UnitiServe SSD > died tonight + help with MinimServer

Move one of those into the other...problem solved.  Or create a new directory called MyMusic and drop them both into it.

Thanks Bart.

question: how to handle artists that are in both folders. Merge them? Or just leave two subfolders Naim and NaimDownloads and let MinimServer handle it?

My concern is tagging of the ripped WAV files.

Adam

Adam, just move the folders and let MinimServer handle it.  Having just one folder per artist will be only for your visual benefit when browsing your files; the server will sort it all out!  Tagging comes along for the ride with the individual files; the names of their folders is irrelevant.  

Bart posted:

Adam, just move the folders and let MinimServer handle it.  Having just one folder per artist will be only for your visual benefit when browsing your files; the server will sort it all out!  Tagging comes along for the ride with the individual files; the names of their folders is irrelevant.  

Tested this option - unfortunately UnitiServe rips are tagged in such a way, that MinimServer does not recognise them sufficiently to handle the 'artist' sorting (for example).

Folder view works ok, so will probably use that in the meantime.

If they are original WAV rips, you will only see the individual tracks. Naim FLAC rips, backed up to a nas, will work on Minim. I'd advise anyone to convert any Naim WAV rips to FLAC, ready for the time when the US goes belly up. I'd also advise ditching the serve and using Minim on a nas, which is far easier all round. 

Adam my fault - I read too quickly. I now understand it's your music STORE on the nas and that you ripped to WAV.  Yes, those wav files can probably only be used in the folder view by MinimServer

Many of us with uServe converted over to letting the serve rip in flac, and convert already ripped wav files to flac, to avoid this eventuality.  The uServe's flac rips are tagged with the usual Album and Artist tags and the artwork is present, and thus could be used as I described above.  The wav rips are not so useful outside of the uServe environment.  You might want to get the uServe repaired (under warranty I hope) and first thing let it convert all those wav rips to flac.  You can always transcode from flac to wav for playback if you like.  Sorry!

Will do so (start ripping to FLAC). As soon as the US is back from the service, will get it to convert all my rips to FLAC as well.

For now I will soldier on with a Folder View in MinimServer.

Adam

Adam Zielinski posted:

Will do so (start ripping to FLAC). As soon as the US is back from the service, will get it to convert all my rips to FLAC as well.

For now I will soldier on with a Folder View in MinimServer.

Adam

Now that I'm so invested in figuring out how to do everything in MinimServer on a nas, I am less and less enamoured with my uServe.  It's ~5 years old and I imagine would not fetch much on the secondary market. But those (HungryHalibut) who advocate 'just' using a nas and MinimServer have won me over.  The uServe was exactly what I needed 5 years ago, when I wanted to enter the world of hard drive-based music without having to learn all this stuff.  Fast forward to now . . . it's as if it has served its purpose.

The mere fact that MinimServer has a setting to ignore "The" in artist names, so that The Beatles appear under B and The Who under W is a metaphor.