag) Cover (front),
ArtObj: Image 2: : (In Tag) Not Specified,

This means that MM's DataBase only knows about one image but it actually exists two images in the file itself. Did you really rescan this file?

[Bex]

Hey Bex:

My problem tracks don't have the line below, is there a sql statement that I can run in SQL Viewer or maybe a custom node that would identify any tracks with the In DB statement not the ArtObj statement?

Code: Select all

ArtObj: Image 1: : (In Tag) Cover (front),

Nyn

No, the DB-thing is SQL but the Object thing is VBScript. The only way to find these is to write a script which I'm sure MoDementia will do very soon. (It should be pretty easy.

[DasKraut]

The debug-helper script is just an info page which let you see hard to get data.

In DB: Image 1: (In Tag) Cover (front),
ArtObj: Image 1: : (In Tag) Cover (front),
ArtObj: Image 2: : (In Tag) Not Specified,

This means that MM's DataBase only knows about one image but it actually exists two images in the file itself. Did you really rescan this file?

I deleted the file from the library, closed MM, restarted MM, MM picked up the file from the monitored directory.

[nynaevelan]

Ok, thanks. Hopefully I am not taking up toooo much of his time for my ^&%$$ db. If I didn't love MM so much I would give it up and go back to the unorganized, poorly tagged, primitive Musicmatch program.

Nyn

[DasKraut]

The debug-helper script is just an info page which let you see hard to get data.

In DB: Image 1: (In Tag) Cover (front),
ArtObj: Image 1: : (In Tag) Cover (front),
ArtObj: Image 2: : (In Tag) Not Specified,

This means that MM's DataBase only knows about one image but it actually exists two images in the file itself. Did you really rescan this file?

I deleted the file from the library, closed MM, restarted MM, MM picked up the file from the monitored directory.

Oh, and I selected maintain library before closing and restarting MM.

[Bex]

The debug-helper script is just an info page which let you see hard to get data.

In DB: Image 1: (In Tag) Cover (front),
ArtObj: Image 1: : (In Tag) Cover (front),
ArtObj: Image 2: : (In Tag) Not Specified,

This means that MM's DataBase only knows about one image but it actually exists two images in the file itself. Did you really rescan this file?

I deleted the file from the library, closed MM, restarted MM, MM picked up the file from the monitored directory.

Do all the files in the album look the same?
And can you upload the file somewhere so I can look at it?

[DasKraut]

The debug-helper script is just an info page which let you see hard to get data.
This means that MM's DataBase only knows about one image but it actually exists two images in the file itself. Did you really rescan this file?

I deleted the file from the library, closed MM, restarted MM, MM picked up the file from the monitored directory.

Do all the files in the album look the same?

Some of the tracks in that album have both images and some have only the Cover (front) image. All of them display the "In DB" line the same way.

[Bex]

And all tracks have the same AlbumID?

If so select all tracks and go into the properties -> Album Art tab, check "Apply to all tracks" and hit OK. Does it work then?

[DasKraut]

And all tracks have the same AlbumID?

If so select all tracks and go into the properties -> Album Art tab, check "Apply to all tracks" and hit OK. Does it work then?

When I select the Album Art tab, I see all of the images. Deleting the unspecified ones and leaving the good one, ensuring that the "apply to all selected tracks" is checked, and then saying okay does clean up the files. But I have a fairly large library. I was hoping for a way to avoid going through every single track.

[Bex]

Yes I understand that. But first we need to understand why a rescan doesn't work.

Do all the tracks have the same AlbumID?