smart playlists not updating!

[dfsuther]

I have a bunch of smart playlists written to exclude recently played tunes. I seem to recall that they once worked (some months back); now, they never update. I always have the same tunes at the head of each of them.

I can play a dozen tunes on my Soundbridge. Disconnect, reconnect — same dozen tunes at the head of the list. Connect from one of my Macs. Same dozen tunes at the head of the list. I read a post either here or over at Roku’s fora that you have to reconnect to see playlist changes, so I tried connecting the soundbridge to a different server, then reconnecting to FireFly
. Same dozen tunes at the head of the list.

There must be some terribly obvious thing I’m doing wrong. What on earth is it?

[fizze]

First of all, what version of firefly are you running?
Second: How exactly did you set up your “smart” playlist?
Does it come from iTunes.XML ?
Did you specify it manually through firefly’s web-admin?

[dfsuther]

@fizze wrote:

First of all, what version of firefly are you running?
Second: How exactly did you set up your “smart” playlist?
Does it come from iTunes.XML ?
Did you specify it manually through firefly’s web-admin?

I’ll check the version when I get home.
I set up the smart playlist through firefly’s web-admin. It should be using firefly’s internal last-played date (whatever the proper name was).

When I get home I’ll copy the exact syntax of the playlist expression into a reply to this message.

[fizze]

That sure sould help. 🙂

In other news, feel free to check against:
http://trac.fireflymediaserver.org/wiki/SmartPlaylists

for all available date fields.

[dfsuther]

I originally used that very reference when writing the smart playlist expressions. Thanks for the pointer, though, as I had lost the URL and had only my tattered paper copy.

[dfsuther]

And here’s the actual information. I’m using Firefly version svn-1376. A sample smart playlist that doesn’t update is specified as:

genre includes "Jazz" AND time_played before 3 weeks before today

another is

genre includes "Classical" AND time_played before 5 weeks before today AND comment !includes "Holiday"

Neither of these playlists updates successfully.

I’d be perfectly happy to update to a different version of Firefly, or make whatever other changes y’all suggest, but I had some trouble figuring out which nightly would be be a better choice. 😕

[rpedde]

@dfsuther wrote:

And here’s the actual information. I’m using Firefly version svn-1376. A sample smart playlist that doesn’t update is specified as:

genre includes "Jazz" AND time_played before 3 weeks before today

another is

genre includes "Classical" AND time_played before 5 weeks before today AND comment !includes "Holiday"

Neither of these playlists updates successfully.

I’d be perfectly happy to update to a different version of Firefly, or make whatever other changes y’all suggest, but I had some trouble figuring out which nightly would be be a better choice. 😕

If those are transcoded files, that might be the problem. At some point, there was a fix for updating last played on transcoded files. Other than that, I’m not sure. If you have a particular song that you can identify, you can try playing the whole song at -d9, and watch for the “update play_count, last_played” query in the logs.

If you dont’ see it, that’s the culprit.

But I’m kind of thinking now that it might be the transcoding thing, if they are transcoded.

— Ron

[dfsuther]

Files are 160Kbps AAC files. I have plenty of files that get transcoded (from Apple Lossless), but these particular files aren’t.

Any suggestions of a reasonably-stable more-modern version to try?

[rpedde]

@dfsuther wrote:

Files are 160Kbps AAC files. I have plenty of files that get transcoded (from Apple Lossless), but these particular files aren’t.

Any suggestions of a reasonably-stable more-modern version to try?

1498 is stable, and recent nightlies seem stable. Between those two, not so much. 🙂

[dfsuther]

@rpedde wrote:

1498 is stable, and recent nightlies seem stable. Between those two, not so much. 🙂

I’ve finally downloaded and installed 1498. It fixes my problem completely.

Thanks for the advice.

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