While the feature to not re-scan on restart has been there for a long time, on every upgrade it re-scans the entire library. If there are only superficial changes or new feature additions such as the new settings page, why would it re-scan the entire library? I understand if it is something like fingerprinting once it is enabled would need to re-scan or hopefully just fingerprint. I am running on a Synology and after each upgrade it takes 2-3 days to finish re-indexing my library with almost constant disk usage. I would like to save wear on my drives and sanity since drives can be louder and I work next to NAS box.

On my sonos different CDs from a single box set come up as separate albums with several identical pieces of album art in a row. Is there a way of making multiple box set of CDs show as a single album entry? At present the different CDs have been ripped into separate folders. I could simply put all the tracks into a single folder but then the track numbers would all have to be changed, a task I'm trying to avoid as I can see no quick, easy and reliable way of doing this, and Bliss doesn't always easily accept the altered track numbers. Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't.

It would be great if there could be a rule that would use the Sonos API to trigger a reindexing of the Sonos music library at the end of the rescan / new scan / find new content processes.

Currently, although bliss discovers and applies rules to new entries on my Synology NAS, I have to wait until the scheduled Sonos rebuild, or go and do a manual reindex..

Id bliss could trigger the Sonos index rebuild then adding new material to the Sonos system becomes one simple task - ripping the music to the library. Thereafter, everything is automated. Magic!

Is there a way to start/stop the library scanning manually ?

It could be useful for me :
I have about 600 music albums to organize, and when it comes to correct LOTS of tags I'm facing a really slow process.
I'm hosting bliss on my Synology NAS, so it's not really powerfull.

As soon as the tags are fixed for an entire album (I mostly use the "Inbox" page), the system automaticly launch a scan of this album... slowing down the whole system and the tag fix of other albums.

Maybe you could integrate a button to start scanning AFTER tag/folder/cover fixing ?

bliss could do an album by album 'text' report (spreadsheet style like tags pages) of the library status prior to installing the new version and another dump after installation of the new. bliss could ask the user if they wanted to get a report when they have clicked on 'Update' and again after they have installed the new version.

[Column] - Album Title [data] Name of album
[Column] - Compliant [data] ( one of the following )
- no linked releases ( means the album is Compliant by default (CBD) - this is good info to have )
- one linked release ( probably the one you want )
- multiple linked releases ( you may want to examine this more closely )
[Column] - Non-compliant [data] yes or no
[Column] - Artwork [data] yes or no

Then we need a utility to compare the two reports and list all albums which have changed status.

Unmatched albums in the second report are additions to the library.

Text in ( ) is just my comments.

The more I think about this, the more I like it. ;-)

What provoked the idea was an increase of 11 compliant albums and a decrease of 2 missing art albums between the 20180806 version and the previous one. There is at present no way to identify which albums were involved.

When I use the "Check tag accuracy" feature for album title in classical music, most of the non-compliant results take the form of wanting to remove the composer name - for example Bliss wants to change "Abel: Music for flute and strings" to simply "Music for flute and strings". However, the iTunes style guide says "The album title should include the composers, followed by a colon, followed by the work titles, catalog numbers, or type of works such as Sonatas or Preludes" (https://help.apple.com/itc/musicstyleguide/en.lproj/static.html) This makes sense - otherwise albums called "Haydn: String Quartets", "Beethoven: String Quartets", "Debussy: String Quartets" will all become "String Quartets". I wonder what database is insisting on this? It means that most iTunes-compliant classical albums come up as non-compliant in Bliss. Any way to change this? Thanks!

As you can use album name with blanks, no spaces, underscores etc perhaps there is a place for a file naming scheme that moves THE to the end. This would not impact on The in the TAG, leaving The Beatles alone but doing the file naming as Beatles, The.

Just thinking this could be used for Album Artist, Track Artist, Album Name, Track Name.

If you use the Sort Artist, for example, so that you get THE to the end what happens if the Sort field being used is blank. Works fine if the field is populated. Just seems to me that it would be easier if the file naming option was present and save the user work with having to get all the sort names correct.

Even if you had to do something like suffixThe(<Album Artist>) to call up a function to work on the Tag you have chosen. Though this has potential problems with underscores, no spaces etc. I am imagining that those who would use it are going to be using tags with spaces <Artist Name> so perhaps the option <Artist Name,The>

Anyway just an idea.