n-stream app

Posted by: Buntobox on 01 October 2012

Hi

 

Has anybody any advice on how to format metatags so that they show up correctly in the n-stream app? I've just bought an ND5-XS and my music files are already stored and tagged on my PC (for the moment). The problems I have are...no artwork showing up at all and some albums showing up as two separately named files with one half of the album's contents in one and the rest in the other for no apparent reason. I also have "Unknown Author" showing on most but not all app displays of albums, even though I cannot find the differences between the ones that do and the ones that don't, to account for it.

 

Why does the app not have a help file supplied? The ND5-XS is an amazing bit of kit but I feel it is let down somewhat by the assumption that users will "muddle through" the setup of their files for the app.

Posted on: 01 October 2012 by PinkHamster

It is not a matter of the app, but of how your serversoftware is reading the tags and thereafter compiling its library.

 

Which Software are you using to manage your tags? I suggest you get MP3TAG (it' free). Make sure your "albumartist" tag is set correctly and consistently. This is usually the problem, when an album shows as two albums. With MP3Tag you can also embed album artwork into the files, if this is what your server requires in order to show it.

Posted on: 01 October 2012 by Buntobox

Hi

I used MP3Tag to set the tags and everything is set such that it displays correctly in MP3Tag, artwork included...in the n-stream app though, no artwork and "unknown author" labels on virtually everything..

Posted on: 01 October 2012 by PinkHamster
Originally Posted by Buntobox:

Hi

I used MP3Tag to set the tags and everything is set such that it displays correctly in MP3Tag, artwork included...in the n-stream app though, no artwork and "unknown author" labels on virtually everything..

Hmm, are both tags "artist" and "albumartist" populated in your files? FLAC and AAC need "albumartist" while MP3 needs "album artist".

 

Try storing the album art in the folder together with the music file and name it "cover.jpg" or "folder.jpg".

Don't forget to do a full rescan of your library after you have made such changes.

 

I'd be interisting to learn if this will do the trick.

Posted on: 04 October 2012 by Buntobox

Hi Thanks for the advice. I noticed that the album artist tag was populated on some albums but not others. I had removed the display of that tag in MP3Tag because I thought I didn't need it for classical records. Sorting that oner did the trick. I'm still mystified by the srtwork playing up, unless it's because of the naing of the artwork files. I named them desciptively since I have hundreds of them and obviously they can't all be named 'folder' if they're all in the one place.

Posted on: 04 October 2012 by endlessnessism

I have been there and made that mistake.  It seems counter-intuitive but you've got to name the artwork folder.jpg every time.

Posted on: 04 October 2012 by Buntobox

That seems to have done the trick...with all but one of my artwork files. I've deleted it, renamed it, reattached it to the audio files and rescanned them all, but the app simply refuses to display it. The original artwork (which was wrong) is still there, despite purging the image cache on the ipad and even if I delete the artwork file it still displays on the app. I'm stumped.

Posted on: 04 October 2012 by PinkHamster

iPads can be pretty stuborn. I have the same in iPeng (n-stream equivalent for squeezeboxes). What helps is a full rescan of the library (not just a scan for new and changed music, but a complete rebuild of the library), clearing the iPad cache, switching off the app (do you know how to?). Then restart nstream.