Brian Ritchie Wrote:
> It's closed because it's considered a duplicate of another bug (2985),
> discussion of which seems to be active at the moment. The title of
> 2985 ("WMA VBR transcoded to WAV truncated") made me wonder whether I'm
> not seeing the problem because I'm not using VBR; but I am (for some
> tracks at least). However, as far as I can tell, my SB3 is playing the
> WMA natively, and WMA is not being transcoded to WAV (or anything else).
> I suppose it's another thing you could check. (web i/f: Server Settings
> / File Types, and check that "Windows Media - Windows Media -
> (built-in)" is checked. For what it's worth, mine has 4 entries for
> Windows Media (the others are to FLAC, MP3 and WAV) and all are
> checked. I think that's the default.)
>
>
> How did you play them? In WMP? Or did you try to play them in SS before
> re-scanning? I wonder what happens if you try? (SS can get confused if a
> file changes underfoot; at least, I've seen this introduce problems, but
> never fix them!)
>
>
>
> But *different* files, you say. Have you ever had the situation where
> the SAME file is corrupted again immediately afterwards? (That is, you
> copied it from backup, and it played OK before the scan, but not
> afterwards?) (See "Hmm. (no. 2)" below.)
>
>
>
> Dan has said that SlimServer should not be changing your source WMA
> files. This suggests that any corruption you are seeing is some kind of
> conflict between what is there and what SlimServer *thinks* is there.
> So looking at them through SlimServer is probably not a good way to
> check whether the files themselves have become corrupted. (However, you
> say that a corrupted file won't play in WMP either, which implies that
> the file really is corrupted, and not just SlimServer's view of it.)
>
> You mention an "ARTWORK" folder (for the first time). Is there really
> an ARTWORK folder on your hard drive, or do you mean the "Browse
> Artwork" page in SlimServer's web interface? If you mean the latter,
> then what happens when you go to the tracks via Browse Artist or Browse
> Album, and play them? (And what happens if you do this after a scan but
> before (or without) using Browse Artwork? It seems unlikely that the
> act of browsing by artwork could be the cause, but...) If they're not
> appearing properly under Browse Artist etc., how about looking for them
> with Browse Music Folder?
>
> (Hmm: once you find a corrupted file, try this: restore the file from
> your backup copy. Then - without doing a rescan - find it in SlimServer
> by using Browse Music Folder. Better? However, I've seen SS get very
> confused if I try to use Browse Music Folder to "update" existing
> tracks, rather than to add completely new ones; so I can't really
> recommend this.)
>
> The appearance of a "new" NO ALBUM "folder" (again, I suspect you mean
> in SlimServer's web interface, not on your hard drive) implies that SS
> is having trouble with the tags (or that the files really don't have
> any Album tag). Does this characterise all the corrupted files? (Do
> they always appear under Artwork / No Album, and are all (wma) files
> under there corrupted?)
>
> (I've just looked at Browse Artwork on my own system. I do indeed have
> a No Album folder there. It contains a number of .wav files (which
> don't have tags, so their appearance makes sense) - and one WMA file.
> Aha! I thought. But it plays OK. It's a brief piece of sample music
> (at 64kbps CBR) that probably came with some sound app I installed ages
> ago, and for some reason SS has picked it up from the "All
> Users\Documents\My Music\Sample Music" folder. Though it has no album,
> the other tags look OK (as seen by SS).)
>
> Sorry to be pedantic, but can you confirm that when you look at the
> tracks in Explorer (specifically, NOT via SlimServer's web interface),
> they have changed (size and/or modification time) on either side of the
> rescan? And are you certain that the actual files haven't changed
> before the rescan, by comparing them against the backup? But you've
> said that once copied from backup, they play OK, which implies that
> they haven't changed. Still, it's puzzling that it happens to
> different files each time.
>
> Hmm (no. 2): when you find a corrupted file, and restore it from backup
> then rescan, are you just restoring the corrupted files, or all your
> files? In other words, are files that weren't corrupted on one scan
> being corrupted on the next scan, even though they weren't copied or
> otherwise changed in between?
>
> On the other hand, if you are restoring ALL your files each time, and
> it turns out that some are subsequently corrupted at random, then I'd
> be suspicious about the copying process itself. (But just WMA files?
> Again, seems unlikely; though of course, if all you're copying around
> are WMA files, then it would be little surprise that only WMA files are
> being corrupted!)
>
> I wonder whether the scan is actually completing, or is dying before
> all your files have been processed. If some files are causing the scan
> to crash, then this could leave the SlimServer DB in a mess. (I had
> this happen because SS assumed that a particular WMA tag was unique for
> each file, and one of my WMA providers was breaking this. But that was
> fixed before 6.2.2.) One easy-to-spot symptom of this is if the web
> interface reports far fewer artists, albums or tracks than you expect
> (at the top of the Browse Artist page, for example).
>
> -- Brian
Under Server Settings / File Types, and check that "Windows Media -
Windows Media - (built-in)" is checked.
No, there is no ARTWORK folder. No, not all the files appear in
Artwork / No Album.
Sometimes the files change size after the rescan. Sometimes some of
the tag information is missing after the rescan. By the way... is
there a better wan to edit .wma tags other than Windows Media Player?
I have tried both restoring only the corrupted files and also all the
files of a particular album. I have tried both copying over the
exisiting files and removing the existing files prior to copying the
backup files to SS.
I copy both .wma and mp3 files. This problem is only with .wma files.
When replacing corrupted .wma files on the SS machine, I copy over my
LAN from the computer sitting next to the SS computer to it.
At this moment I am listening through SS some files that I just copyied
back to the SS machine from the backup machine because after my most
recent scan some of these album files (.wma) became corrupted. I have
not rescanned since copying the files to SS and they are playing just
fine.
SS doesn't say anything about the files, it just skips over them if
corrupted. It may play a bit of each but just skips over. Windows
Media Player on the other hand does indeed state that WMP cannot play
the file because it is corrupted.
--
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