Mixed up cover art work.

Posted by: Plant Pot on 10 December 2012

I am using Townky (unfortunately), with a QNAP nas and ND5. The latest quirk involves the artwork and album name not matching - not a major problem but quite frustrating. Does anyone have any ideas or pointers towards an idiot's guide to Twonky. Any advice would be very much appreciated. Thanks, Matthew

Posted on: 10 December 2012 by RaceTripper

I'm also using Twonky with an ND5 and have issues with missing artwork. I'd could also use some pointers on getting it to work successfully.

Posted on: 11 December 2012 by mutterback
Originally Posted by RaceTripper:

I'm also using Twonky with an ND5 and have issues with missing artwork. I'd could also use some pointers on getting it to work successfully.

Open the folder for an album and see if the right cover art is there.

 

If the cover art is correct - Twonky is messing up and I don't have experience with it. However, often times you can do something like re-set the cache (Squeeze Server works this way.) look on the admin panel.

 

If the albums have the wrong cover art - you should use Bliss. it is a piece of software that will run through all of your FLAC or other files and sort out the art work and tags automatically.  I've been using it for a month or two and its really helped.

Posted on: 11 December 2012 by RaceTripper
Originally Posted by mutterback:
Originally Posted by RaceTripper:

I'm also using Twonky with an ND5 and have issues with missing artwork. I'd could also use some pointers on getting it to work successfully.

Open the folder for an album and see if the right cover art is there.

 

If the cover art is correct - Twonky is messing up and I don't have experience with it. However, often times you can do something like re-set the cache (Squeeze Server works this way.) look on the admin panel.

 

If the albums have the wrong cover art - you should use Bliss. it is a piece of software that will run through all of your FLAC or other files and sort out the art work and tags automatically.  I've been using it for a month or two and its really helped.

 

Thanks. My art work is correct. I have other issues with Twonky too, like not showing album artists and album title.

 

I'm trying the beta of Asset for Mac, but it won't show my folder organization, which is how I like things presented (since tagging for classical is so badly broken to be mostly useless), but it also doesn't handle 24/192. I get constant dropouts, and that is over ethernet.

 

Playback works pretty well except the n-Stream "play from this track" option disappears, so that makes it very inconvenient to use.

 

I hope Naim finishes their streaming products some day, because for now it is an unfinished product, at least for classical playback using a Mac a a server. The software is utter rubbish, IMO.

 

Posted on: 11 December 2012 by Paul@HiFi Lounge
Originally Posted by mutterback:

If the albums have the wrong cover art - you should use Bliss. it is a piece of software that will run through all of your FLAC or other files and sort out the art work and tags automatically.  I've been using it for a month or two and its really helped.

Hi mutterback, thanks for the heads up on Bliss, I've just downloaded it and set the options so now it is going through my NAS drive and checking all the tagging and cover art as I've got some albums without art and that really bugs me, I keep meaning to getting round to sorting it manually, hopefully though this will do the trick, nice one 

Posted on: 11 December 2012 by Peter W

I used to have troubles getting QNAP/Twonky to display WAV files properly (FLAC's are absolutely fine). Following advice offered by forum members here I downloaded MediaMonkey (free), amend metadata as required and add album artwork with MM. This will result in the creation of a file named  "xxx.thm" for each album (presumably this is a metadata file). Once I have done that Twonky displays everything properly. Personally I prefer to fine tune metadata, and add artwork etc with MM after ripping.

 

To make sure everything is in order use web browser to open Twonky and check. 

Posted on: 11 December 2012 by RaceTripper

MediaMonkey is for Windows, unfortunately. Is there something similar for Mac OS that generates those metadata files?