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Playing Nows Delete for Unknown Reason
dichotomous1:
Hi,
I've had this issue for the past couple of years and not sure the cause. I curate a list of audio tracks to play for the day, drop em in playing now, plays fine but then random times, playback stops at the end of a track and all tracks in Playing Now disappear except for the last track played.
I've never been at the computer when this happens. It doesn't happen every day, but something like 40% of the time. I've not noticed any consistency other than it always occurs late in the day after playing for at least 4 hours.
I know I can recover the deleted track listing. I would like to know whats causing it.
Also, what's u[pp with the Recent Playing Now's smart playlist now updating on a regular basis?
Could it be the same deamon that alters the Volume even when your cursor isnt even near the slider?
J
PS, I'm running MC 25 on a late 2009 27" iMac. OS 10.13.6
RoderickGI:
Are your files on an external drive or a NAS?
Do you have Auto Import running in the background?
Do you have "Fix Broken Links" checked in Auto Import?
dichotomous1:
Yes, files are stored on a NAS (Synology)
Auto Import is not On
Fix Broken Links is On
MC version 25.0.128 (Reverted from MC 26 as the program would crash upon startup on both iMac and MacBook Pro)
I happened to be sitting at the comp when it just occurred. Attached is the last 4 pages of the log. Full log avail if needed.
RoderickGI:
Well, even with Auto Import off, I would guess if your NAS drives go to sleep (spin down) and MC tries to play the next track, which it tries to access before the current one finishes, then MC finds the file isn't available and removes it from Playing Now. MC then repeats the process for all remaining files in Playing Now, finds them all unavailable, and removes them from Playing Now.
You need to stop your NAS from spinning down drives so often, when it is regularly serving up files, if the above is the case. I suspect a NAS setting for that.
Normally MC does wait for a remote drive to spin up. But if Playing Now is already populated it may wait for a shorter time, or even expect the drive to be available, as it was when the files were added to Playing Now.
Confirmation of the above is that Recent Playing Now's Smartlist is updating regularly. I suspect that each time MC tries to access the NAS and can't, and so removes a file from Playing Now, it creates a Recent Playing Now record. How many has it been creating? Would the number match approximately the number of unplayed files in Playing Now?
JimH:
--- Quote from: RoderickGI on July 30, 2020, 01:09:20 am ---Well, even with Auto Import off, I would guess if your NAS drives go to sleep (spin down) and MC tries to play the next track, which it tries to access before the current one finishes, then MC finds the file isn't available and removes it from Playing Now. MC then repeats the process for all remaining files in Playing Now, finds them all unavailable, and removes them from Playing Now.
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I don't think that's the case. We'd see a lot of problems if it were.
It's possible it could happen if the files are completely unavailable.
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