Kevin Pearsall suggested I post this from an email thread:

It is an absolutely 100% correlation that it’s these tracks with
filenames containing certain special characters that are causing the
problem. I can post a log if that would be helpful - tell me where to
do that.

By the way, another potentially useful piece of information: several of
these tracks are things that I recall hearing played by an earlier
version of the SlimServer software. So it does seem to be a problem
with the beta, and that the original “freezing up” problem that I first
started tracking several weeks ago with 6.0.2 was a different problem,
that appears to have been fixed in the beta. That was also different in
that it would hang the machine, whereas these tracks that hang with
special characters as the reason come “unstuck” when I click on Skip. 

Note that when the special character causing the problem is in the
album name, then *none* of the cuts in that album show up in the
SlimServer library (that is, they are all blank entries). All the
tracks in “107 degrees in the shade,” for example. 

My theory about the cause is that there’s some string-handling function
in the code that has a restricted view of what characters are legal to
appear in a filename, which is more restrictive than is actually
supported by the Windows and Mac filesystems. An earlier version of the
code worked fine, so there’s no reason it can’t be made to work again…


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MikeGilpin
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