Scanning the music server, how to wipe database and start fresh?

[iPete]

I have 2 Pro plus devices connected via Ethernet to a Qnap running Qmusic as its music server. When I access my music and look for playlists stored on the qnap the device lists thousands of duplicate entries for each song. Some songs have as many as a 10 or 20 entries. Many m3u album playlists are empty with 0 tracks in them. I think every time I’ve scanned the music folder on the NAS from the menu in the WiiM app it has added yet another copy and never deleted the old database. How do I force it to forget everything and make a clean new scan? I tried doing this from the NAS by reindexing in the qnaps multimedia console but I think this has confused the WiiM even more. Do I need to factory reset the WiiM? How? I’ve reinstalled the WiiM app in IOS but it’s just the same. Where is the Wiims copy the database?

 

[Aquaman]

Hi @iPete ,

other than in my initial statement I now find Minim a very useful server. I reinstalled it for the test of compatability issues with some other equipment. So I revise my previous verdict. Minim is a good choice.

As for your questions:

If you are not using playlists, I would simply and rigorously delete all m3u files. They are the ones that show up as playlists in the server, with or without content.

If those playlists also contain your favorites, I‘m afraid I can‘t help you on how to manage this. If worse comes to worst your ratings will be lost.

No, there is no front end to UPnP servers. If you want to manage your music library competently you should install Foobar2000 on your PC. This will give you ALL the possibilities.+.

 

[simbun]

Q1. What do I need to do to? I don’t really care about playlist for each album. If I want to play an album in full I’ll just use folder mode navigate to the folder and hit play now. I do want to build my own playlists however and be able to find them without having to scroll through hundreds of automatically produced but useless empty playlists.

If playlists appear in MinimServer's [n playlists] index then you must have *.m3u/*.m3u8 files located somewhere under the content directory.

If you haven't done so already install MinimWatch on your desktop as it allows you to configure a remote MinimServer instance and view the log from a scan (MinimWatch > Show Log). Check the log first for any errors/warnings, then change the Logging level to Verbose and perform another rescan which will list any playlists encountered (towards the end of the log).

Q2. I have favourite ratings made via Qmusic. Music tracks are rated 1* to 5*. Qmusic generates playlists based on ratings. For example I can make a playlist of all 4* or 5* tracks with Genre “HD” between years 1990 and 2000. It will find any music that I added the labelled “HD” to the Genre and produce a list I can either play now or select from to add to another/new playlist. And they are updated as music is added or ratings changed. Can I transfer these said playlists into Minim or must I recreate them? Can minim do this?

Whilst control points (WiiM Home app/BubbleUPnP etc) can store user ratings (held in app) they're not supported by UPnP, so they're not written back to the server. If ratings are important to you then you'll likely need to look elsewhere e.g. QMusic/Symfonium/PlexAmp/Lyrion.

 

[Aquaman]

If you haven't done so already install MinimWatch on your desktop as it allows you to configure a remote MinimServer instance and view the log from a scan (MinimWatch > Show Log). Check the log first for any errors/warnings, then change the Logging level to Verbose and perform another rescan which will list any playlists encountered (towards the end of the log).

… or simply search for ‚*.m3u‘ in the library directory with Windows explorer and delete directly. A little prosaic but effective and no hassle.

 

[simbun]

… or simply search for ‚*.m3u‘ in the library directory with Windows explorer and delete directly. A little prosaic but effective and no hassle.

It sounds like they've already renamed the playlists to .bak.
With no knowledge of QNAP I'm assuming some trash or backup folder is being indexed.

Either way, checking the log is always a good idea.