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About 90% of my music plays fine without problems on XXHE. Usually such an album folder will have the following typical content:
01.wav (or 01.flac)
02,03,04,05 etc
album.cue
album.txt
album.jpg

But now and then, some albums won't play or even load at all, even though the music is in wav or flac format. So I suspect it is something to do with some other files that may or may not be in the same folder.

Are there any guidelines on what files should not be in an album folder, or moved to a separate sub-folder etc?

I could try and replay some problem albums to give you the error messages, there seem to be several different errors.

Paul

Hi Paul,

We could best start with you showing the contents of such a folder which does not want to play. Just make a screenshot of the contents and attach it here.

For now the best tip is to look up in the folder structure, whether there's also music files. So this won't be allowed :

Music\Jazz\01.Wav
Music\Jazz\Norah Jones\01.wav
Music\Jazz\Norah Jones\02.wav

This would be allowed though :

Music\Jazz\Ladies\Norah Jones\01.Wav
Music\Jazz\Norah Jones\01.wav
Music\Jazz\Norah Jones\02.wav

So the levels are not equal in the latter example, but this is fine.

This could be a typical error made :

Music\Jazz\Norah Jones\01.wav
Music\Jazz\Norah Jones\02.wav
Music\Jazz\Norah Jones\Coverart\folder.jpg
Music\Jazz\Norah Jones\Coverart\xx.wav

... this is the same situation as the first example, but goes less noticable.

It is not said that your albums don't play because of the structure. There can be more reasons.

Regards,
Peter

Peter,

Ok here are a couple of random ones. First the XXHE error messages and then the Explorer file contents screenshot:

Paul,

Hmm ... The second one is obvious (with its G:\CDImage in the Playlist) but the question is : how do you get that there. So what you show by means of Explorer looks fine to me but that is not what got selected for the Playlist.
Can you see that file existing in the root of G: perhaps ?

Then what I see wrong with the second one, is that the names do not comply to Cue File rules. Thus, you can name the large WAV CDImage.wav all right, but the Cue File must be named the same and it is not; instead it is named CDImage [WAV].cue although you'd need to switch on the showing of extensions to see it all well.

The first one is a bit more mysterious, but I see the two times " - " in the Album Title. This is not according the rules for that which ... and you now already see me make the mistake because of it (haha). Look :
Artist is Gabrielle Roth.
Album Name should be Audiophile Percussions with some unreadable text but *that* already containes 2x " - " which normally is used for Artist - Album Title separation.
Son't ask me what the system makes of that, but according to mu thinking "a mess" and it is my thinking what created the program. So, dangerous. :swoon".
So that structure should be something like :

Gabrielle Roth\Audiophile Percussions konnwhatever\[Track(s) here]
or
Gabrielle Roth - Audiophile Percussions konnwhatever\[Track(s) here]
or
Gabrielle Roth\Gabrielle Roth - Audiophile Percussions konnwhatever\[Track(s) here]
would also be allowed, but things may be strange here and there.
and :
Because there's also some deep down rule that the Cue File Name must be the same as the Album Name, you don't comply to that because of the extra " - " and the konnwhatever behind it, which is not in the Cue File Name.

For the "CDImage" other problem similar counts, but I don't thinkg it is the reason there that lets it fail. Still, that too is erroneous because of a 2x " - " (I only now see) plus that the structure in general could be wrong. It should be :

MyMusic\Rock\Eagles\[and then do what you like]
but officially can't be
MyMusic\The Eagles\[and then do what you like]
because you challenge for a \MyMusic\Rock\ elsewhere and it is out of balance. It will not fail on it, but *with* that you'd have the \Rock\ somewhere, The Eagles belong to nowhere (yeah, your MyMusic, but ...). Anyway it won't fail on this, until you do something like :

MyMusic\The Eagles - Hell Freezes over\

and this time because you don't comply to the two subfolders at least like :
MyMusic\Rock\
would be that, but your
MyMusic\The Eagles\Eagles - Hell Freezes over\
is just that too but coincidentally.

Dizzy ?
:)
Peter

Peter,

Thanks for your help, I've sorted those problem folders. Now for the others!

Paul