Uniti Serve indexing woes

Posted by: celestromel on 07 April 2017

I love my Uniti Serve and have ripped some 2,000+ CLASSICAL CDs. But perhaps 2-300 come up as "unknown"  - no fault of the hardware of course! But so many that do turn up in the index have glaring errors such as interchanging Composer and Performer, getting genre completely wrong (since when was "baroque" the same as "jazz"? And since so much classical is played (at least at my place) as the album, searching by track is the only search tool available, it's little help. Yes, I know that "Pop Rules" but that is no help for a classical collector. 

Has anyone out there found a satisfactory solution to these problems?

Posted on: 08 April 2017 by Adam Zielinski

A simple answer is NO.

There are no markers or metadata on a physical CD. What a UnitiServe (and other solutions do) is compare the actual track lenghts to an online database to determine the closest match. It works most of the time, but when it goes wrong it can be quite funny / annoying depending on one's point of view

The only way to 'fix' it is to go into the UnitiServe rips via the nServe app and edit the ripped metadata. 

Posted on: 08 April 2017 by David Hendon

It doesn't help much to say this now, but it is probably best to do the editing as you go along, a few discs at a time.

I put a little coloured sticker on the back of a CD box when I have successfully ripped it and done any editing that is needed. So it's easy to see which rips still need some TLC.

best

David

 

Posted on: 08 April 2017 by Peter Lambert

You could make use of automatic tag editors to at least tell you what the missing details are. For example even though the nServe app is the only way you are allowed to actually edit fields if you can view your unitiserve drive from a computer you could run the Songkong app to against your songs and it creates a report including a nice spreadsheet showing all the data it has found and wants to add, it is quite detailed. And you should be able to just copy and paste the data into nServe app rather than having to retype. saves a bit of time at least.