AppleTV Synced Music

[lladnaar]

Sorry if this is a duplicate report, but I couldn't find it elsewhere.

The ATV stores it's local synced music in files called something like:
/mnt/Media/Media Files/F99/AQVE.mp3
/mnt/Media/Media Files/F99/AWWA.mp3
/mnt/Media/Media Files/F99/AYYH.mp3
...
These files are random songs from random albumns, and as far as I can see the directories imply no logical association of any kind.

I've had several attempts at adding /mnt/Media/Media Files as a source, with various source and library deletions along the way. So far I've always ended up with quite the mess. I've tried both automatic and manual discovery, and even just playing the music from the source option, and think I worked out what is going wrong.

When boxee scrapes these files it appears to pick up the metadata from the first file in the directory and locates the album details. It then assumes that the whole directory is songs from the same album, and creates a whole heap of mess. What it needs to do is inspect each file to determine the correct details to store in the library, as the file name and directories imply no useful details.

[agentlame]

the way atv syncs media is a complete joke, imho.

your best bet is to share the music directory on you computer, and use boxee to stream it.

boxee uses the file name and directory structure to decipher and recognize music, tv, and movies.

unfortunately, boxee does not read id3 tags, yet:
http://forum.boxee.tv/showthread.php?t=1130

[lladnaar]

the way atv syncs media is a complete joke, imho.

I could not agree more. iPods have the same junk storage technique.


unfortunately, boxee does not read id3 tags, yet:

I figured that it must be reading the id3, as described above it appears to get the album from the first file in each directory. Also if I play the random file names from the source listing, it displays the correct metadata for all tracks in the now playing details.

[marcel]

boxee does read the ID3 tags to verify the music in order to index it ..:)

[agentlame]

boxee does read the ID3 tags to verify the music in order to index it ..:)

my bad... thank you for the correction.

maybe a bug, then?

[marcel]

1 incorrect response out of 500 is not bad(better than me)..:) ..i send you the hug..

[lladnaar]

Is it likely that boxee will be altered to stop assuming that a folder is an album, or should I just give up trying to use synced files and copy my music manually into seperate album folders?

[rachelgreen]

boxee does read the ID3 tags to verify the music in order to index it ..:)

I agree with you