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 my music. A Synology Drive client task would then pick up anything new or changed to my Synology NAS where LMS would use that version to play music or playlists. All good for years. Synology pull the plug on LMS and I invest in a Pi, so I am looking for a way to replicate my previous workflow. I can't find anything obviously similar to the Drive client on a Pi, so the closest I can find is to run the USB Mass Media Plug In in Media Monkey which will sync MM to my Pi in a similar way as iTunes to an iPod (it seems to me). I just wanted it to duplicate what was on my main PC to the Pi, but I have not been able to achieve that. Within that Plug In, under Options>File Locations>Sync Files to>Music, it is set to \Music\<Genre>\<Album Artist>\<Album>\<Track#:2> - <Title> This is the problem. I compared the same track in a working and non-working playlist and found this: #EXTURL:file:///mnt/LMSfiles/music/Music/Easy%20Listening/The%20Cranberries/Everybody%20Else%20Is%20Doing%20It,%20So%20Why%20Can%27t%20We/02%20-%20Dreams.mp3 #EXTINF:272,Dreams /mnt/LMSfiles/music/Music/Easy Listening/The Cranberries/Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We/02 - Dreams.mp3 #EXTURL:file:///mnt/LMSfiles/music/Music/Easy%20Listening/The%20Cranberries/Everybody%20Else%20Is%20Doing%20It,%20So%20Why%20Can%27t%20We/02%20Dreams.mp3 #EXTINF:272,Dreams /mnt/LMSfiles/music/Music/Easy Listening/The Cranberries/Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We/02 Dreams.mp3 It is still 02 Dreams.mp3 on my main PC, and also, still backed up on the NAS, but when it was synched by that Plug In, it arrived on the Pi as 02 - Dreams.mp3, so any playlist entry that referred to 02 - Dreams.mp3 does not show up, because it does not exist on the Pi. There is every chance that I configured this setting myself when trying to configure the plug in to run as expected, but I spent a long time without success to just get the plug in to replicate one version to another and it might have been one of those bleary eyed decisions which haven't been properly thought through. Huge thanks to *d6jg* for his efforts, as it was some of his questions which lead me to the eventual solution. At least I know what I am looking for now and will have a think about the best way to fix it. If anyone has experience of a simpler way of getting my music replicated to the Pi in a similar way to what I had before, I would be happy to hear of it. Apologies for the verbose response, but its just in case someone in the future (or present) stumbles down the same path. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mellon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=69383 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114789 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
