Updateing Media

[jfwi1]

I have about 1,300 albums on my Control4 system. I want to make a number of updates to the media meta data manually. For example:

A. The system loaded an album from a soundtrack. It randomly puts the artist from one of the tracks as the artist for the album, when in reality the album has various artists. I am changing the artist to Various.

B. The system categorized the genre as 'Children' on one album and 'Children's' on another, I am making it consistent.

C. Etc.

I am using composer HE to update the media meta data. It is taking me a long time. Every time I make one change in the meta data it states 'updating' and that can take 3-5 minutes. If I try to start making another edit the system tells me director is not responding. I have to wait until it is done with that change to make the next. Is there any easier way to make bulk updates?

[ILoveC4]

I have about 1,300 albums on my Control4 system. I want to make a number of updates to the media meta data manually. For example:

A. The system loaded an album from a soundtrack. It randomly puts the artist from one of the tracks as the artist for the album, when in reality the album has various artists. I am changing the artist to Various.

B. The system categorized the genre as 'Children' on one album and 'Children's' on another, I am making it consistent.

C. Etc.

I am using composer HE to update the media meta data. It is taking me a long time. Every time I make one change in the meta data it states 'updating' and that can take 3-5 minutes. If I try to start making another edit the system tells me director is not responding. I have to wait until it is done with that change to make the next. Is there any easier way to make bulk updates?

You have something strange going on. When I change metadata it only says "updating" for about 2 seconds. If it is an entire greatest hits album with 20+ songs it might take 4 or 5 seconds.

Where is the music stored? Is it on an old USB drive or something?

[jfwi1]

2-5 seconds would be reasonable. The music is stored on an HC-500 and a new USB drive (well new when the system was installed earlier this year). The USB drive is a 1TB Westenr Digital External Hard Drive.

Thanks for any advice, I love my system.

[jfwi1]

I just updated a genre from 'Alternative-Rock' to 'Alternative'. I timed it and took 3 minutes and 20 seconds. At 2:45 seconds it stated "Director is not responding to commands. Would you like to keep waiting for a response?". I clicked "yes".

I went to the tools menu and selected system diagnostics. The CPU usage appeared to be sitting around 8-35%. When I edited the 'Genre' it went to 80-90% for the 3 minutes and 20 seconds of updating.

Not sure if that means anything...just more data.

[xc420]

Check out this thread http://www.c4forums.com/viewtopic.php?id=1910 you need to make sure the USB drive is FAT32 and not NTFS.

[neil12011]

I can speak from experience on my own system. I started of with a 300 and a WD usb drive. It took forever to update media. That drive died unfortunately. I replaced it witha Buffalo NAS and it takes just a few seconds now for media to update. I think on the whole, you'll be more pleased with a good NAS anyway. I think the all around performance is better, not to mention you can access your content from any internet connection. Just my .02