Problem streaming certain songs of the collection

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  • 06/07/2006 at 2:22 PM #416
    svizi
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    Hi,

    I am trying to figure out what’s going on and mt-daapd can’t stream certain songs under certain circumstances. Here are the facts :

    1. All my songs are mp3.
    2. All of the songs are id-tagged properly if that matters.
    3. I had two songs which i had into a one – depth folder at my mp3 collection. They worked properly. Then I put them into a two – depth folder and itunes couldn’t play them ( they had a little icon something like info at the left of them and the didn’t begin to play ). I drag them back out of the folder and they played.
    4. I also have a song in a folder that doesn’t play but all the other on the same folder play.
    5. I use samba in order to move my songs over to my linux machine.

    If anyone has something to share with me please post because this is a kind of annoying.

    07/07/2006 at 6:34 AM #5441
    wilson_chan0913
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    I faced the same issue as you too. If i moved the song out the folder which it is failed to play, then it can be played properly.

    07/07/2006 at 6:54 AM #5442
    fizze
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    Songs are indexed by inode. So if you move a file the inode wont change, but the actual song location.
    To fix this, you gotta force a rescan of the DB, or even delete the db and start over. *shrugs*

    A “fix” for this is not due before 1.0 however.

    07/07/2006 at 7:59 AM #5443
    svizi
    Guest

    So it’s a matter of previous report to a certain song. If you move it to another location the i-node won’t change? The db believes that the song can be found at the certain location but it doesn’t?

    07/07/2006 at 9:07 AM #5444
    rpedde
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    @svizi wrote:

    So it’s a matter of previous report to a certain song. If you move it to another location the i-node won’t change? The db believes that the song can be found at the certain location but it doesn’t?

    Yeah, mt-daapd thinks its still at the old path, so when it tries to stream it, it can’t find it.

    Short answer: delete the songs.gdb, and restart the server.

    07/07/2006 at 2:12 PM #5445
    svizi
    Guest

    Where can i find songs.gdb?

    07/07/2006 at 9:17 PM #5446
    rpedde
    Participant

    @svizi wrote:

    Where can i find songs.gdb?

    In the db_dir in your config file. Probably /var/cache/mt-daapd.

    — Ron

    24/12/2006 at 9:05 AM #5447
    ftgy
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    I have the same problem. If you move the song out of the mt-daapd folder and update the database (I know it works if you do it manually, and I assume it would if it updated automatically), then put the file back, it will work and you don’t have to delete-database/restart.

    This is a really silly problem that should definitely be fixed.

    24/12/2006 at 5:20 PM #5448
    rpedde
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    @ftgy wrote:

    I have the same problem. If you move the song out of the mt-daapd folder and update the database (I know it works if you do it manually, and I assume it would if it updated automatically), then put the file back, it will work and you don’t have to delete-database/restart.

    This is a really silly problem that should definitely be fixed.

    The fix is to run nightlies. I’m not updating the 0.2.x codebase anymore.

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