Tracks with a & in tag or filename play too often
Posted: 16 Nov 2022 08:59
Hello Bernd,
It looks like a bug i found, but please prove me wrong
We noticed a long time ago that a lot of tracks seemed to be playing more often than they should according to the library settings.
Using your excellent statistics tool it became clear that indeed some of these tracks were played almost daily.
All of the offending tracks had a &-sign in either a tag or in the filename.
To investigate, in a certain track i removed the & from the artist-tag only and from another track i removed the & from both the tag and the filename.
After that i waited a few weeks and checked with the statistics tool if that made any difference. It did seem to help a little but not as much as i would have expected.
And then i noticed another thing: Although i removed the &-sign from the tags, the statistics tool still shows the & in the artist-tag. How is that possible?
Another thing is that if i lookup the info on the track there is no play information for any track with an & in a tag or filename not even after i changed the track to remove the &-sign. (for reference i also include the info for an Abba track which clearly shows the last played date)
That probably explains why the tracks get scheduled again and again, but how do i fix this?
The tracks i show in the screenshots are 'Al Bano & Romina Power - Liberta' and 'Hall & Oates - I Can't Go For That'. From the first i removed the & from both the tag and the filename, from the last i removed the & from the filename only. For reference i include Abba - Super Trouper which is in the same medialib but is played a lot less frequently.
Attached you will find screenshots of these findings as well as our relevant settings. Should you need any more data please ask for it. (As there are more than 3 screenshots i zipped them)
With kind regards,
Jack Reitsema
ICT Omroep Eemsdelta
It looks like a bug i found, but please prove me wrong
We noticed a long time ago that a lot of tracks seemed to be playing more often than they should according to the library settings.
Using your excellent statistics tool it became clear that indeed some of these tracks were played almost daily.
All of the offending tracks had a &-sign in either a tag or in the filename.
To investigate, in a certain track i removed the & from the artist-tag only and from another track i removed the & from both the tag and the filename.
After that i waited a few weeks and checked with the statistics tool if that made any difference. It did seem to help a little but not as much as i would have expected.
And then i noticed another thing: Although i removed the &-sign from the tags, the statistics tool still shows the & in the artist-tag. How is that possible?
Another thing is that if i lookup the info on the track there is no play information for any track with an & in a tag or filename not even after i changed the track to remove the &-sign. (for reference i also include the info for an Abba track which clearly shows the last played date)
That probably explains why the tracks get scheduled again and again, but how do i fix this?
The tracks i show in the screenshots are 'Al Bano & Romina Power - Liberta' and 'Hall & Oates - I Can't Go For That'. From the first i removed the & from both the tag and the filename, from the last i removed the & from the filename only. For reference i include Abba - Super Trouper which is in the same medialib but is played a lot less frequently.
Attached you will find screenshots of these findings as well as our relevant settings. Should you need any more data please ask for it. (As there are more than 3 screenshots i zipped them)
With kind regards,
Jack Reitsema
ICT Omroep Eemsdelta