UnitServe SSD help needed

Posted by: antmast on 03 July 2012

Hello guys and galls,

I luv this new Naim Unitserve and it seems pretty straight forward functionally, especially when using the IPAD NAIM app. Recently when I downloaded a high res audio album from a french music site  www.qobuz.com  I get one folder that contains the flac files and the jpg coverart as you'd expect. However, when the Unitserve reads the music share it produces two or three seperate albums in the list with the flacs split between them and I must piece them all togather in a playlist. I have used a tag editor and I do not see anything unusual with the flac tags except maybe the use of french accents in the tags and album title. Any ideas why this is going on. It only happens with www.qobuz.com.

Posted on: 04 July 2012 by Phil Harris

What are you using as your UPnP server?

 

Can you try putting the tracks on a USB stick and playing them straight from that via the USB input on the Qute?

 

It sounds like the tracks are tagged with different album names (or at least your UPnP server thinks that they are...)

 

Cheers

 

Phil

Posted on: 04 July 2012 by antmast

Very interesting suggestion. I shall try this today and let you know. Happy fourth!

Posted on: 04 July 2012 by fixedwheel
Originally Posted by antmast:

Happy fourth!

Happy Thanksgiving to you too! 

 

John

Posted on: 04 July 2012 by Phil Harris
Originally Posted by antmast:

Very interesting suggestion. I shall try this today and let you know. Happy fourth!

 

Thanks - of course the 4th of July is Independence Day and I'm a Brit in Britland so not a celebration for me.

 

Phil

Posted on: 05 July 2012 by antmast

Well Happy Holiday!  I tried loading the album with the usb port on the rear of my ssd and I got the same behavior. The tag album is lengthy,"London Symphony Orchestra, Valery Gergiev, Jeanne-Michèle Charbonnet, Angela Denoke, Dame Felicity Palmer, Matthias Goerne : Strauss: Elektra" but when I use Mp3Tag they look identical. It is a double album set. It shows in the list as 4 albums. 2 with single tracks, 1 without a cover. 

 

 

Posted on: 05 July 2012 by antmast

Since www.qoboz.com is based in France, and it is the only site I experience this problem with, could this  have something to do with the UnitServe and the french accents being used in the tags? Is it the database? Should I reallocate it via the desktop client?

Posted on: 05 July 2012 by rjstaines

So using MP3TAG, you see exactly the same Album and Artist all the way though all the tracks?  There may be a very slight change, accent, no-accent... capital, no-capital... space, no-space ...that sort of thing?

 

I find MP3TAG is excellent at sorting mis-named albums.  Try re-tagging the album and artist fields by copying the same data to each track - that, in theory, should fix the problem.

 

However, I have seen probs where there have been caps and no-caps and re-tagging doesn't change the US internal database - it retains the original key data and appears not to be case sensitive.   Suck it and see, as they say in France.

Posted on: 05 July 2012 by antmast

It works!!! I renamed the album and the artist, I did see discrepancies with the artists using MP3TAG. One thing, do I have to rebuild the database before the new idtags take? After I made my changes all the coverart in the list went blank, so I rebuilt. Is this necessary?

Posted on: 06 July 2012 by rjstaines

Yes.

Posted on: 06 July 2012 by Phil Harris

Just rescan the share, you don't have to rebuild the server database (which can only be done from Desktop Client)...

 

Cheers

 

Phil

Posted on: 06 July 2012 by antmast

I have some high res wav files with the same problem, the tag editor I am using Stamp ID3 is not helping. Is there a better one?

Posted on: 06 July 2012 by Focus
I am experiencing the same problem with ripped dvd-a. Tracks are scrambled when dragged into the unitiserve. Is there a way to edit the data before moving them over
Posted on: 06 July 2012 by garyi

Yes. You should really have gleened that from this thread

Posted on: 07 July 2012 by Focus
Yes i had gleaned that but I can't see that my problem was answered which is why I asked the question!
I am new to the computer audio stuff so a bit more explanation wouldn't go amiss
Posted on: 07 July 2012 by Lumos

MP3TAG will allow you to do fairly sophisticated name editing as well as batch edits, it will certainly help you. An area I occasionally get multiple albums is when the artists change from track to track, MP3TAG or careful renaming whilst ripping normally sorts me out.

 

Ian