Possible to disable the music database? (2 Viewers)

[Stor-Anders]

I'd like NOT to use the Music Database at all. No indexing, no reading tags what so ever.

However, no matter how often I uncheck the "Scan Music Folders" in configuration, ALL folder are getting checked again automagically.

Anyone knows how to get rid of it?

 

[hwahrmann]

Do you see any messages in the MP log, when the Music Folders are checked?
Are you saying the "Scan Music Folders" gets always back as Checked altough you unchecked it?

 

[Maschine]

However, no matter how often I uncheck the "Scan Music Folders" in configuration, ALL folder are getting checked again automagically.

That's the correct behaviour as this is meant NOT as monitoring, but as one-time-scan. It will only scan the checked folders if you additionally click on the "scan now" (or similar) button.

During using MP the DB should not be used...

Maschine

 

[Stor-Anders]

Thanks for your reply, but there's still something fishy going on...

Every now and then I clear the database, and then it's all fine.

I name my songs <Track> - <Title>.mp3
For example: 01 - Personal Jesus.mp3

Since I invested some time in naming (and tagging) them I'd like them to be presented that way in MP. Always. No tag reading, no database.

Just to show you what I mean I took two screenshots today.

The first is with a clean database.

The second is a minute later, when I played/skipped though all songs in that folder, went up one folder level and then back.

Voilá, another - unwanted - view that is based on tags, not the filenames.

Maybe I'm just plain stupid, but in that case - please enlighten me

// Anders

 

[ronilse]

Hi,
Have you disable the "Load ID3 tag's etc..) in MP setup -> General settings?

In MP Setup -> Music -> Music views, you can make your own settings for the views.

Regards
Roy

 

[Stor-Anders]

Hi,

the "Load ID3 tag's etc.." is not checked.

I know I can create my own views, but thats is a little over the top, don't you think?

It should be so much easier just to setup MP not to read tags. Ever.

Maybe I should just surrender, but the thing is I really want this to work.
A system without tag reading is (to my best knowledge so far) much faster. Just the way I like it.
As a bonus, you get the view you deserve - easy to read if you have named your files in a good manor. Impossible to read if not..

But thanks for the tip!

// Anders

 

[ronilse]

It should not add anything to database, when that is disabled & you not run the "update database..." tool.

In MyMusic when playing, is the Sort by set to file?

Regards
Roy

 

[Stor-Anders]

No, default it is set to "by name".

But as you see in the screenshots, the same view and sorting is used - but still the listing is different.
The only thing that happened between the pictures is that the song are played once and I went up one folder level, then back again. Nothing more.

Is there a hidden service I can stop or a manual hack in the configuration perhaps?

// Anders

 

[ronilse]

Can you set it to sort by: file & test.

I'll test this later today, maybe there are something wrong there.

Regards
Roy

 

[Stor-Anders]

No problemo.

Sortera efter: Fil is Swedish for Sort by: File

First time Mediaportal opens the folder:

Second time, after I played a few songs:

It seems as MediaPortal reads all tags when I first open the folder and/or play a song.
This time I only skipped through 4 songs, but all song's tags were read anyway.

Thanks for your quick response!

Regards,
Anders