Peter,
The following text was posted by me on November 12, 2009.

That is correct. The position of the DOT can be like abc.d   or  ab.cd  or  a.bcd! For example, a name like Beethoven Pianoconcerto No.1 is presentimg a problem (because of the No.1). If more than 1 such a name is in the result list, say 3, than all 3 albums are displayed with the artwork from the very 1st album in the result list (upper left corner).
Just try for yourself!

Just a hunch: could it be related to what we are looking at now?

Cheers,
Eric

I did spend quite some time trying to understand what is happening before I started this thread.
XXHE clearly distinguishes between folder names that contain at least one "-" character, and those that do not. Furthermore, names that contain a dot/numeric in the last 3 positions behave differently (??, a bug?). If a name starts with "Various", it is also handled differently.
So, many combinations with many results. Ready for a Decision Matrix approach. A nice challenge for Peter.
Hope this helps.

I will HTH until 0.9z-5-1 is available.
Cheers
Eric   

Hi Peter,
thanks for looking into this.

What I liked so much about the earlier version is that it was simple and quick.
When I selected all albums in my "Jazz" datafolder, XXHE would simply create the "Jazz" gallery, and the total underlying folder structure (my choice). It goes so fast that I never had a requirement to UNDO something. When something went wrong (e.g. tracknames too long or pathname too long), I would simply, delete the result, correct the problem and create the library again. All goes very fast. Take this as a compliment!      

For sure I can understand your ideas about the ideal structure, using various, how handle BOX etcetera. However, the way I organized my library is how I used to do it for over 40 years now. My music is organized in Categories like Jazz, Pop, World, etc. And also Audiophile is a category. The way I organize the subfolders very much depends on the catergory. For example, for Classical music, I define Opera, Pianoconcertos etc. And next comes the level of composer and so on. For Jazz or Pop music, this would look different. And within the subfolders, there are BOXes and Various.
Just go to a CD shop and you see a similar kind of ordering.

I believe that there is no "right" or "wrong" way of doing it. Everybody does it the way he/she feels comfortable with. For me it has been very helpful that the folder structure was respected, no matter how it looked like. For me, XXHE only has to look at the folder structure and copy it.

 :offtopic:A few years back, I asked you a question on this forum about avoiding duplicates in the Galleries view. Sticking to the previous example, the Eline album could appear in more than 1 gallery: "Audiophile", "Ladies" and "Nice Music". However, the effect of this approach would be that the album shows up several times in the (all) Galleries view. So, I decided to stop going that route. When you mentioned that you were considering a Database-like approach last week, this might really take it a step further IMHO.

Anyway, for now, I happily stick with the 0.9z-2 version (for library creation only!!!).   
 

Cheers,
Eric

Thanks Russs for this great idea!
It solves all my problems with the libraries when I want to add albums. Super!
BTW which XXHE version are you using for gallery creation?

Cheers,
Eric.

Peter,
the current implementation of the Library creation does not match with my setup (which I created with the same function). I believe it used to be different in the past (before the z-series?) because my whole library structure was created without any problem. So I guess something has changed in the way it works. E.g. I have this folder "Buddha-Bar Collection" containing the albums Buddha-Bar I, ... etc. Now if I add the latest album, XXHE creates a folder named "various" and puts it in there. So, if I want to get it right, I would need to rename most of my albums and folders. Especially classical albums are going to be disastrous.
So, please can you rollback the changes to the Library creation function? I hope it can be done.
Cheers,
Eric 

Peter,
here is an example that I created to show you when it goes wrong.

Top gallery folder name = "Galleries".
I create a subfolder name = "Nice Music".

I create a data folder name = "Nice Music"
I create a subfolder name = "(Various) STS Digital"
In this subfolder I put 2 albums:
name = "(Various) STS Digital - 9th Edition"
name =  "Eline - Marching In [STS] (2006)"

Now I am ready to create the gallery content. So I start XXHE and select my data folder. The 2 albums appear both. So I select them both, right click and Move selection to gallery, select. And I choose the Gallery subfolder name = "Nice Music".   

When I look at the result in the Gallery folder, I see the 2nd album moved up in the hierarchy. Not Good.

I can show you another example where XXHE is creating a subfolder named "various" out of the blue.

I hope this helps to understand and fix the problem.
Thanks!

Cheers, Eric.

Peter,
when I select all albums in a folder that also includes subfolders starting with "(Various)", and next I move selection to gallery in order to create a gallery from the folder, the result is a mess.
Could you please look into it and fix it?
Thanks.
Eric

All,
If you put the NOS1 DAC on small Cones, Spikes or what have you, it is much easier to keep a proper distance between Powercable, DVI cable and Line output cable.
In addition this could have a positive effect on the sound.

Cheers,
Eric

Peter,
as per your advice, I upgraded my Memory today from 4GB to 8GB.
This is the huge effect on the Maximum SFS:

m    MaxSFS = 508 (from 510)
mc  MaxSFS = 264 (from 184) !
sc   MaxSFS = 210 (from 12)  !!

Thanks,
Eric

Peter,
still experimenting, I disabled Paging (by settting the size of Virtual memory to =0) just to see what happens.
To my surprise .......I got the following results.

m:MaxSFS=511   (was 509)
mc:MaxSFS=107 ( was 68)
sc:MaxSFS=12    (was 12)

I am lost, but you will probable be able to understand and explain.
Cheers,
Eric.

Peter,
mobo is Gigabyte 965P-DS4 having 4 memory slots occupied by 4 x 1GB DDR2 (Kingston).
Any suggestions?

I use OctoFX-PeakExtnd-ArcPredict 352.8 playing a simple WAV track with the parameter settings as above. Volume=-6. 
#4 Engine; Adaptive 1024; No Appointment-Noting-RealTime; Q1=1; Q2=Q3=Q4=Q5=0.
That's it. The rest is a mystery (for me).

My sig is old because I DID remove RAMDisk completely. I will update it today.

Cheers,
Eric.

Peter,
I have determined the Max SFS for the 3 different memory options in my setup.
Other parameter settings are: CR=0.5ms;Wallpaper=OFF;KeepLAN=ON.

m:MaxSFS=509
mc:MaxSFS=68
sc:MaxSFS=12

So far I did not hear abnomalies, just superb high quality music reproduction.
Michaela defines the sound as "like velvet", which I interpret as very positive.

Next step would be lowering the SFS and compare.
After that I like to determine the effect of changing Other parameter settings.

Cheers,
Eric.

Peter, for sure it was 0.9z-4-1.
After reboot the problem was gone, so I cannot recreate it anymore.

BTW I did read the Release Notes (I always do). It says "When you're really ready to play maybe reboot for one time". So in my case the maybe in fact turned out to be needed. I wonder why the reboot is needed ot what is does.

Cheers,
Eric.

After a reboot the clicks have disappeared !!??

This XXHE version really has slam and pace! (better than ever)
Try Oscar Peterson: "You Look Good To Me" from the album "We Get Requests".
This is the best I have ever heard.........

Cheers,
Eric