Pinnacle Soundbridge Help

[Anonymous]

I have just bought a Soundbridge and got it connected to my network, it connects to my FireFly server and finds all my songs. When I try to play a song it says “Unable to play”

I have now noticed that my iTunes can still see the server and all the tracks but I can not play them. Every time I press play on the soundbridge, iTunes or FirePlay it counts as a song served but no music.

Any help will be greatly appreciated as no music is no good.

THanks
D

[EVILRipper]

This probably means firefly tries to send the song, but it is not found or cannot open it.
Have you by any chance moved the files, or gave them other permissions?
Try removing the database and/or doing a full rescan.

[Anonymous]

@EVILRipper wrote:

This probably means firefly tries to send the song, but it is not found or cannot open it.
Have you by any chance moved the files, or gave them other permissions?
Try removing the database and/or doing a full rescan.

I tried removing var/cache/mt-daapd/songs.db and then doing a full rescan but it didn’t create a new db file. I have not knowingly moved any files or permissions. This is an example of the log when I restart mt-daapd and try to play some songs from iTunes.

2008-07-17 21:03:58 (b7d1eb30): Starting web server from /usr/share/mt-daapd/admin-root on port 3689

2008-07-17 21:03:58 (b7d1eb30): Registering rendezvous names

2008-07-17 21:03:58 (b7d1eb30): Serving 3842 songs.  Startup complete in 3 seconds

2008-07-17 21:05:11 (b74d2b90): Unknown meta code: daap.songalbumartist

2008-07-17 21:05:11 (b74d2b90): Unknown meta code: com.apple.itunes.has-videodaap.songcategory

2008-07-17 21:05:11 (b74d2b90): Unknown meta code: daap.songextradata

2008-07-17 21:05:11 (b74d2b90): Unknown meta code: daap.songcontentdescription

2008-07-17 21:05:11 (b74d2b90): Unknown meta code: daap.songlongcontentdescription

2008-07-17 21:05:11 (b74d2b90): Unknown meta code: daap.songkeywords

2008-07-17 21:05:11 (b74d2b90): Unknown meta code: com.apple.itunes.is-podcast

2008-07-17 21:05:11 (b74d2b90): Unknown meta code: com.apple.itunes.mediakind

2008-07-17 21:05:11 (b74d2b90): Unknown meta code: com.apple.itunes.series-name

2008-07-17 21:05:11 (b74d2b90): Unknown meta code: com.apple.itunes.network-name

2008-07-17 21:05:11 (b74d2b90): Unknown meta code: com.apple.itunes.episode-num-str

2008-07-17 21:05:11 (b74d2b90): Unknown meta code: com.apple.itunes.episode-sort

2008-07-17 21:05:11 (b74d2b90): Unknown meta code: com.apple.itunes.season-num

2008-07-17 21:05:11 (b74d2b90): Unknown meta code: daap.songgapless

2008-07-17 21:05:11 (b74d2b90): Unknown meta code: com.apple.itunes.gapless-enc-del

2008-07-17 21:05:11 (b74d2b90): Unknown meta code: com.apple.itunes.gapless-heur

2008-07-17 21:05:11 (b74d2b90): Unknown meta code: com.apple.itunes.gapless-enc-dr

2008-07-17 21:05:11 (b74d2b90): Unknown meta code: com.apple.itunes.gapless-dur

2008-07-17 21:05:11 (b74d2b90): Unknown meta code: com.apple.itunes.gapless-resy

2008-07-17 21:05:12 (b74d2b90): Unknown meta code: com.apple.itunes.is-podcast-playlist

2008-07-17 21:05:12 (b74d2b90): Unknown meta code: com.apple.itunes.special-playlist

2008-07-17 21:05:16 (b6cc5b90): Thread 16: Error opening /HOME/SHARED/MUSIC/COMPILATIONS/ABOVE THE RIM/09 GONNA GIVE IT TO YA.MP3: No such file or directory

2008-07-17 21:05:16 (b6cc5b90): Thread 16: Entering ws_returnerror (404: Not found)

2008-07-17 21:05:32 (b6cc5b90): Thread 20: Error opening /HOME/SHARED/MUSIC/ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK/ADULTHOOD/13 LOOK WHAT YOU DONE.MP3: No such file or directory

2008-07-17 21:05:32 (b6cc5b90): Thread 20: Entering ws_returnerror (404: Not found)

2008-07-17 21:05:54 (b6cc5b90): Thread 25: Error opening /HOME/SHARED/MUSIC/ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK/ADULTHOOD/13 LOOK WHAT YOU DONE.MP3: No such file or directory

2008-07-17 21:05:54 (b6cc5b90): Thread 25: Entering ws_returnerror (404: Not found)

2008-07-17 21:11:12 (b6cc5b90): Thread 45: Error opening /HOME/SHARED/MUSIC/COMPILATIONS/ABOVE THE RIM/12 HOOCHIES NEED LOVE TOO.MP3: No such file or directory

2008-07-17 21:11:12 (b6cc5b90): Thread 45: Entering ws_returnerror (404: Not found)

2008-07-17 21:13:26 (b6cc5b90): Thread 47: Error opening /HOME/SHARED/MUSIC/METHOD MAN/4_21... THE DAY AFTER/12 GOT TO HAVE IT.MP3: No such file or directory

2008-07-17 21:13:26 (b6cc5b90): Thread 47: Entering ws_returnerror (404: Not found)

2008-07-17 21:13:40 (b6cc5b90): Thread 49: Error opening /HOME/SHARED/MUSIC/DMX/_..AND THEN THERE WAS X/01 THE KENNEL (SKIT).MP3: No such file or directory

2008-07-17 21:13:40 (b6cc5b90): Thread 49: Entering ws_returnerror (404: Not found)

2008-07-17 21:23:18 (b74d2b90): Thread 14:  could not read: No such file or directory

[EVILRipper]

Well the log file explicitly states the problem. It cannot find the files.
Linux is case sensitive, and for as far as I know, the /home/ dir is always lowercase. So there is no way it will be able to find the music.

Also, the dir says /home/shared/music
Shared, possibly from an external drive? Possibly this drive was removed or remounted with a different name?

Indeed, the db did not get recreated. Try shutting down firefly, removing the db, and restarting firefly. That should do the trick.
(Could take a while on restart, as firefly does a scan before running web adminpage)

[Anonymous]

The thing that threw me was it has been working fine for months. I have changed the config file to case sensitive YES and all is fine over the net, will try the SoundBridge tonight.

THanks for your help.
D

[EVILRipper]

Glad to help.
As the problem was caused server-side, any client should work.
I assume the soundbridge will work aswell. 🙂

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