I've probably done something stupid, but I'd appreciate any help on this.
CDs were ripped to FLAC using dbpoweramp. They are stored on a QNAP NAS using twonky. For multiple disc albums (including compilations) I put all the tracks into one folder and changed the album title so that they were all the same for the tracks from all the original album CDs (so I didn't have one album called 'Top tunes - Disc 1' and another called 'Top tunes - Disc 2' - they were all just called 'Top tunes').
In N-stream that all worked fine - in the 'album' view the tracks were all within the one album, and were shown in the order that they were on the CDs, with all the CD1 tracks first, then CD2 tracks in order etc. You selected teh track that you wanted and it played without problem.
Then I upgraded the UQ to v3.9 software, and twonky to 6.0.38. I'm not sure which of those actions has caused this, but now...the N-stream still shows the tracks in the order of the CDs as it did before...but when you select a track it now plays a different one. So if you picked the 4th song in the list (expecting song 4 of CD1) what gets played is the fourth song overall based on track number with no reference to the CD value (so on a 2 CD list, this order goes both track 1s, then both track 2s, so you get track 2 of CD2).
I can get round this by renaming the tracks into 'Disc 1' and 'Disc 2' so they appear as two separate albums, but that seems to defeat the point of what I was trying to do in the first place.
Any ideas? (I'm not technically proficient enough to try coding on the QNAP I don't think - I can cope with changing file names but coding is beyond me).
All help gratefully received!
(Loving the UQ though, would love it even more if it properly integrated spotify rather than iphone to airport express).
Thanks
dave
Posted on: 17 March 2012 by Dungassin
I thought about doing it this way, but decided it was too much effort. When you look at the directory containing your FLAC files for an album, the file names go 01 ..., 02 ... etc., and if you look at the metadata for each file you will see track 1/12, etc etc for each track. Perhaps you will have to go into the metadata and change that track information to an appropriate */* figure so that you don't have duplications? Don't really know, but it might be worth taking a copy of the offending directories, renaming it (and the album file names in it) and trying it on the copy to see what happens?
Posted on: 12 April 2012 by PG
This is not an answer to this post, but a further question.
I have had fun ripping an Orchestral/Cast Version of Les Mis, have done it several times in different formats.
Rightly or wrongly I rip using Phile audio to a portable hard drive.
I then transfer to my Qnap. The portable hard drive files are fine but when they transfer to the Qnap, they get changed, particularly disc 1 of the 3. They can but not always show under the correct title in media server but when I look on my Qute, cannot find them, after some searching I discovered they are under unknown (as an artist).
I have tried re building databases etc, does anyone have any thoughts for this novice ripper....,
No other CD has this issue as far as I am aware.
Posted on: 12 April 2012 by okli
Dave, did you try to rebuild the twonky's database - this should be possible to be done from the web interface. Honestly speaking I haven't any luck with disc number sorting on my 5.1 twonky - doesn't matter how I configured I never managed to get the server consider the disc number of multi-disc boxes, so I had exactly the same effect - the solution for me is to leave the disc number, but to re-tag the track numbers starting from 1 of CD1 to the end. However, I think this was fixed in v6 and as you wrote it did work. The other thought is that the view configuration has been changed / lost after the upgrade to the latest version. In any case I'm quite sure that twonky is the culprit. Here a link with information how to configure the views through the web interface - perhaps this could help:
http://forums.linn.co.uk/bb/showthread.php?tid=10532
