egd;310003 Wrote: 
> I don't have MiP GUI running at all and haven't had the issues you're
> describing.

... and curiously enough, nor do I today!  Last night I quit the MIP
GUI and put the PC into hibernation. I woke it up again today, but
didn't restart the GUI. Sitting downstairs, I offered the wife a demo
of MIP in action, then realised as I made the mix that it might not
play... but I tried it anyway - and it worked fine.  As have others
since.

No idea why it didn't work at first yesterday, but works today. Like I
said, it's all about the chicken voodoo - certainly no mere mortal
intervention at work here!

> What do you stand to lose by blanking it and doing a clear and rescan?

An hour or two of my (listening) life! :-)  It was precisely that kind
of, "Well, let's just try..." that kept putting me off MIP at first
(and second, and third, ...)  IIRC, last time I blanked Music Folder I
lost all the artwork, and MIP *still* didn't work (mixes on playlists
only).

> What's changed since it last worked for you - new music, box rebooted
> etc?

Not rebooted, but was hibernated.  Might've added music and did a
new/changed scan, but am not sure if this was before or after I closed
the GUI.  I only know that umpteen attempts to play mixes failed, until
I (re)started the GUI on a hunch, at which point they started to be
playable. 

> Finally, are you running MiP headless/SC on Linux or Windows?  If it's
> Windows, I'm going to be controversial and recommend you consider Linux
> - one thing about Linux is things either work or they don't, and once
> working they keep working, there is no middle road.

Well, at the moment the PC that's acting as our SC server is a general
workhorse, and "has" to run Windows for umpteen reasons.  I've wondered
about getting another box to act as a dedicated SC server, and Linux
might be an option; but I have bad memories of how much work it took to
get Mandrake working on our old PC. Of course, things must've improved
considerably since then; but I haven't had the need or the inclination
to try again... yet.

-- Brian


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