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I have been using the Tivo Server with MC for ages, and it has generally worked great.


However, I just went to play a playlist last night, and the Tivo responds "This folder does not contain any playable music". 

Any playlist or playlist group I try has the same effect.  These are playlists that all worked before thru Tivo.

If I navigate thru Disk location, I can play any music file just fine.

I am running the newest public build of MC 12....but I haven't used the Tivo to stream for a month of so, so I'm not sure when this may have happened.

Any ideas?

[John Gateley]

I'll take a look -- j

[John Gateley]

It's working here. What kind of music (ape? mp3?) is in the playlist and what are your conversion settings?

j

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It was a mix of types.....FLAC, APE, MP3..... I have it set to convert to 320 MP3 if necessary.  I'll dig into it some more at home now that I know it should be working.

I have playlists grouped by Theme (random summer music, slow songs), Bands (all REM albums, best Pearl Jam covers, etc), and more.... None of these seemed to work. That is why I thought one of the changes to MC in recent beta versions might have fouled up my playlists for Tivo..... But if this is not the case, I'll see what I can discover.

Thanks for taking the time to check this out.

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I figured out what the problem was - Thought it might be of interest to you John (or others)

....So I was confounded.  I had all kinds of playlists that used to work just fine with all different types of music.  I seemed to have done nothing differently, yet Tivo stubbornly always reported "This Folder Contains No Playable Music" whenever I selected "Playlists".  Selecting by disk location or scheme worked fine on Tivo, and the playlists worked fine on my PC.

...as I fiddled around creating new playlists to see if a fresh playlist would be recognized, I noticed something odd in the tree.  After all of my playlist groups and playlists, I had one more green playlist icon without a name.

This was the culprit.

It was an empty playlist without a name (Blank).  I'm guessing I accidentially clicked something to create a playlist, and never put anything in it (or deleted it).  So it just sat there as an empty playlist in the tree, not seeming to impact anything.....until I used the Tivo.  Once I deleted the playlist, I restarted MC (to try and force it to refresh for Tivo), then navigated to Playlists.  It gave me an Error 3-4-5 (I believe that was the number)..... I tried again right away and everything showed up and worked fine.

All is now well - that one pesky playlist seemed to be the root of all evil.  Weird.

[John Gateley]

Very strange! I'll try to reproduce this here and if I can, I may be able to fix it...

Thanks very much for the info

j