On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 15:26 -0800, RuefulR wrote:
> Increasingly I'm under the impression that Linux, Slimserver, and me
> make for a poor combination.

I can't help with your last problem, but lets see if we can do some
problem isolation on your first one.

>   My current problem or problems:
> 
> 1, My playlists are all .m3u files in a directory called /playlists on
> a FAT32 volume. Put the full path--/mnt/win/music/playlists--as the
> place Slimserver should look for playlists, but it doesn't find them. 
> All of these files were created using Foobar on a machine running
> Windows XP, and Slimserver recognized them on that machine.

Since .m3u files are very small, can you try copying them
to a ext2 or ext3 directory on the same box as the slimserver?
The files are just text files. copy some, point to them.
Try that, and see if anything changes.


> 2. Because I want artists sorted alphabetically by last name but
> displaying with full name in correct order, I have fields that look
> like:
> ARTIST=John Coltrane ;McCoy Tyner ;...
> ARTISTSORT=ColtraneJohn ;TynerMcCoy ;...
> This used to work well under 6.1.1 on my Windows machine and I think
> initially on my Linux set up.  But now the Artists appear in an
> apparently random order when browsing, and searc

Try using sqlitebrowser on your database and see what's in the data.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/sqlitebrowser/

-- 
Pat
http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html


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