AdminDan Gravell
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An error occurred while saving the comment Are these really separate albums with different titles (e.g. disc numbers), or are they varying by artist? If the former, wouldn't you rather combine the albums rather than delete?
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An error occurred while saving the comment If you click the pencil icon for the album it should show the reason next to a red 'X' mark. Alternatively, on the album overview, click 'why?' for the album in question and the same 'X' mark should be there.
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An error occurred while saving the comment Could you send a debug archive as described here: http://www.blisshq.com/support/faq/general/how-create-debug-archive.html and send to me via email: http://www.blisshq.com/contact.html
Which albums has this occurred with?
Can you describe in more detail how it "requests a higher def"?
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An error occurred while saving the comment Thanks for this. On which page do you mean?
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An error occurred while saving the comment Nice idea, I didn't know about that API. Thanks! It would be useful for the existing artist canonicalisation rule: http://www.blisshq.com/music-library-management-blog/2012/02/28/errant-artist-names/
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An error occurred while saving the comment As you know there's http://bliss:3221/tagindex which returns the indexes of tags that bliss keeps, and http://bliss:3221/musicmodel that returns compliance. These aren't "API" though, they're really just debugging aids and might be withdrawn in future.
So I'll change the title/text to reflect the requirement for integration.
An error occurred while saving the comment I definitely will not move to MySQL.
The main reason is that developing against MySQL will introduce a lot of complexities in the way bliss is written. In addition, at runtime I suspect it will actually be slower than the current technology that bliss uses to store its data - https://github.com/jankotek/mapdb (actually an earlier version) although I haven't tested this. Writing the code to store to MySQL would just take too long.
Second, it would be better for bliss to expose an API that allows it to be integrated with other applications. Using the database is fraught because any changes to the database structure breaks the integration.
I suspect (although I might be wrong) that what you want is an API for integrating. If that is the case can we change the title of the idea?
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An error occurred while saving the comment Yeah, currently bliss runs the same number of parallel actions regardless of the system. In most cases this makes for improved throughput because online lookup etc is IO bound and work can proceed in other areas while a lookup is ongoing.
I don't like recommending this necessarily, but one thing to try out when running bliss is to temporarily disable anti virus during a long scan, if running.
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An error occurred while saving the comment This sounds like a bug; if the tracks are grouped in the bliss album interface they should all be changed. Can you send me a debug archive? See http://www.blisshq.com/support/reporting-problems.html
You can also change the genre by clicking on it in the album detail page.
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An error occurred while saving the comment Yeah, nice idea!
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An error occurred while saving the comment Sorry, that hint is out of date (I noticed this the other day; the next release will improve the text).
What happens is that, if the information is missing, bliss will look for it online. If 'autopopulate' is checked bliss will fill it in automatically. If not, bliss will present a one click fix ("Set to Pop/Rock" or whatever).
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An error occurred while saving the comment Sounds great, but I think bliss will probably always require Java at least...
I invite any XBMC enthusiasts to get in touch and I'll gladly help with the integration. I've done similar things with NAS enthusiasts e.g. Synology, ReadyNAS etc.
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An error occurred while saving the comment Thanks for this. I agree that having the original release date makes more sense when you are trying to choose music to play etc.
About the other tags, please create other ideas for them, or vote for equivalents. I try to keep all the ideas 'atomic' so it's easy to realise when they are completed. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMART_criteria
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An error occurred while saving the comment Thanks. For the Inbox and Activity pages this might make sense. However, for albums and artists wouldn't it be better to use the start character?
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An error occurred while saving the comment I probably need to explain what the pause button does better.
Being paused means bliss doesn't listen for file notifications. However, if you make your own changes via bliss, bliss will re-assess the files.
It's probably more confusing because when you switch from 'play' to 'pause', both the current file scan AND the current assessments are paused. The latter bit contradicts the fact that bliss still re-assesses when paused.
What are you trying to achieve?
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An error occurred while saving the comment @Roy if the album is in the non compliant list, and you only have the cover art rule enabled, then bliss has tried and failed to find art automatically. You can sometimes find extra art for that album by clicking the pencil icon and viewing the change art screen. Further, if you want to choose a lot of artwork at once, use the cover art alternatives page: http://www.blisshq.com/music-library-management-blog/2012/01/24/new-release-20120119-cover-art-alternatives/
Any album in the compliant or non-compliant list has completed its scan. When the scan is progressing, you get "unknown" and the progress spinner.
An error occurred while saving the comment @Adriana sorry, not yet. You can get a MUCH more verbose log at http://localhost:3221/logs (replace localhost with your computer name if running elsewhere) which is printable but this is very 'technical' and probably not understandable(!)
An error occurred while saving the comment Yeah filters for the activity page would be useful. Free text search would also be useful.
Note that you can filter the album view by non-compliant albums, which might make searching easier...
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An error occurred while saving the comment Sure, that makes sense. By 'music player' I just mean whatever is displaying those ratings. The reason I ask is because there are multiple ways of storing rating - some write to tags (like you are suggesting) and some store the ratings themselves.
But if this is about tagging rating in the music file, then that's all good.
An error occurred while saving the comment Wouldn't you normally use your music player's own rating system to do this? How would bliss help here?
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An error occurred while saving the comment Thanks Andrew. To clarify: where are those filenaming conventions and string replacements important?
An error occurred while saving the comment Ok, assuming you have enough votes left, could you create a new idea for the scaper idea? Describing what it does (you can just copy and paste).
I can change this idea to be the control over filenames.
The 'support for more media streamers' can only really be added when the media streamers that are required are named, and the nature of the support is described. I need these ideas to be 'SMART' - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMART_criteria
An error occurred while saving the comment Ok, I'll change the title to "More control over the image file name" and do a little editing of the description (remove the first para, maybe introduce with the concept of more control over the filename and then have the rest of how this works with the WD TV Live). Is that ok?
An error occurred while saving the comment Ok, now I see why you said "This leads onto support...". If you had the control over the filename you could do that, right?
An error occurred while saving the comment Thanks for this Andrew. It's always interesting to hear of specific uses with different pieces of hardware/software.
I really want to keep to a one idea:one thread approach so it's easy to measure how in demand different features are. In this idea I count at least three ideas, so I'd like to split them:
* Increase number of sources
* Allow for optional naming of external files
* Better interoperability with the WD TV Live metadata facilityFor the first one, I've already declined http://ideas.blisshq.com/forums/21939-bliss/suggestions/2980994-more-cover-sources and I'd want specific sources to be suggested, ideally one per thread again. WRT Google and Amazon, both of these do not allow automated querying of their API via bliss. Google allows manual querying (which is why bliss uses it for the change cover art screen). Amazon changed their ToS recently to stop certain accounts that don't sell etc via Amazon, which stopped bliss using Amazon. So please don't add either of them.
The optional naming of the external files is a great idea and should be in a separate thread I think. I could add my own ideas about how this could be parameterised.
Which leads me to the meat of this idea, I think. Unfortunately I don't fully understand whether you are asking for bliss to read the .metathumb files (and so use this data to populate tags inside your music files), or bliss to write the .metathumb files from the data it finds (and so help the WD TV Live to show data that bliss has found).
I think all of these ideas are valid, I just want to organise them appropriately so that they can be voted for and the votes mean something.
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An error occurred while saving the comment It depends on the music player. If your music player doesn't show the composer tag, and you want to browse my composer, then you're stuck.
I agree that ideally the composer tag should be used.
The whole manner by which 'classical' composers, performers, conductors and the like are tagged is discussed in http://www.blisshq.com/music-library-management-blog/2011/03/23/composers-performers-soloists-conductors/
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An error occurred while saving the comment @Adam adding new maximum sizes is easy, so I just added that in. It'll be in the release after next, in about two weeks.
An error occurred while saving the comment There is a possible workaround for this that I haven't tested. The settings are kept in a text file in the following location:
{user folder}/.bliss/settings
Inside you'll see lines such as:
com.elsten.bliss.music.policy.coverartpolicy.CoverArtPolicy.approxMaxHeight=2147483647
com.elsten.bliss.music.policy.coverartpolicy.CoverArtPolicy.approxMaxWidth=2147483647
com.elsten.bliss.music.policy.coverartpolicy.CoverArtPolicy.approxMinHeight=0
com.elsten.bliss.music.policy.coverartpolicy.CoverArtPolicy.approxMinWidth=0Stop bliss, then change those numbers to what you want the max height, width and min height, width to be (in pixels).
Then restart bliss.
I don't recommend keeping it this way for a long time... I'm not sure how the user interface will 'react'.
An error occurred while saving the comment I've not added in a new size since in 900x900 option... Maybe the final step should be a custom sizing option.
An error occurred while saving the comment Luca, what's possibly not that clear is that there's actually a leniency allowed for looking for art, which is 10% either side, or 10 pixels maximum. So if you have 500x500 minimum, it will find art that is 490x490. However, such art will still be marked uncompliant. It would be good to allow leniency in the rule (and also maybe alter the leniency so that, in your example, 450x450 is allowed).
An error occurred while saving the comment I added in a 900x900 option, but custom sizes are still left to do.
Ok, but obviously I'd also like to know why it's stuck too. How do you know it was stuck applying a fix? Could you send me a debug archive? http://www.blisshq.com/support/faq/general/how-create-debug-archive.html