[PROBLEM] Library update in progress message

[Tim Curtis]

@Tim Curtis
Couldn't it be helpful to have (e.album_artist || e.artist || "missing tags") solve the issue for those "poorly tagged files"? As IMHO both tags are missing, resulting in undefined.toLowerCase() which of course does not exist...

Probably, but just displaying "missing tags" without identifying the file and logging it during Library update would not be helpful. Could be a good project for an interested dev but its not a trivial effort.

In any case over the years I've added code to handle certain file or tag issues but decided that its not worth adding a lot of extra code if the basic tags like Artist, Album, Title are missing. After all this isn't the 90's where tagging was done by embedding in the file names and directory structure :-0

IIRC players like Foobar are coded to better handle this type of collection.

ETA: Also, another good project for an interested dev would be to write a collection scanner that identified problematic tracks. It's not a trivial effort of course but it would a very useful utility. I suppose it raises the question of whether utilities already exist to scan collections. Surely they must.