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Title: Songs not playing in MediaCenter
Post by: lawe on May 27, 2014, 01:56:56 pm

Hi,
I´ve got several albums with one or more songs (Flac APE and Wav) that MediaCenter latest version is just skipping. It´s plays ok in other playesr VLC for example. I´ve tested the files getting skipped with dBPoweramp Test Conversion and Monkys Audio Verify passed without any errors. The import to MediaCenter went Ok no errors.

Regards Lars

Title: Re: Songs not playing in MediaCenter
Post by: glynor on May 28, 2014, 06:46:39 am

Sounds like you somehow got a Playback Range set on the files in question.

Title: Re: Songs not playing in MediaCenter
Post by: lawe on May 28, 2014, 08:35:58 am

Thanx a bunch! I finally located it through Tag end show every column. My problem is that I have about 2800 albums and that makes maybe 40 0000 songs. Should there ever be a need for a "Playback Range" value to be present?

If not is there a way to automate the removal of all values?

Regards Lars

Title: Re: Songs not playing in MediaCenter
Post by: connersw on May 28, 2014, 11:32:38 am

You can just sort by clicking on the Playback Range Column and choose Sort All Files by Playback Range so that any Files with a value come to the top.  Select the Files you want to change, hit F2, and then Delete.  The Playback Range will then be cleared.
 
Alternatively, if you want massive automation, you could download MrC's pscriptor:  http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=85990.0

Run command:

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perl pscriptor.pl -c pscriptor-config.txt -f "Playback Range" -E RandomPlaybackRange -a clear

Title: Re: Songs not playing in MediaCenter
Post by: MrC on May 28, 2014, 11:35:14 am

You can clear Playback Range directly in MC, by the way.  Select all the files, and clear the tag either in the Tag Action Window, or using in-cell editing.

Title: Re: Songs not playing in MediaCenter
Post by: connersw on May 28, 2014, 11:37:46 am

MrC likes to type while I'm editing.  He's fast.

Title: Re: Songs not playing in MediaCenter
Post by: lawe on May 28, 2014, 12:59:00 pm

Thanx a lot for your support, I´m sure I´ll fix this with your solutions.

Btw do you know why random files have a Playback Range?

Regards Lars

Title: Re: Songs not playing in MediaCenter
Post by: MrC on May 28, 2014, 01:12:07 pm

If it happened once, it might have been accidental user error.  If it keeps happening, then I'd start to suspect Library corruption.

Title: Re: Songs not playing in MediaCenter
Post by: lawe on May 28, 2014, 03:06:06 pm

I´ve seen it happen for over a year but I often listen to albums I don´t know by heart, and often I don´t Point Mark the screen,  so I wouldn´t notice a skipped song in the middle of an album. A novice as I am is there any info about "Playback Range" in a Cue sheet or a RIP by other applications than JRiver IE is a general proble or a JRiver problem?

Title: Re: Songs not playing in MediaCenter
Post by: glynor on May 28, 2014, 04:31:02 pm

I strongly suspect you somehow set it accidentally manually.  This isn't something that I think can get set automatically by anything, though if so, it might be in a CUE sheet somehow.  If it comes back, then we can investigate that.  For now, assume you did it by accident when meddling places you shouldn't have been meddling.

It is super-simple to clear, as MrC explained above, but I'll try again.  Do this:

1. Go to any View in MC where you can see all of your Audio Files.
2. Control-A to select them all.
3. In the Tag Action Window, find the Playback Range tag.
4. If it says "Varies", select it, and delete the contents.
5. Hit Enter.  MC will complain that it is going to apply the tagging change to a crapload of files.  Say OK.

Drink a beer.  You're done.

The Playback Range tag is a feature.  It allows you to specify that for a particular track, you only want it to play from timecode X to timecode Y.  If you did not intentionally set this kind of restriction on any of your files, you can remove it globally without issue.

Title: Re: Songs not playing in MediaCenter
Post by: lawe on May 29, 2014, 02:52:45 am

Thanx for you support!

I´ve cleard alla files now.