I'm on RD v2.10.3 from Tryphon running Linux Mint 17 (no .x update) on
my personal Asus Zen notebook with /var/snd on an external USB drive.
This has been running for nearly 3 years with no problems until today.
My /var/snd and database is the master for our station as I do all the
production work, and another computer is used for actual playout, which
is a clone of my /var/snd and RD database.

  One of the things I do is edit fade-out levels and make adjustments to
music tracks in the library.  My usual method is to copy the originally
imported track and paste it to a new cut (Cut 002) and mark that as the
untouched original in the "Cut Info".  Then I weight it "0" so it never
plays, but is available if there ever should be a reason to return to
the original, untouched track.

  Today, however, when I pasted the copied track to the new cut, it did
not seem to paste.  Track length was "00.0" and when I clicked on "Edit
Markers", a dialog appeared that says, "No audio present in the cut."
This problem is repeatable with other carts, but no problems importing
new tracks to carts--just this copy and paste problem.

  There IS audio, as it plays in the preview player in the "Cut Info"
button.  And a file manager shows cut 002 with a file size identical to
cut 001 in /var/snd.  Cut 002 also imports and plays in Audacity.  It
will NOT play in RDAirplay, which also sees it as a 'no audio present'
track, and skips it.

  Anybody have any clues as to what the problem might be?

  This isn't exactly an on-air machine and is on the Internet, so I do
Mint updates, but the problem has appeared suddenly when I have not done
a Mint update for weeks.  I did have a power failure a few days ago, and
the /var/snd USB drive is not on a UPS (the notebook is), but such
outages have not caused problems in the past.  The power outage occurred
while a log was being generated, however, so /var/snd was not available
and the log generation seemed to stop.  After power resumed, I started
the log generation over, and that log seems fine.

  Any ideas appreciated.

--Chuck W.

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