07-27-2020, 04:42 PM
@jonners
I can't explain your specific numbers without seeing the details of your entire collection, but there's nothing to guarantee the two counts will be the same.
Tim already gave it away with his comment "The 2617 figure represents the number of directories scanned by the Thumbnail generator. The 1480 figure listed in Tag view represents the number of albums that MPD was able to index."
The thumbnail generator is counting the number of file directories it found to be containing tracks. IIRC, MPD is counting the number of unique strings it found in the album field of the tags of the tracks as it indexed them.
In my own case, my library is a hodge-podge collection of tracks, some carefully tagged, some incorrectly or inconsistently tagged, some untagged, and all approximately sorted into directories. When scanned by moOde, I get the counts:
Music collection: 653 albums
Albums processed: 908
Perhaps we should be labeling the thumbnail generator report "Directories processed" or "Album directories processed". I think the former is more correct since it's perfectly possible to have directories containing tracks which come from no album.
Now that you've got my attention on this, though, I want to look more closely. It never bothered me that my counts were mismatched so I never checked that both counts were actually correct according to their respective algorithms. They should be, but ....
Regards,
Kent
I can't explain your specific numbers without seeing the details of your entire collection, but there's nothing to guarantee the two counts will be the same.
Tim already gave it away with his comment "The 2617 figure represents the number of directories scanned by the Thumbnail generator. The 1480 figure listed in Tag view represents the number of albums that MPD was able to index."
The thumbnail generator is counting the number of file directories it found to be containing tracks. IIRC, MPD is counting the number of unique strings it found in the album field of the tags of the tracks as it indexed them.
In my own case, my library is a hodge-podge collection of tracks, some carefully tagged, some incorrectly or inconsistently tagged, some untagged, and all approximately sorted into directories. When scanned by moOde, I get the counts:
Music collection: 653 albums
Albums processed: 908
Perhaps we should be labeling the thumbnail generator report "Directories processed" or "Album directories processed". I think the former is more correct since it's perfectly possible to have directories containing tracks which come from no album.
Now that you've got my attention on this, though, I want to look more closely. It never bothered me that my counts were mismatched so I never checked that both counts were actually correct according to their respective algorithms. They should be, but ....
Regards,
Kent
