Before the fix is in you could do one of the following in the Web admin 'media files sync' page:

1.  find the album and '[ Edit attributes for all files in directory ]'.  scroll down to 'Add attribute' set it to album, check the box 'Replace existing attributes of this type?'.  then retype the album name and then press the 'Add' button.  now they will all show up as one album

2.  find the album and select the first song.  on the song page press 'edit' that is associated with the 'album' attribute.  on the 'Attribute' page just press the 'update' button.  the system will tell you that there is another Attribute with the same name, would you like to merge them.  Answer Yes.  the attributes will be merged.  I am not sure here if you can just keep pressing update or you have to do it for every file in the album but try it.

1 is the quickest

Jason

It has worked for me so far, I haven't rebooted yet or tried the script

Funny that, my XDA IIi works really well as an orbiter as long as you don't try to switch applications, then it gets a bit confused.  As long as you only use it as an orbiter the XDA IIi works really well.

I was going to buy some old ones from Ebay for about £25 each, then mount them in wooden frames and mount them on the wall at the entrances of my house for turning the security system off (and starting my favorite album) :-)

OK, that makes sense.

When Andrew says 'ssh into the core' I was running it from a console session on the core so I didn't need to do 'ssh linuxmce@dcerouter'.  I didn't realize that at the time.

Anyway, would the script look something like this:

#!/bin/bash
screen -S keep_drives_mounted
cd /home/public/data/videos/[drive1]
Ctrl-a c
cd /home/public/data/videos/[drive2]
Ctrl-a c
cd /home/public/data/videos/[drive3]
Ctrl-a d
screen -r 13022.keep_drives_mounted

I will then save it as 'keep_drives_mounted.sh' (is that the corrrect extention) in /etc/rc.d

'chmod +x keep_drives_mounted.sh'

to make it executable, then

'update-rc.d keep_drives_mounted defaults'

Does this look OK?

Thanks,
Jason

So, (remember I am new to Linux)

I was trying to get my head around how this works.

I think I have got it but correct me if I am wrong:

The 'screen' command allows you to remotely log in to the core.  I open a session on each of the drives so that these drives cannot unmount because they are in use.

This probably means I don't have to cd into the ..../Audio as well as the ..../Video directory of each drive, is that correct?

I am looking at writing this script but I have read some articles that say I would have to enter the root password manually, is there a way to add it to the script or not need it?

Thanks
Jason
 

that seems to have worked - Thanks Andrew!!

I have been banging my head agaist the wall with that one for sometime.

I will have to make a script that runs at boot, any pointers on how to go about that?

Not only are my Linux skills lacking but I can't read either, Thanks Collin

I will let you know how I get on

Thanks Andrew, as you may know my Linux skills are severely lacking.

I opened a konsole window and typed 'ssh linuxmce@dcerouter'

typed in the root password

typed the command 'session -S keep_drives_mounted'

I recieved an error message of no such command or something like that

I typed 'cd /home/public/data/videos' because I didn't know what the drive was called

am I going in the right direction so far?

I have a Hybrid Core with 3 HDD's:

200 Gb IDE drive with the OS on it and a small amount of media
450 GB SATA drive with 200 GB of Video on it
1 TB SATA drive with 770 Gb of Video and Audio on it

with the core alone working, all media is visible on the orbiters.

If I boot up any one of my two MD's (a Dell D620 with Gigabit Broadcom NIC or an Athlon XP 2600 desktop machine with 100 Mbit NIC) and then access some of the media, after an amount of time the list of media changes and only a few files are visible, some on the 200 GB drive and one or two on the 1TB machine (Thom's 'using media in LinuxMCE' weirdly and an REM album).  After this I have to reboot to get it back.  before the reboot I can go into the KDE desktop and use dolphin and access the media from there on the core.

Any ideas why this is happening and what I can do to get around it?

I am not sure if it is the same problem but you may want to read the following post:

http://forum.linuxmce.org/index.php?topic=6074.0

I can't get my MCE remote to work and rodercot suggested it doesn't work.  Maybe you are in the same boat

Could this be a similar problem that some are seeing with the w32codecs being missing?

http://forum.linuxmce.org/index.php?topic=7493.0

I am negotiating with suppliers for further products, as soon as we have something I will post it on here

Thanks,
Techstyle

In 2006 my DVD player died and I had an excuse to build a machine to go in my Living room connected to a LG LCD Screen and my Pioneer Reciever.  I wanted to be able to watch/listen to media I had, until that point, dotted around the various machines on the Network.  I installed Windows MCE 2005 but it didn't really live upto my expectations - Problems with codecs and multiroom ability.  First I learned to live with it and then I wanted to expand to Automation to run some X10 stuff.  I installed a trial of MControl for Win MCE which worked well but I continued to research alternatives and then I stumbled upon LMCE in middle of 2008.

I downloaded the latest Beta of 7.10 and installed on my living room PC, I had some old hardware around me so built a MD for the bedroom and a PDA as a roaming orbiter.  I added the X-10 stuff, more HDD for media (my DVD collection), about 200ft of CAT5E cable, I have ordered 2 gigabit switches ($25.99 on amazon at the mo).  

Are you sure Collin?  I just did a re-install and have the same problem:

I tried using add software and then with console and this was the result:

linuxmce@dcerouter:~$ sudo apt-get install w32codecs
[sudo] password for linuxmce:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package w32codecs is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package w32codecs has no installation candidate

So you have your remote, but sometimes when looking at youtube or bringing up kde you need more than cursor movement and mouse clicks.  You need to type in search names etc.

So what are people currently using in the USA, wireless/infra-red keyboard with mouse/trackball that works well with linuxmce.

Thanks...Martin

I use a couple of different methods for keyboard:

1.  I have an RF keyboard, it pluged into the PS2 keyboard port.  it works OK but is a little big.
2.  I use a laptop with the Windows Orbiter on it, as Thom said, you can use the orbiter keyboard - but I don't think you can use this in the KDE desktop environment. (correct me if I am wrong Thom)

For mouse I use:

1.  The laptop orbiter (there is a mouse contol pad)
2.   I use an RF handheld trackball mouse, I need to map some of the extra keys.  it is one that you can use for presentations so it has pg up and pg down which can be used in UI2 to turn over the media pages.