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Mediatomb unable to set up FLAC library

Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2012 3:14 pm
by ltmachado
Hello All, I'm a Linux/Amahi noob so sorry if I miss anything obvious here.
Built a new Amahi server over the weekend to replace a WHS box.
I have two music libraries, one is created with iTunes (.m4a), the other with DBPoweramp (.flac).
The .m4a files I have set up on the existing "Music" share.
The .flac files I have set up on a share called "Music_CD".
Both shares have the same properties for access, etc.
When I add the "Music" (.m4a) share to Mediatomb via the web-interface, it scans the files and creates the usual Artist/Album/ blah blah listings within the "Database" tree.
However, when I add the "Music_CD" share (.flac) to Mediatomb, nothing happens. No Artist/Album categories, no nothing. I can see the files only under the "PC Directory" tree.
When I use any of my PCs to connect to Mediatomb, only the iTunes albums show up.
I tried just adding the flac library alone, still no results.

What did I miss here? I tried a "File -L -i" command (all music files are on greyhole) and it reported "audio/x-flac" so I can't see where the import.js script is failing here...

Any help would be appreciated!

LTM

Re: Mediatomb unable to set up FLAC library

Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2012 4:17 pm
by bigfoot65
Is this Ubuntu or Fedora? MediaTomb is not working correctly on Ubuntu and currently ALPHA.

If it's Fedora, did you check out the wiki or MediaTomb web site?

Re: Mediatomb unable to set up FLAC library

Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2012 9:06 pm
by ltmachado
I'm on Fedora 14.
I did spend some time on the wiki site, and at SourceForge.net, and so far haven't turned up much. Most posts deal with transcoding, which I don't want to do.
My best guess so far is the tags on my dBpoweramp created .flac files are somehow not compatable with the import script, but I don't know how to verifiy this.

Re: Mediatomb unable to set up FLAC library

Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2012 4:55 am
by bigfoot65
That is possible. Only recommendation I could offer is to check the software's web site. Most have forums and might be something there to guide you.