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Bugs / Caching problem

« on: June 12, 2009, 22:38:16 »

v0.9.300   on Win2000

I think there is something severely wrong with the caching mechanism.
Or i  misunderstand how it is supposed to work.

After scanning a good portion of my collection,  the cache is at about 13000 entries.
I marked many of them .... perhaps about 300 as Ignores.
The rest I deleted either left or right.
I closed Similarity.

Now I just started Similarity again,   and start the scan without adding any new folders to the list.
And the  Cache size reads:   94

What is going on ?

What is worse, all the filepairs which I marked to Ignore are now showing up again, as this scan progresses.

Please  help !   This is nightmarish.    
I have 18000 more files to go ....  and if ignore does not work, I may have to find a tall building.  

Seb

32

Bugs / Status bar

« on: June 12, 2009, 22:26:20 »

v0.9.300
Cosmetic bug.

The status bar proclaims :  1 duplicate(s)
after I deleted the last duplicate pair from the Results list.
But the  Results   tab   is showing correctly Zero duplicate count (ie. nothing).
Seb

33

Bugs / Ignore very slow

« on: June 12, 2009, 22:15:34 »

v0.9.300

Sometimes (on average 1 in 3 invocations)  the Ignore is real slow on my machine (Quad3GHz  with Vista and 8G Ram), when you try to Ignore while it is still scanning for duplicates.
(it can take at times upto 18 seconds for the Ignored row to disappear)

Seb

34

News / Version 0.9 (build 300) released

« on: June 11, 2009, 20:57:43 »

Is there any chance you can add a:
'Ignore Marked...'
option to the Play/Browse/Ignore/...    context menu ?
(i find myself marking tones and tones of ignores)

35

News / Version 0.9 (build 300) released

« on: June 10, 2009, 18:08:05 »

The 'Folders' tab  is fantastic.

36

Wishlist / LeftRight vs. TopBottom Layout selector

« on: May 21, 2009, 18:10:53 »

One more tiny little suggestion ..... this one should be super quick to implement, since it is just a visual re-arrangement of already existing elements.

The way the bottom pane is arranged is what i think they call:   Left to Right
If at all possible can there be a switch so that the user selects if he wants to see that info pane in Left to Right   or    Top to Bottom    layout.

What is meant by that;

Left to Right
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx....Artist....yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx....Title.....yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.....File.....yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

Top to Bottom
Artist......xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
.............yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
Title.......xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
............ yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
File........xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
.............yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy


Reasoning:   When dealing with a very large collection, and going through hundreds of duplicates  it  becomes very tiring very quickly  to  visually jump Left<->Right  .....  this is particularly true when comparing long filename strings.

Hope very much  you can add that in the subsequent versions.

thnx
Seb

37

Wishlist / Font Size - UserAdjustable

« on: May 21, 2009, 17:58:17 »

Is there any way possible that you can make the Font Size, user selectable ?

The current font size, is what I consider Medium, and most of my full filenames get cut off (even at 1900x1200).

If I had a choice I would make the font of both the grid and the song detail display pane on the bottom  at least 2points smaller  (but I realize that other people have different visual prefferences).

See if that is something that can be implemented without huge effort.

Very appreciative.
Seb

38

General / Question: What happens when file is moved ?

« on: May 21, 2009, 17:47:18 »

Oh,  poop.    Cleaning the cache in 0.82 will get rid of my 600+ IGNOREs accumulated so far ......  right ?
The pain.   While you are working on the new caching mechanism/structure (http://www.music-similarity.com/forum/index.php?action=vthread&forum=2&topic=81) perhaps separate the IGNOREs out somehow, so that the user can Retain or Discard them when the base cache is wiped.    Best of all if there would be a small management sub-screen (add,modify,delete) for the IGNOREs ,  but that is I realize a wish-list item.
thnx again
Doing a great job.
I can not emphasize enough that this software is very appreciated, so I am more then happy to give feedback.
Seb

39

General / Question: What happens when file is moved ?

« on: May 21, 2009, 03:33:28 »

Let us consider this scenario:
After Similarity finishes 1st scan of the entire library we get this duplicate pair
  C:\folderA\song1.mp3
  C:\folderB\song2.mp3

it turns out that  song2.mp3  was really supposed to be in  C:\folderA
so i move it there with WinExplorer.

What happens when I run Similarity again (without clearing the cache) ?

Will Similarity remove C:\folderB\song2.mp3 from cache ?  and insert  C:\folderA\song2.mp3 ?

Seb

40

Bugs / Cache not updated on file Delete.

« on: May 21, 2009, 03:22:27 »

When I delete a file (within Similarity) while the program is still scanning the library, that file shows up in subsequent comparisons.  Meanwhile it should also be erased from the cache, so it does not show up as a duplicate ever again.
This became very evident with one of these files that compares at 100% with many many other files  (i think as pointed out by someone else ,  it is those files that Similarity is unable to decode properly,   ie. they do not play in WMP) ... the file just kept showing up again and again,  after I did Right-Side-Delete of it  several times (with Retry after the first time in Vista).
Seb

41

Wishlist / Built-in ID3 Tag Editing (Copy/Move)

« on: May 19, 2009, 18:40:23 »

Let me know if the mail(s) did not make it, if not I  will get it to you in a different way.

42

Bugs / Completely different MP3s match up.

« on: May 19, 2009, 18:39:20 »

Let me know if the mail(s) did not make it, if not I  will get it to you in a different way.

43

Wishlist / Built-in ID3 Tag Editing (Copy/Move)

« on: May 19, 2009, 18:25:33 »

MP3 file was sent over email.

Have look at what Similarity shows for  Artist for example.

Thank you very much.

S

44

Bugs / ID3 tags titles missing

« on: May 12, 2009, 23:43:24 »

you are correct ... my color depth was 16bit

i changed to 32 now ...  but there was some reason i did that,  can't remember why now.  

45

Bugs / Completely different MP3s match up.

« on: May 11, 2009, 16:21:02 »

Ok I am resending  in  1mb chunks ,  via a split RAR archive.

Thnx  very much.

S