Ghosts in the machine

Posted by: John Treble on 03 November 2014

I have a NDX and a Unitiqute streaming from an AssetNAS.

The AssetNAS search tree is set up with Genre as the first node. It splits into 6 branches: Classical, Jazz, etc. This works fine except that I have not always remembered to edit the metadata for new downloads, so that some albums have been copied to the NAS with a genre tag that is not one of my 6, or indeed with no genre tag at all. Even though I have edited the metadata to give correct genre tags, this sequence of events seems to have created a permanent and non-variable change in the way that n-stream displays my collection. Specifically, the genre tags (including the null tag) still appear in the list of genres, and will still give access to the tracks to which they used to relate, even though they no longer exist on the NAS.

My question is: how do I get rid of these unwanted genres in the displayed list? A bit of detective work has tracked them down to a folder on my PC called 'This PC\Asset UPnP: ASSETNAS\Genre'. I have yet to find a way to delete the ghosts from my machine.

Any ideas?

Posted on: 03 November 2014 by sjbabbey

Have you tried rescanning your music library with AssetUPnP?

Posted on: 03 November 2014 by John Treble

Originally Posted by sjbabbey:

Have you tried rescanning your music library with AssetUPnP?

Yes, several times. I have also restarted the NAS several times, and switching the whole system off and on again. It seems to me that since the only place the ghostly information resides is in my PC, that the answer should also reside in the PC, but I may be wrong. I have not encountered folders that are apparently indestructible before!

Posted on: 03 November 2014 by sjbabbey

I'm a little confused. You say you have an AssetNAS which presumably has AssetUPnP preinstalled on it but mention that the "ghostly info" is on your P.C. computer. Do you also have a version of Asset installed on your P.C. computer? Are you using that version of Asset rather than the preinstalled Asset UPnP server on your NAS drive?

Have you posted your problem on the Asset/Illustrate forum as Mr Spoon is very helpful and very prompt in responding to queries/issues. It may be as simple as deleting the offending genres from the dBpoweramps %appdata% settings/txt file.

Posted on: 03 November 2014 by John Treble

No. I have not installed Asset on my PC, but there are these folders that have been put there (presumably by the Asset software on the NAS). I can't say that I understand it either, but if I did, I suppose I would know what to do.

I haven't tried asking Mr Spoon, but I will now. Thanks for your help.

Posted on: 03 November 2014 by hungryhalibut

Mr Spoon - what a great name!