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posted on 6-22-2004 at 02:43 AM
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Content of my music folders.
My music library has been manually configured over the course of a few years. I have found that I am not very consistant with updating my ID tags,
and renameing and orginising music in to folders is much simpler until Ejukebox came along. Now I am noticing it tends to stop in between songs quite
a bit. My theory is that it is seeing a cover art image file, or a playlist file that is already inside of one of the folders and stops, possibly
getting confused.
Is this causing it to stop?
Can I have other etc music related things in the folders or does it have to be strictly mp3/wmv/ogg etc?
thanks
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posted on 6-22-2004 at 02:52 AM
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RE: Now I am noticing it tends to stop in between songs quite a bit....in the folders or does it have to be strictly mp3/wmv/ogg etc
The folders that contain your music can contain any other non-music files...that doesn't matter. If there is a cover.jpg file it will use that
for the albums cover image during eJukebox database setup.
When is it stopping? During song playback or when you are setting up the eJukebox music database?
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posted on 6-22-2004 at 03:25 AM
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Song changes.
I don't have anything queued up, just running by itself randomly
My music has a variety of codecs, but not anything weird.
Now that I know its not jpegs foobaring things, ill look in more detail as to whats in tehre that could screw something up.
Maybe a rouge or a long forgotton winamp playlist file.
*goes back to snooping*
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posted on 6-30-2004 at 09:05 PM
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I reverted back to 3.6 and all is well. not to woried about it right now
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posted on 6-30-2004 at 09:59 PM
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Don't want to mess up the inner feelings of relief you may have from it  , but sticking with an old version is not a good sollution in the long run. Especially not in the audiosoft world, where every new version is one
more step against nirvana
Are you sure your tags are properly set up? You should have set the albumname and songalbum up properly in the tags when using ej. It's not a
very good idea to solely base it on filenames. Editing a lot of tags is a pain, but is worth it at the end of the day. If you get hold of a good tag
editor, tag&rename for instance, that will make the task much easier.
In additon make sure that both shuffle and repeat are disabled in winamp..
Hope this can help...
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dick
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posted on 6-30-2004 at 11:21 PM
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Nobody can seem to be consistant with tags. I have found that with my library.
My present solution is to simply rename/edit/fix the song as I see it pop up in Ejuke.
I tried quite a few tag editors actualy, and had dissapointing results. Does anybody have a editor that works really well with EJuke?
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posted on 6-30-2004 at 11:37 PM
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When I get a new album I always assume that the tags are a mess and doesn't import them to ejukebox without running them through a tag editor
first.. But different people got different habits
The fine thing with tag&rename is that it utilizes the great library of allmusic.com when getting tag information. Just press F10 when you view an
album and it looks after it on allmusic.com and bakes the tags, including coverimage, into the mp3's.. You can of course use the internal editor
in ejukebox as well.. But personally I don't find it as effective as tag&rename when it comes to tagging a lot of songs and albums at once..
But use what works best for you
Nb: Remember to rebuild the database when you use external programs to edit your mp3's... This should also be done if you move the files
physically on your harddrive. My theory on why your playback stops sometimes is that these files have been altered in some way, outside ejukebox and
ejukebox isn't able to locate the information it needs to play the song..
Rebuild is done from options--> update database-->Rebuild-database..
Hope this helps..
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posted on 6-30-2004 at 11:56 PM
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Useful info about the id tags, thank you.
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