Problem with search engine

I have my tracks organised into three directories: Audio, Video & Karaoke. I buy new tracks as they are released in both audio format (for discos) and karaoke format (i.e. instrumental)

I regularly have the same song in both audio and in karaoke versions, for example:
(in my "Karaoke" folder) "Christina Aguilera - Candyman.mp3" & "Christina Aguilera - Candyman.cdg", and also
(Audio folder) "Christina Aguilera - Candyman.mp3"

The problem I've discovered is that Deejaysystem won't find two identically named mp3 songs in different directories, it simply picks the first one it finds and doesn't show any further instances of it in the search window. As a result, when I search for a chart song, only the karaoke track or the audio track shows up, not both.

I can work around this, either by renaming the two mp3s with (aud) & (kar) included in the filename, or by searching in windows explorer & dragging the desired file across. -But could this problem be fixed for a future release of DJS?

Edited by Alan Ross

Clubdjpro resolve this problem by showing an icon (Speaker/TV screen/Microphone) to show if the selected track is audio, video or karaoke. Presumably the routine to select & display an icon is similar to the one you use to detect an identically named CDG file!

No, if you take away the mp3 file, it doesn't show anything at all.

The CDG file can't be loaded or dragged on: Unrecognised format,
which is why I figured the identification method was the same.

However - on further testing I've noted that the Mic,TV & Speaker icons simply assist in showing the user the file format: Identical filenames in different directories are still overwriting each other the same as in DJS. 

I think that storing the entire path is not appropiate. One tipically organize his library by creating folders and moving songs to the appropiate folders. Moreover, if the songs are stored in a removable media (i.e. a USB drive) then the drive letter may change when the drive is connected. Even a removable drive could be mounted as a folder in an existing drive!

A better solution would be probably to detect the mp3 track as karaoke and create a specific entry for it in the database. The player should be able to assume that the same file name may be duplicated in the playlist as long as each instance belongs to a different category (audio / karaoke).

This is a very interesting point. I'm adding it to the development document for the future major version, in which we plan to re-design the playlist and database modules. Of course, using a visual "type" indicator such as color and/or icon is already planned.

Thank you!

I am thinking about video music files.   To my knowledge, they do not have track tag information.  So today any information we want to search for has to be in the file name.  But if the search engine would also search the path, we could put the songs in a search able folder.  Example, I store a song in a "Rock" folder for genre.  The search engine would find all songs in the "Rock" folder.  But would show only the file name in the results window. 

Hi Joe, I already use the Artist-title-comment.avi format & it works well. But with 7000 karaoke tracks to rename, i was sniffing around for an easier "fix". As it stands, I rename the files whenever I encounter an identical filename in a different folder because DJS will show only one file. The result is that I should rename all my files with comments, i.e. Audio, Video and Karaoke, which will take ages.

This also results in DJS searches reporting unplayable "ghost" files (their filenames prior to the addition of the comment), until I have the opportunity to wipe & re-write the database. I'm finding that Xvid and Divx files can take about 3 seconds each to register when added to the database, which can be a nightmare with 6,000 divx karaoke files! re-writing the database can take several hours!

Edited by Alan Ross