Playlist Correction Features

[negativzeroe 79]

Something that searches the same library type for things with like names. I've corrected my playlists several times but for some reason some keep getting wrong.

[Luke 40121]

What exactly is the problem?

[negativzeroe 79]

11 minutes ago, Luke said:

What exactly is the problem?

Voodoo is by Godsmack in this playlist.

Edited September 21, 2020 by negativzeroe

[Happy2Play 9450]

So the AlbumArtist for that track is the issue? 

But according to musicbrainz the track is suppose to be Voodoo (assuming I am looking at the correct album, Godsmack track 12), as the track Voodo Reprise is by Artist shown above.  So without actual musicbrainz tagged tracks, when a by name is done you will get results like above.

 

So correcting the track should fix the playlist, but changing the track name will require a manual fix in the playlist item path.

[negativzeroe 79]

29 minutes ago, Happy2Play said:

So the AlbumArtist for that track is the issue? 

But according to musicbrainz the track is suppose to be Voodoo (assuming I am looking at the correct album, Godsmack track 12), as the track Voodo Reprise is by Artist shown above.  So without actual musicbrainz tagged tracks, when a by name is done you will get results like above.

 

So correcting the track should fix the playlist, but changing the track name will require a manual fix in the playlist item path.

That is the thing though. The track for Godsmack is correct. The playlist is looking at an entirely different song. I notice this once in a blue moon so I can't provide any logs as to why it happens because there wouldn't be a feasible way to determine when it happened, but last time I corrected my playlist I used listFix() and spent hours on it so I may have missed a few but it's doubtful, considering at the time I put all artists in alphabetical order. These are .m3u8 files that sit in the root of my music directory that I update.

So basically the request in this example would be, in playlist view, select an option for "correct" or something and it searches for all terms in track, album, artist - and you select the correct one to replace with. Maybe at some point smarter so that it ignores some terms like Reprise.

[Happy2Play 9450]

  

8 minutes ago, negativzeroe said:

The track for Godsmack is correct. The playlist is looking at an entirely different song.

 

I would think we would need to see the actual playlist then as it would have to be point to the wrong track

Edited September 21, 2020 by Happy2Play

[negativzeroe 79]

I mean it just points to the song. I've confirmed that and will correct it, I don't mind that, but I think we were getting sidetracked, I just posted this correctional tool idea under feature requests.

[Happy2Play 9450]

The server does not generate these playlists .m3u8 files correct?  I know I don't have any from Emby.

[negativzeroe 79]

Correct. They existed before I used media browser 3. They just point into subdirectories. Emby picks it up and updates it and just adds using the same format.