Error parsing playlist

[discman92651]

Everything works great, but my playlists (static and smart) do not seem to be updating from iTunes to Firefly. In the Firefly Server log, I am seeing the following error mesages:

2007-01-16 10:47:21 (9939e4c0): Error parsing playlist: Offset 1: Expecting field name

2007-01-16 10:47:21 (9939e4c0): Playlist 7532136 bad syntax2007-01-16 10:47:27 (9939e4c0): Scanned 19068 songs (was 19068) in 119 seconds

Can you please point me in the right direction?

Thanks!!

[rpedde]

@discman92651 wrote:

Everything works great, but my playlists (static and smart) do not seem to be updating from iTunes to Firefly. In the Firefly Server log, I am seeing the following error mesages:

2007-01-16 10:47:21 (9939e4c0): Error parsing playlist: Offset 1: Expecting field name

2007-01-16 10:47:21 (9939e4c0): Playlist 7532136 bad syntax2007-01-16 10:47:27 (9939e4c0): Scanned 19068 songs (was 19068) in 119 seconds

Can you please point me in the right direction?

Thanks!!

I think you have a fairly old version of firefly. The error is a superfluous one, and should have been fixed some time ago.

As for why it doesn’t see your iTunes playlists, it’s one of two things:

1. You don’t have your “my Music” (or wherever you have your iTunes Music Library.xml file) in your music path

or

2. You don’t have “Process m3u” set to “Yes” in the web config.

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[discman92651]

I just loaded up the latest Firefly…..svn1359 and get the same result as follows:

2007-01-16 14:46:33 (9939e4c0): Error parsing playlist: Offset 1: Expecting field name
2007-01-16 14:46:33 (9939e4c0): Playlist 7528072 bad syntax2007-01-16 14:46:39 (9939e4c0): Scanned 19068 songs (was 19068) in 75 seconds

I do have the config set properly as far as where the files are located and it has always been set to Process m3u to yes………

To be specific, I have the system pointed to D:Davids MusiciTunes. In this case, inside the iTunes folder is the library.xml as well another folder inside of which contains all the music in my collection…..so the top of the tree is the iTunes folder and both the xml and all mp3 etc files are under this one folder…..that worked before (a few months ago) and I have never changed it.

Based on the error message above, I thought perhaps there is one character of syntax that is causing it to bomb along the way…..

Help!!!!

Thanks,

David.

[rpedde]

@discman92651 wrote:

I just loaded up the latest Firefly…..svn1359 and get the same result as follows:

There are newer versions here, but it may be something as simple as a corrupt database.

It might be worth stopping the server, moving the songs.db from c:program filesfirefly media server to something else (songs.db.old, maybe?), then restarting the server.

If that does it, I would be interested in seeing the “songs.db.old”.

Based on the error message above, I thought perhaps there is one character of syntax that is causing it to bomb along the way…..

It might be, but that error should be both erroneous and have no side effects. But if it really is breaking it, that’s why I’d like to see the database.

Do let me know if that fixes it.

Thanks.

— Ron

[discman92651]

Ron:

In looking closer at it I realized that while there is indeed a iTuneslibrary.xml file in the folder I was pointing to, it appears that when I recently updated iTunes to the latest version, it seemed to abandon that xml file and created a new one back in the My Music/iTunes folder which had previously not existed. So basically it was properly syncing to the xml file…..just the wrong one.

Thanks for your help on this…….is that known issue with iTunes upgrades? I have moved my music outside of the traditional My Music folder structure and I guess iTunes automatically overrides it?

David.

[rpedde]

@discman92651 wrote:

Thanks for your help on this…….is that known issue with iTunes upgrades? I have moved my music outside of the traditional My Music folder structure and I guess iTunes automatically overrides it?

I had heard it before. Perhaps it would make sense to use more defensive efforts to try and avoid that.

It was in a folder called something like “iTunes Backup” or “Previous iTunes Libraries” or something, wasn’t it? Maybe I can just ignore that directory.
— Ron

[discman92651]

There was a new folder called Previous iTunes libraries there…..but that is not where it copied my old one to……..it actually took my old xml file which was in D:Davids MusiciTunes, copied it to C:….My MusiciTunes and now treated the new file as the master file….basically copying, then abandoning, the xml file that I had originally pointed Firefly to.

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