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[cosmicfx]

Hi

Last night I analysed My entire library, but this morning found that 28 files were still queued. I then ran Analyse Audio (with "skip analysed files" ticked) a couple of times, but the 28 files remain queued.
I checked and made sure that they are not in use , and they are not read only.
Does anyone have any idea why these files aren't analysed and why they remain queued?

Thanks
cosmic

[marko]

they're being Q'd because the there are zero values in the Peak Level and BPM fields. +51dB in the replay gain field looks quite wrong too.

What's special about these files? Are they incredibly short tracks, as in just a few seconds?
Do they play extremely quietly without replay gain?
Did you encode them yourself?
What file type are these files?
Are they on a local, or network drive?

-marko.

[cosmicfx]

Wow! Yes there does look like something extremely odd about those files now that you mention it.
I'll look into it.

Thanks Marko

[gappie]

That are silent tracks. as far as i can see. 51 dB is the standard value mc puts inthere. before it was 151 dB or something like that.
nothing wrong with them. that is what happens. a small warning though, when they are all from one record:

now this 51dB 
i was just listening to a list with random songs at a low volume, it is nearly one at night here, when suddenly one song jumped at eardeafening volume out of my speakers.
the song that did this is from an album with 86 tracks from which 72 or so are silent tracks from 6 seconds. and since i play with album based volume leveling the song came with a staggering boost from 40 something instead of the -14 it had before the silent tracks were analysed. ah well, hearing the girl from above stumbling again through the house means she survived it. 
i do not understand why the silent tracks need this 51dB, they are silent anyway and it makes the album gain less usefull.

thanks 

gab

[cosmicfx]

Interesting!!
But what's the point of these "silent tracks"?
I thought these may be corrupted files, but never had a chance to look into it yet. It's from a Nine Inch Nails album.

[gappie]

you should take a look at them, just to be sure. and there is one wich is not silent (-9.47 db).
the point.. well. from the record i referred to in the quote, all the silent tracks are one word, when you play it on a cd player you get a sentence on the display, it was a small joke.
i also have them on several miles davis boxes where they just gave a few seconds rest between songs, i think.
i deleted most of those files (after i checked where they were for) and renumbered the remaining tracks of the albums.

[cosmicfx]

Thanks Gappie! I'll defintely check it out.

cosmic

[BartMan01]

I have a playlist called 'Can't Analyze'.  Whenever I run across a track that can't be analyzed (mostly too-short or audio test tracks) I drop it in there.  Then I have my 'Needs Audio Analysis' smartlists ignore any tracks in that playlist.