A colon in metadata creates an issue
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I found out that the presence of a colon in the album title prevents the newly reindexed album from showing in the Library>New section of the menu.
Probably the same goes for other data fields too, but I didn't test that.
This could be very confusing when maintaining your library.
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Alain
Please send our Support Crew a log file using Settings, Send Support Request. Let them know what you are seeing and we can arrange a music sample to test locally...
That being said, look for an update to Android in the next 72 hours - let our Support Crew know if it's happening on the updated App.
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In most operating systems, not just BluOS, a colon can represent a volume change and can create a number of issues. Slashes and even question marks as wild cards can also have strange side effects.
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I have colons in various album titles without issues. Meaning these are in the metadata tags, not in the filenames.
However, I have seen another bug though with the very common characters apostrophe or left- or right-parenthesis in metadata messing up things, has been around for at least 8 months, still not fixed. The French fellow Canadians will really appreciate apostrophe causing issues..... C'est dingue!
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I should add that the album with the colon in the title actually gets indexed and can be searched in the Windows app. It only does not show in "new". I would call that inconsistent behavior.
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Tony,
I seem to be unable to reproduce the issue.
I reloaded the original tracks containing the colon in my NAS library, rebuild the index and to my surprise the album does now show in the "new" section.
I swear the first time I reindexed, the album was not there. Only after the deletion of the colon did it show.
I have no clue what happened. Even a reboot changed nothing.
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You mentioned "reindex" in your first post, and "rebuild" in your latest. These are different things - https://www.blisshq.com/music-library-management-blog/2018/02/14/maildump-bluesound/ - maybe that's related?
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Hi Dan,
Yes, I am aware of the difference. At first I only reindexed, as I usually do when adding new albums or tracks.
At the request of Tony I tried to replicate the error but didn't succeed even when using a rebuild before adding the album to make sure caches were cleared.
I still don't know why the first time, after a reindex (followed by a rebuild if I remember correctly), the album didn't show in "new" and why it now always appears as if nothing is wrong, even with a colon.
Maybe a hiccup in the local network???
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