Hi all,
At the end of my wits here, please help.
Editing data on many many albums .flac files (like, album name, album artist, composer, orchestra, soloists, release date, etc etc), want to save the library info I'm entering to the files (tags).
The issue: for some albums I'm able to do this no problem; for some -- no matter what I do, JRiver either throws an error ("unable to do make sure it exists/is not opened by other program/is writable/blah blah") or just doesn't do it without throwing an error (like, status "finished" -- tags unchanged).
The setup:
* media files are on a Debian-based NAS, shared via CIFS/SMB;
* instance of Media Center/Media Server on an Ubuntu 22.04 VM on the same NAS; (why? because the NAS is in the closet, and always on);
* to edit/tag, I open a spice remote desktop session into the VM
* no firewalls between the clients in the subnet;
I thought inititally that maybe this is related with the SMB3 server signing that I had to turn on at some point (no more guest access, thanks Win 11 clients...) -- the media folders on the NAS were initially exposed to the VM via fstab mount line; then I added explicit user/password pair for SAMBA share access; then I changed it to the GUI-based folder mount... in all cases, I could access/read/write to the folders in question.
Strange detail: the albums that had their tags successfully updated/written into files, had much more entries in the tag dump section; the files that refused to update, had much less.
Before ppl start with the "motherhood statement"-type advice:
* yes, the permission seem fine: media folders are visible/accesible/writable from the VM (and from elswhere on the subnet);
* no, there are no media files open elsewhere: I shut down all other instances of MC elsewhere on the network, and checked SAMBA status -- no sessions/files left hanging open;
* the set is 50 CDs that I ripped following the same process over several days: ExactAudioCopy rip on my Windows PC, then copy the folder with tha album to the shared media folder;
* JRiver successfully saves tags to some albums in the set but noth others, and there is no rhyme or reason to it;
* I turned logging on -- nothing of a kind is reflected there; when JRiver throws an error, the message says "this has been copied to the clipboard" -- but there is nothing in the clipboard.
Looking for suggestions.
