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Refresh Media Index

John Chabalko

July 18, 2022 16:52

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I'd posted about something similar a few weeks ago. Since then I've gone through and de-duped my media, reformatted the drive i have connected to my hifiberry, and copied everything over to it.

Going forward i'll manage changes to the media directory via rsync from my computer.

Is there a good way - once the rsync is complete - to have the hifiberry reindex the media folder without rebooting or umounting the USB drive (aka, can this happen in the background). I'll be doing this somewhat regularly as i add music, or update metadata on existing files etc...

I'd put together a script to push the music to the hifiberry and then kick off the re-index.

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  HiFiBerry team July 20, 2022 04:40

  You could use the /opt/hifiberry/bin/update-mpd-db script

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  John Chabalko July 20, 2022 19:58

  excellent - thank you. that seems to work well.

  Something that i noticed - and i'm still trying to figure it out but i figured i'd ask...

  In the Artists view - which is what i tend to use when i'm browsing my music - the first thing displayed is an unnamed album with no picture associated with it. It's just the default circle with a line drawing of a microphone, under it it says "1 album."

  When i click on it it takes ~10 seconds to do anything and then it lists out the Album view - showing what looks like every album that i have in my music archive.

  This wasn't there previously and seems to have appeared in the last couple of days. It seems like an error of some sort, or maybe there's bad metadata causing it to be generated? Is this familiar at all?

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  HiFiBerry team July 21, 2022 10:44

  This comes from files without correct meta data. You should check the meta data of the files you have copied.

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  John Chabalko July 21, 2022 14:39

  something's weird. It can't tell for sure but it looks like when i click into that 1 "album" it then shows a list of every single album that it's indexed (There's certainly a few thousand). So i went and looked at the metadata for a few albums and i don't see anything out of line at all, and all of the ones that i picked to check also appear listed correctly when i browse through starting with Artist.

  I wonder if there's an indexing issue that got exposed somehow. This isn't too big of a deal but definitely looks like an error of some sort. Would this be something that happens within MPD or is there a different piece of software i should dig into? 

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  HiFiBerry team July 21, 2022 14:47

  The metadata are retrieved directly from mpd, therefore the problem is probably caused there