HELP needed: HDX - Renaming Artists and n-Serve Sorting

Posted by: Klout10 on 02 October 2012

Hi all,

 

From the beginning I couldn't stand the fact that the HDX sorts artists or groups including the prefix "The". I'd love an ignore prefixes when sorting on artist option! After a long time, I've decided to rename all the artists on the HDX as follows: old situation: "The Rolling Stones", new situation: "Rolling Stones, The". I used the DTC for this operation.

 

After renaming, everything looked fine via DTC and the web brouwser interface. However, upon using my iPad2 with n-Serve I've noticed that "Rolling Stones, The" is not appearing under the "R" (which was obviously my intention). But still under the old location ("T").

 

I wonder if someone has encountered the same issue? Switching off and back on the unit did not help??

 

Regards,

Michel

Posted on: 02 October 2012 by Maxi Me
Did you update the metadata as well as the folder names?
Posted on: 02 October 2012 by Klout10

No, only renaming the artists using the DTC, I'm not aware of other data that can be changed...

 

regards,

michel

Posted on: 02 October 2012 by Klout10

Sorry guys, I was a bit too quick: switching off and back on the iPad did the job...

 

Regards,

Michel

Posted on: 04 October 2012 by des hill

I’ve been ripping cd’s to the Unitiserve now, for several months (700 and counting).  I have the same moan, and have got around it by renaming the titles on the discs using the iPad (keyboard is essential).  Additionally you may have found that artists and composers are listed christian name then surname, totally contrary to any other indexing system, I look for Mozart, Respighi, Offenbach, or Dylan, on the shelves, not Wolfgang, Ottorino, whatshisname, or Bob.

 

I use the edit function on n-serve to rename the album in the format     dylan,bob … blood on the tracks          or          mozart … don giovanni          or        who ... tommy        etc. etc.   The edit function can be used to correct the artists and performers names (not sure what the difference is), and to add additional genres, I have added Oratorio, Indian music, Traditional, and a whole host of others.  Can't edit composers names though .......... why on earth not ? 

 

So far so good – a bit easier to find recordings now.  What then happened was that the occasional disc won’t play unless I undid the rename.  Quel pain.  Only on a dozen or so discs in 700, so far, still a pain, and no obvious reason why.

 

hope that helps

D