Songs Not Found On Server

[rpedde]

@dovad wrote:

The plot thickens. I just ripped a new CD and that CD as well as Podcasts that downloaded in the past hour now show up in the library of Firefly (22 out of about 3500 files)! I rip my music and download Podcasts with an iMac using iTunes. I then use Chronosync to copy my music library including Podcasts to the Linkstation running Firefly. I double and triple checked the location of the music and Podcasts and old and new (from a half hour ago) are all in the same directory on the iMac!

This error:

2008-01-13 18:11:27 (3001f380): Found /mnt/share/mp3/iTunes

2008-01-13 18:11:27 (3001f380): Found iTunes.. recursing

2008-01-13 18:11:27 (3001f380): opendir: Permission denied

indicates that /mnt/share/mp3/iTunes isn’t readable by the server. Check the permissions on it — like as not, they are either missing the x permission, or they are not world readable.

What does “ls -lad /mnt/share/mp3/iTunes” show you?

— Ron

[dovad]

Ron,

As I type all my music is being successfully scanned. Most of my issues fall into the “pilot error” category and for that I apologize.

I entered “ls -lad” and the output now is:

drwxrwsr-x 157 nobody root 4096 Jan 14 03:47 /mnt/share/mp3

I ran the code that you posted further above to globally change permissions on the directories and files in my mp3 directory. By the way I did a Google search looking for commands to globally change permissions and could not find any so thanks! I thought that I was going to have to take a 2 week vacation and do file permission changes! Incidentally I deleted all the files on the Firefly server, resynced cleaning up the structure to have all the music in “/mnt/share/mp3” loosing the extra sub directories inside of mp3 (really just the iTunes directory inside mp3). I also “shared” the music directory in Leopard before resyncing with the hope that in the future when I rip a CD the permissions may be more conducive to the music server. I believe when I initially setup this LinkStation I may have been still using Tiger on the iMac and am wondering if the upgrade to Leopard changed my music’s permissions or how permissions were set by the OS going forward from the upgrade? Any thoughts on this possibility or how to insure that in the future all newly ripped music makes it through the scan process.

As always thanks a lot Ron! You are the best!

Dave

[Anonymous]

@rpedde wrote:

You could set permissions like that with something like:

foo@bar$ chgrp -R "someusergroup" /path/to/mp3dir

foo@bar$ find /path/to/mp3dir -type d -exec chmod 2775 {} ;

foo@bar$ find /path/to/mp3dir -type f -exec chmod 664 {} ;

— Ron

I had the same permissions problem and this worked beautifully. I finally have my server up and running like I want!

However, I would like to know a little more about these commands. I know they are probably pretty basic, but could you break this code down for me and tell me what each part does here? I want to understand this so I’ll be able to do it later on should this happen again somehow.

Thanks a lot!

(Just FYI: I have an old Dell running Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop edition, Firefly media server, FirePlay, AFP, netatalk, avahi, and hamachi. I access the music through iTunes on my mac running Leopard. So now I can not only see and listen to my server inside iTunes from anywhere with an internet connection, but I can add music to it easily through the finder!)

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