Asset uPnP Streaming - A Difficulty...

Hi Simon, thanks for the help - that did cross my mind to do & I guess I should go ahead & give it a try.

I'll let you know how I get on tomorrow - I'm uPnP'd out today!

Oh, just seen your edit; I'm not using a NAS, everything's on a WD HD Thunderbolt drive attached to my iMac.

Rum ol' do bor. The luddite of the east wishes you all good fortune with the new-fangled machine.

See you next weekend.

Ned Ludd.

Hi Tony, do you use iTunes to manage you library?

Just wondering if you deleted the 'corrupt' tracks in you ITunes library but the the files were not actually deleted? - its a config option as I recall but I haven't used iTunes in a while

Aye, but it's all good fun though. I think... Still, no doubt we'll be dragging a bit of carbon through plastic next week!

Bob, good thought but I deleted the files outwith iTunes & then reset the library. 

Have you got this sorted?  It sounds (to me) that what has happened is that you have used iTunes to delete music without telling it to move the files to the recycle bin.

A simple solution is to change the "iTunes Media Folder location" in iTunes setup to a new (empty) folder. Then tell iTunes to consolidate the files.

This will only work though if you have sufficient space on a drive to move all the files to and will create iTunes preferred <library folder>/music/artist/album/track.extension structure.

Eloise

An update - I did as Simon suggested and set up a new directory on the same HD, then copied a number of music files across. I then pointed Asset at this new folder & it found all the new files, listed correctly. I then tried pointing Asset back at the original folder and it went through these files, coming up on the Mu-so correctly (although lots of the artwork's missing). Within the tracks are still a lot of corrupted duplicates so I reckon I need to sift through these and remove them. I can't understand quite where the lousy files have come from, perhaps they've been lurking on the HD for some time & it's only when Asset looked at the collection that they've come to light.

Onward and upward... Thanks to my Andy at my ever-helpful dealer, Signals, I'm now running one of the doug-Sripts that will place a copy of the album artwork in the files, rather than as a separate location as per iTunes.

Thanks for the help folks!

Apologies if this has already been covered,

In iTunes, click (select) a song from an album that shows with duplicates in Asset.

Then right-click and choose "Show in Finder"

(It will open the folder where the sonf file is in)

Do you see the duplicates in that folder?

All is good...

Within my iTunes folder was discreetly hiding another iTunes folder. This contained the "good" files, so I moved all the other files onto a spare external HD (just in case). I set Asset to rescan the file and now I can see all the albums and tracks with no duplicates. The "Doug Script" has successfully put all the artwork back, a very neat program!

Frustrating but I've learned much of interest in the process.

Tony, glad your voyage of discovery has ended well 

Simon