Unusual database problem - songs omitted in build

[realnobrainer]

I am using a Nano (latest build and all that jazz - currently 17705) and there are songs being omitted in the database build process. They are all present in the filesystem, but are not included in the database. Oddly, they seem to have a tendency to be songs 2, 3 or 10 - and this only occurs on music I have been adding over the past three weeks. Older songs are fine, all present. I tried wiping all of the *.tcd files, as:

Hi,

if the disk check reveals no errors you could also try the following:
Delete all *.tcd files from the .rockbox directory on your player before initializing the Database.
Normally the Rockbox shouldn't care if these files are present or not when initializing the Database, but sometimes it helps to delete those files when there are problems with initializing.

It's very annoying not being able to listen to certain songs (and statistically, 2,3 and 10 seem to be some of the best songs on their albums...) Any ideas?

[MarcGuay]

Are they tagged properly?  Do they contain embedded album art?  Are any of the tags exceptionally long?

[realnobrainer]

All tagged as they were by Sound Juicer on Kubuntu. So Artist, Album, Track Title, Genre, usually Year... all I would assume matter to the databasing. None are especially odd - examples of skipped tracks are "The Subways - Holiday - Young for Eternity" and "Be Your Own Pet - Becky - Get Awkward". Neither seem overlong, or have peculiar characters in.

None of the albums I am having this issue with have album art attached. The only one I did add art to is fine (and to clarify, does it count as embedded when if it's just cover.bmp in the same folder? I thought embedded would be coded into a file, or something like that).

[wintermute23]

"Embedded" refers to the album art being inside a tag in the file. Rockbox doesn't do anything with such embedded art, but other media players often do.

From a 30-second Google search, it doesn't look like Sound Juicer adds album art, but you may want to check that with someone who actually knows.

[MarcGuay]

Searching the forums for "database songs missing" gets a lot of hits, you might want to try sifting through those for your answer.

[realnobrainer]

It does indeed seem to be a tagging issue. When viewed through the file browser, the only properties of the 'missing' tracks are path, filename, size, date and time added. All the tags usually present are missing in the fileview, but are present in the original files in my home directory. Perhaps this is a problem with synching via Amarok?

Sound juicer does not embed album art, if that's still relevant.

[robin0800]

Are any of the missing Database Files appearing as untagged?
If so that's your answer. They were there just not where you expected.