Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Old playlists showing as empty after migration to pCP

2021-09-07 Thread Mellon
w3wilkes wrote: > I had heard this before too, but never experienced it. Wondering where > you saw the problem as there is no category to list all songs. Seems > like there might have been a all songs list way back when. I have looked > at the database using SQLite Expert Personal and verified

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] RPI ZERO W - wifi unstable

2021-09-07 Thread Mellon
pascal! wrote: > Hi, > I have RPI ZERO W - with piCore > piCorePlayer v7.0.0 | www v00011 | linux 5.4.83-pcpCore | piCore > v12.0pCP | Squeezelite v1.9.9-1386-pCP > And the WiFi goes down regurlarly and it is ok after the reboot for some > minutes. > My WiFi is quite good and I have another RPI

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Old playlists showing as empty after migration to pCP

2021-09-07 Thread Mellon
w3wilkes wrote: > I know there are those that don't think playlists work well in your root > music folder, but I have always had them there with no issue. I used to have my playlists folder under my main music folder, and I have a vague memory of that creating duplicate track entries in the

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Old playlists showing as empty after migration to pCP

2021-09-07 Thread Mellon
d6jg wrote: > Have a look at FreeFileSync. > > I’m not sure how you can sync playlists between Windows & Linux file > structures though but I can say that it’s easy to sync playlists between > 2 or more Linux based LMS servers. The trick is to always use the same > mnt point on each even if one

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Old playlists showing as empty after migration to pCP

2021-09-02 Thread Mellon
The problem was caused by the USB Mass Media Portable Device Sync Plug-In within Media Monkey (and a user who did not recognise some of its finer points) I maintain my main music database on my PC, getting metadata right in a temp folder in Media Monkey before moving it to the 'live' version of

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Old playlists showing as empty after migration to pCP

2021-09-02 Thread Mellon
d6jg wrote: > Again all looks ok > > When you did the find and replace edit of playlists what software did > you use? > > What happens if you navigate to a track that doesn’t play from within > playlist and play it manually? I assume it plays correctly Just used Windows Notepad with the Find

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Old playlists showing as empty after migration to pCP

2021-08-31 Thread Mellon
d6jg wrote: > Everything “looks” correct but what are the permissions of the folders > rather than the files that the first 2 examples are in - one down from > Easy Listening Both slightly different from the actual files, but no different from each other 35634 35635

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Old playlists showing as empty after migration to pCP

2021-08-29 Thread Mellon
also, in case it is of any use whatsoever, the file permissions of the first two files in the first playlist in the examples above, one which shows up in the playlist and one which doesn't 35615 35616 +---+ |Filename:

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Old playlists showing as empty after migration to pCP

2021-08-29 Thread Mellon
d6jg wrote: > Post an extract of 2 playlists > 1 working, 1 not working and if you can a screenshot showing their file > permissions this is an example of part of 1 playlist where some tracks appear and some do not (working in bold):

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Old playlists showing as empty after migration to pCP

2021-08-24 Thread Mellon
still having the same issue, although I have noticed that some of the original playlists have a few of the playlist entries visible. I thought perhaps I had subsequently played them, not via a playlist, and that was why these few were visible, but I tested this by playing a song which is in one

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] PiCorePlayer can't connect to repositories

2021-07-02 Thread Mellon
GardenGate wrote: > I *think* the only difference between when I originally setup the two > PiCorePlayers I have and now is I originally had a Netgear Nighthawk > router and now have switched to a Netgear Orbi setup. Neither > PiCorePlayers - both one I had successfully setup before and one

[SlimDevices: Unix] Old playlists showing as empty after migration to pCP

2021-07-01 Thread Mellon
When I moved from LMS on my WHS1 to my Synology NAS, I had to manually amend (find/replace) all of my playlists due to the different file structure. I've now had to move from Synology to PiCore. Find and replace does not seem to work. All my old playlists are there, but empty. A new playlist