pipspeak;249495 Wrote: > I'm having a problem with playlists. Despite deleting various playlists > from my HDD and doing a full rescan of my entire library, the > slimserver library still identifies all the old playlists that were > deleted. > > In addition, if I ever make any modifications to a playlist (such as > deleting the odd track) then the next time I access the playlist > through slimserver it show up as "modified" and completely empty. This > is despite the fact I DID NOT svae the playlist again after my minor > on-the-fly mods last time and despit the fact that the playlist works > fine in other music apps. > > Why is slimserver finding it so hard to deal with playlists? And how > can I "reset" the library so it's no longer seeing these phantom lists? > Thanks.
A few more details please? What OS are you running, what version of Slimserver, is your music stored on the same hard disk as Slimserver or via a network drive? Also, are you using ITunes or MusicIP to populate your Slimserver database? Couple of immediate thoughts - assume you have tried doing a playlist only rescan with the same results? Also assume that you have tried searching your entire system for any copies or shortcuts to the deleted playlists with no luck? Have you tried deleting the cache directory and allowing Slimserver to build a complete new database (how you do this will depend on which OS you are using)? My wild stab in the dark would be that you have two issues - invalid links somewhere on your hard drive to playlists that you have deleted, and there is something about the way you are modifing the playlists which Slimserver doesn't like - for example, Slimserver requires absolute playlist paths, not relative. If you open up the playlists in a text editor like Wordpad, what is the file path? Is it the same as the file path for your music folder as Slimserver / SqueezeCenter sees it? If the playlist doesn't reference your files the same way that Slimserver does (i.e. it says d:/Music/Song.mp3 and Slimserver sees your library as //Media/Music/Song.mp3, they won't play. If that is the problem, just manually edit the playlists (find and replace) to change the file path. -- Siduhe ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Siduhe's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=723 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41123 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
