Boxee won't index my M4A files?

[zapnap]

I set up Boxee on my Apple TV the other day and created a network share pointed to the iTunes folder on my NAS. It eventually finished discovering the artists there, but out of the hundreds of artists in my catalog it only found 5. Turns out those 5 are artists for whom I have media files in MP3 format. The rest are all M4A.

What's strange is that I can play the M4A files just fine through browse mode. But Boxee refuses to index them. What can I do? Thanks .

Btw, I found this similar thread in one of the other forums -- http://forum.boxee.tv/showthread.php?t=3353 -- but there's really no answer to the question posed.

[marcel]

Can you try and manually add some to see if that works..Have you left boxee parked as it indexes in the background..

[zapnap]

How should I go about manually adding artists/albums? Sorry, still a bit of a noob. And yes, I've left Boxee idle ("parked"?) overnight for two nights now. It seems as though it has indexed all the artists with MP3 files in my collection, but none of the M4As which make up the bulk of my iTunes library.

[marcel]

select the file choose info >wrong album?

[zapnap]

I'm assuming you mean select the file and use 'recognize' and then manually input the album title and artist? (there's no 'wrong album' option if the file in browse hasn't already been marked as part of an album). I tried this and it works fine, the new artist/album shows up in Boxee's list. Rockin, thanks.

I have hundreds of artists in my collection, though... There's no way I can do this for each and every one of them. Any ideas on what's wrong so that I can get it to auto-detect them?

Thanks so much for your help.

[redalert007]

Hi,
I have a similar setup...Boxee and iTunes folder on a NAS Drive (Western Digital NAS).

Can you check the permissions on the NAS iTunes folder?

For adding files, I always do first this:
chown -Rv user.user *
chmod -Rv 755 *

Then, everything works Ok. Movie and music files get indexed.

Be carefull with the commands...just run that on the iTunes NAS folder.
The user.user refered, is the user that you have on your ATV.

regards

[zapnap]

The M4A files are world-readable; same exact permissions as the MP3 files that are getting indexed appropriately.

[zapnap]

Hoping someone @ Boxee can help me out here... Or at least tell me what info they could use from me to reproduce the issue and improve!

[zapnap]

.......... bump