problems importing music

by **rubbah** on Fri Sep 10, 2004 7:46 am

hey

when i try to import all (80gb) my music files (mp3) xlobby seems to hang or quit. it begins to import but something happens. dont't know what

but when i try to import just a couple of albums everything is ok

what could be wrong?

by **dalanik** on Fri Sep 10, 2004 8:06 am

Most probably one of your MP3 files is corrupted or more probable, has an invalid tag... try examining database files to find out on which file it hangs....

by **rubbah** on Fri Sep 10, 2004 9:03 am

dalanik wrote:Most probably one of your MP3 files is corrupted or more probable, has an invalid tag... try examining database files to find out on which file it hangs....

dam.. maybe i would be an idea to ad some sort of ignore corrupt files option in the importer

i use the directory structure option when importing, does it still read the id3 tag?

by **dalanik** on Fri Sep 10, 2004 9:08 am

rubbah wrote:
dalanik wrote:Most probably one of your MP3 files is corrupted or more probable, has an invalid tag... try examining database files to find out on which file it hangs....

dam.. maybe i would be an idea to ad some sort of ignore corrupt files option in the importer

i use the directory structure option when importing, does it still read the id3 tag?

I suppose it does...

When u start Xlobby, hit F2, and goto Basic tab. Under Music, specify the dir u import from, and hit IMPORT.

Then monitor the names of the files being imported... if it hangs on 1 file, that file should be displayed in the dialog....

I had the same problem when I started using XLobby, and now it works OK, on around 5000 MP3's, so I don;t believe the number of files/size of the database is the problem.

This would be allso appropriate time to make an feature request for a slight improvement of import - what about an optin to SKIP invalid files, and log them into import.log file in xlobby folder?

D.

by **rhinoman** on Fri Sep 10, 2004 7:36 pm

This would be allso appropriate time to make an feature request for a slight improvement of import - what about an optin to SKIP invalid files, and log them into import.log file in xlobby folder?

That would be useful.