Missing tracks in the BluOS library after ripping a CD and re-indexing

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Miles Mandelson

• January 28, 2021 19:48

I have been using XLD to rip CDs to .flac and apply metadata and, where necessary, I use Yate to finesse the metadata and album art. 99% of the time the files produced are recognised by BluOS while indexing and they appear in the library.  However, occasionally an album may appear incomplete such that the cover art appears but when I click on it either there are no tracks showing or an incomplete set.

This is also the case when finding tracks via folders.

I have examined the metadata and checked that all the tracks in an album have been consistently tagged but still they are not seen by BluOS.

I have used both the Settings>Library>Reindex path and the Help>Diagnostics>Rebuild index path with the same results.

Have others experienced the same issue and is there an explanation/solution?

Thanks.

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  Sam R.

  • January 29, 2021 14:11

  Hello Miles, 

  You might want to check if there are extraneous 'extended tags' on these specific tracks (and remove them entirely). I find Extended Tags tend to override the standard tags. 

  I am unsure how this would be done in your metadata editors, but when using MP3Tagger we usually recommend deleting every tag that isn't one of the following (Year is the last in the list):

  
  Regards,
  Sam R.
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  Miles Mandelson

  • January 29, 2021 17:37

  Hello Sam

  Thanks for your advice. I have struggled to install MP3Tagger or MP3Tag on a Windows PC but I have installed Stamp ID3 Tag Editor.  Whereas other tag editors I use will open the offending .flac file and display its tags, this editor does not although it opens all the other files in the same album.  So there seems to be something fundamentally wrong with the one file after ripping that makes it invisible both to BluOS and Stamp ID3 Tag Editor.

  Would it be worth ripping this track in a non-.flac format such as ALAC?

  Thanks

  Miles

   

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  Miles Mandelson

  • January 29, 2021 18:23

  PS

  I have re-ripped the offending track as an .m4a and BluOS has recognised it when reindexing the library.  However when I click on Technical information for that track nothing appears.  No matter, at least I can now play the track.

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