"Unknown albums" in n-Serve.
Posted by: dave marshall on 14 August 2018
I've just discovered eight albums which are showing up as "unknown album" within n-Serve, I'm guessing that these escaped my notice, early doors, when I was initially ripping my entire CD collection en masse.
There's an album reference number allocated to each, but a Google search isn't coming up with anything, so I'm assuming these are somewhat random numbers generated by the Rovi database.
Any ideas as to how to identify these albums ................ though one could argue that if I can't recognise them on playback, then they can't be all that essential, and I might as well delete them! 
dave marshall posted:Ha!
It's looking as if I haven't been as lax as I was supposing, since four of these unknown albums now turn out to be duplicates of rips already correctly filed on the HDX.
So, it would seem that the HDX suffered a hiccup during the ripping process, creating an additional copy which the database was unable to identify, notwithstanding that it correctly found the first one!
Sometimes, just spinning the silver discs seemed a lot simpler.
Yep, it's crossed my mind more than once...
Just a passing thought... so having ripped these hundreds or thousands of CDs, are they adequately backed up?
Forty years in the IT industry has had its toll on my thinking, I'm afraid... boring stuff like backups comes all too easily to my mind. One day I must get round to doing it.
rjstaines posted:Just a passing thought... so having ripped these hundreds or thousands of CDs, are they adequately backed up?
Forty years in the IT industry has had its toll on my thinking, I'm afraid... boring stuff like backups comes all too easily to my mind. One day I must get round to doing it.
Yes, Roger,
The HDX backs up new rips to it's own second internal drive at a set time daily.
Additionally, I do an occasional manual back up to each of two NAS drives, one of which is kept elsewhere ............ phew! 