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<blockquote data-quote="Ben" data-source="post: 101726" data-attributes="member: 19473">I have a lot (~9000albums) . After scan I found that going to Albums is very slow.Also most pictures were plainly wrong, checked the directories and found lots of wrong pictures in folder.jpg files. Also many albums may have incorrect or no tags.But I am using the same directory with the albums from another PC with WMP V11., and there most albums are OK. I have been reading several posts here about how MP gets its pictures. Is there somewhere an exact description?I want to start a new directory with my MP3's that is specially for mediaportal as WMP continously updates info in the directory.&nbsp; If I have a directory structure like:&nbsp;&nbsp; Music&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Artistname&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Year - Albumname &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 01 - title.mp3&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 02 - title.mp3&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; .....&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Year - Albumname&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Artistnameetc.Is there a way that it will only use the directory/filenames for filling the database?And can I specify the convention I use for the Albumname, Year. Title and track number such that it will use that for filling the database?&nbsp;I would like to start from scratch, how to I remove the current data from the database without a complete reinstall?I removed the folder.jpg option in setup and rescanned, but still many problems.I then found an option with MP itself to rebuild the music database. But when that one was finished there appeared to be nothing in my database. So I rescanned using mediaportal setup.Is the rebuild in mp itself the way to 'clean' the database?Going back from an 'inside' album view to albums view is very slow, probably due to the number of albums?&nbsp; I also would like to suggest a possibility of not using folder.jpg as it is a windows standard file and you never know what ms will do with it. My suggestion would be to allow for a MPAlbum.jpg (or MPAlbum.tbn) instead. Another option I would like to have is a MPArtist.jpg to be placed in the Artist directory. Which would make it possible to browse artists in a similar way as brwosing artists.Thanks&nbsp; Ben</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ben, post: 101726, member: 19473"] I have a lot (~9000albums) . After scan I found that going to Albums is very slow. Also most pictures were plainly wrong, checked the directories and found lots of wrong pictures in folder.jpg files. Also many albums may have incorrect or no tags. But I am using the same directory with the albums from another PC with WMP V11., and there most albums are OK. I have been reading several posts here about how MP gets its pictures. Is there somewhere an exact description? I want to start a new directory with my MP3's that is specially for mediaportal as WMP continously updates info in the directory. If I have a directory structure like: Music Artistname Year - Albumname 01 - title.mp3 02 - title.mp3 ..... Year - Albumname Artistname etc. Is there a way that it will only use the directory/filenames for filling the database? And can I specify the convention I use for the Albumname, Year. Title and track number such that it will use that for filling the database? I would like to start from scratch, how to I remove the current data from the database without a complete reinstall? I removed the folder.jpg option in setup and rescanned, but still many problems. I then found an option with MP itself to rebuild the music database. But when that one was finished there appeared to be nothing in my database. So I rescanned using mediaportal setup. Is the rebuild in mp itself the way to 'clean' the database? Going back from an 'inside' album view to albums view is very slow, probably due to the number of albums? I also would like to suggest a possibility of not using folder.jpg as it is a windows standard file and you never know what ms will do with it. My suggestion would be to allow for a MPAlbum.jpg (or MPAlbum.tbn) instead. Another option I would like to have is a MPArtist.jpg to be placed in the Artist directory. Which would make it possible to browse artists in a similar way as brwosing artists. Thanks Ben [/QUOTE]

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